This accession contains one compact disk of Godwin’s writing The Days were kinda like that The nights I don’t remember.

The records in the Ted Godwin Fonds consist mainly of correspondence between
himself and friends, including the Regina Five, and other business contacts. Also included are exhibition
catalogues, invitations to gallery openings for his and other artists shows; newspaper clippings about
himself and other artists, project correspondence, futuristic, and other designs created specially for
friends as well as correspondence regarding his wilderness concerns, Alcoholics Anonymous, donations,
and loans of artwork. Manuscripts and other correspondence pertaining to the Lower Bow publication
and exhibition; personal, travel and other memorabilia; as well as minutes and agendas for the Calgary
Allied Arts Foundation meetings can also be found. Financial information and inventory records for Hiloac
Enterprises and the Hard Art Moving and Storage Company as well as photographs, slides and
videotapes are also present. There is a list that identifies some of the correspondents and describes their relationship with Ted Godwin. Researchers should see the University Archivist for further information.

Ted Godwin papers are original art works, financial records, general files covering a broad
range of subjects, photographs, art publications, slides, tapes and videotapes.

The records in this collection consist mainly of the travel documents of Ted and Phyllis Godwin and a large amount of audio visual material including 227 photographs, 15 audio cassettes, 4625 slides, 47 videotapes, 2 negatives 34 floppy disks, compact disks and digital recording tapes, two 8mm video cassettes and 31 digital video cassettes are also present. The date range in the collection is from 1963-2009, a great amount being from 1980s and 90s.

This small accession is comprised of two publications, the first is an exhibition catalogue: Ted Godwin The Regina Five Years 1957-1967, the exhibition was organized by the Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary in 2008 and was curated by Ann Davis. This is a signed copy of the catalogue from Ted Godwin to Shelley Sweeney, University of Regina Archivist from 1983 to 1998. Ted had inscribed both publications with personal notes to Ms. Sweeney: “Shelley, may the road be straight, the wind at your back, and [in] heaven a half hour before the devil
knows you’re dead. Ted”. The second publication, The Studio Handbook for Working Artists, is also
inscribed with a note from Ted to Shelley: “Shelley, We go this one right, Ted.”