LVAC News isn't the Lakeshore Village Artists' Co-op's first newsletter.
Two others were published during the co-op's early years: the magazine-format Village Tingler, which had a run of three bimonthly issues in 1995, and The Lakeshore Village Artists' Co-op Newsletter, which published weekly from February 1999 until February 2000.
I've spent a lot of time with these publications, which have been carefully preserved by LVAC's office staff, and they've given me a sense of what it was like to live and work at LVAC in its first decade. Film groups! Playreading workshops! Life drawing sessions! Parties! And co-op committees galore.
The newsletters also bear traces of LVAC's members and their work. Issue 1 of The Village Tingler is full of them: illustrations by Djordje Djordjevic and Kenneth Fuentes; poems by Mario Pietrantoni; photographs by Istvan Resz and Kil-Young Yoo; Bill Buzádi's original LVAC logo; and a feature article by editor Krystyna Hunt that tells the story of the co-op's creation, itself now a historical artifact.
I've digitized some of these works and hope to scan more of the issues over time. You can click on each image in the web gallery to view larger versions.
