Jeff Glassman Papers, 1967-2006 | University of Illinois Archives

Papers of Jeff Glassman (1949-), (LAS, Individual Plan of Study, Performing Arts and Experimental Composition, 1973).  Includes articles, correspondence, mailings, notes, photographs, programs, writings and other material from Glassman’s extensive career as a mime, educator, and performing artist.  Some material dates from his time at the University of Illinois, where he studied cybernetics and experimental music with Herbert and Marianne Brün and Heinz von Foerster, mime under Claude Kipnis, and kabuki under Professor Shozo Sato.  In addition to his work in the arts and cybernetics, he also briefly worked with the Anasazi Origins Project.

Additional items relate to the United Mime Workers, a mime troupe co-founded by Glassman, Deborah Langerman, and Bob Feldman, which performed from the early 1970s to 1986.

Other material relates to Glassman’s involvement in arts and other organizations, including the Alliance for Cultural Democracy, the American Society for Cybernetics, the Champaign County Consortium for the Cultural Arts (CCCCA), the Performers’ Workshop Ensemble, and the Summer School for Designing Society.

Also includes cassette tapes of Professor Herbert Brün’s seminars and compositions, meetings of the Champaign County Consortium for the Cultural Arts, and performances by Glassman (including 1988’s “Self-Styled Communist” and the Performers’ Workshop Ensemble (“Imperial Fish Emporium,” 1988).

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