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Interviewee:

Harris, Lyle Ashton, 1965-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Names:

American Academy in Rome -- Students  Search this

California Institute of the Arts -- Students  Search this

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project  Search this

Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) -- Students  Search this

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-  Search this

Barton, Nancy, (Artist)  Search this

Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988  Search this

Butler, Cornelia H.  Search this

Carby, Hazel V.  Search this

Collier, Jim  Search this

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.  Search this

Geer, Tommy  Search this

Goldin, Nan, 1953-  Search this

Gonzalez-Torres, Felix, 1957-1996  Search this

Gray, Todd, 1954-  Search this

Grayson, John, 1943-  Search this

Hemphill, Essex  Search this

Julien, Isaac  Search this

Lord, Catherine, 1949-  Search this

Mapplethorpe, Robert  Search this

Mays, Vickie M.  Search this

O'Dench, Ellen  Search this

O'Meally, Jackie  Search this

O'Meally, Robert G., 1948-  Search this

Riggs, Marlon T.  Search this

Seeley, J.  Search this

Sekula, Allan  Search this

Tate, Greg  Search this

Tilton, Jack  Search this

Watson, Simon  Search this

Wilson, Millie  Search this

Woodman, Francesca, 1958-1981  Search this

Extent:

6 Items (Sound recording: 6 sound files (8 hr., 6 min.), digital, wav)

95 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

England -- London -- Description and Travel

Ghana -- Description and Travel

Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Description and Travel

New York (N.Y.) -- Description and Travel

Tanzania -- Description and Travel

Date:

2017 March 27-29

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Lyle Ashton Harris, conducted 2017 March 27 and 29, by Alex Fialho, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Harris's studio and home in New York, New York.

Harris speaks of his childhood in the Bronx; his family's influence on his race-consciousness; living in Tanzania for two years as a child and the effects on his understanding of race and sexuality; his grandfather's extensive photographic archive; contact with the South African diaspora through his step-father; attending Wesleyan University; formative experiences in London, Amsterdam, and New York in the mid-1980s; his education and development as a photographer; attending CalArts and encountering West Coast AIDS activism; encountering systemic racism in Los Angeles; close friendships with Marlon Riggs and Essex Hemphill; exhibitions of his work in New York in the early 1990s; the production of his Ektachrome Archive and his impulse to photograph daily life; his work on the Black Community AIDS Research and Education (Black C.A.R.E.) project in Los Angeles; participating in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program; being diagnosed with HIV and remaining asymptomatic; attending the Dia Black Popular Culture Conference in 1992; photographing and mounting "The Good Life" in 1994 and "The Watering Hole" in 1996; issues of blackness and queerness in his photographic work; his residency at the American Academy in Rome in 2000; moving to Accra, Ghana for seven years in 2005; his pedagogy as an art professor; his thoughts on the lack of voices of color in the Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic Oral History Project and in the larger power structures of the art world; and his hope that his artistic legacy will be evaluated in its proper context. Harris also recalls Jackie and Robert O'Meally, Jay Seeley, Ellen O'Dench, Francesca Woodman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jim Collier, Robert Mapplethorpe, Allan Sekula, Hazel Carby, Isaac Julien, Catherine Lord, Millie Wilson, Todd Gray, John Grayson, Tommy Gear, Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Barton, Vickie Mays, Connie Butler, Greg Tate, Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, Nan Goldin, Jack Tilton, Simon Watson, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Lyle Ashton Harris (1965- ) is an artist who works in video, photography, and performance in New York, New York. Alex Fialho (1989- ) is a curator and arts writer and works as Programs Director for Visual AIDS in New York, New York.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Occupation:

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Video artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

AIDS activists  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Racism  Search this

African American artists  Search this

Gay artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.harris17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-harris17

Creator:

DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997  Search this

Extent:

79 Boxes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

circa 1828-1980

Summary:

Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age.

Series 3: African-American Music, contains circa 7,800 pieces of sheet music and folios dating from the 1820s to the 1980s; most of the material dates from after 1890.

An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.

Scope and Contents note:

The African-American series contains circa 7,800 pieces of sheet music and folios dating from the 1820s to the 1980s; most of the material dates from after 1890. Many of the pieces were composed or performed by Afro-American musicians; other pieces were created by white musicians using black musical styles (for example Joseph Lamb's classic ragtime compositions). A large part of the series consists of songs about African-Americans (minstrel show songs), often written in dialect and usually filled with negative stereotypes. Most, but not all, of the composers of this material were white. Subseries 3.1-3.7 are organized by musical genre and arranged by the chronological first appearance of the genre in American popular culture. The last subseries, 3.8, is a composer/performer aggregation including many musical genres but only African-American musicians.

The DeVincent Collection holds a wealth of ragtime material which forms an important part of series 3. There are approximately 530 items of vocal ragtime and approximately 2,800 instrumental ragtime items. The principle composers of ragtime have separate folders and are indexed by name (however, some of their material may be in the general ragtime folders). One of the strengths of the DeVincent ragtime file is its diversity and inclusion of lesser-known figures. Sam DeVincent built the ragtime section with a broad conception of the genre, a conception in keeping with the thinking of the time. Characteristic two-steps, syncopated marches, and some dances from the ragtime dance craze (turkey trots, a few tangos, etc.) are included in the general file indicating the widespread infusion of ragtime rhythms into American popular music during the early 20th century.

A large part of series 3 is organized and indexed by composer or performer; subseries 3.8 is solely organized this way. African-American composers who wrote only ragtime music, such as Scott Joplin, have been kept in subseries 3.6, "ragtime composers and publishers," which includes both black and white musicians.

The jazz holdings in subseries 3.7, "blues and jazz music," are quite small; most of the items are about jazz rather than the creations of jazz musicians. DeVincent organized most of his jazz materials by composer and performer. African-American jazz musicians have been incorporated into subseries 3.8. White jazz musicians are not in series 3. For help in locating jazz material in the DeVincent Collection, see the appendix "Finding Aid to Jazz Sheet Music and Ephemera."

There are four indexes in this register. The first two are for series 3: a Topical Index and a Select Name and Title Index . Following are the two composite indexes which combine the indexes of series 1, 2, and 3. These composite indexes are an important cross-reference tool.

For example, someone doing research on James Reese Europe would naturally start reading the register for series 3. The index to series 3 lists folder 3.8 BB under the heading for Europe. In the composite index, we learn that folder 2.4 XX also has a composition by Europe. Sam DeVincent placed in the Armed Forces file a piece by Europe that he wrote while serving in the Army as director of the 369th Hellfighters Band.

This series is arranged in the following subseries: 3:1 Minstrel Show and Blackface Entertainers; 3:2 Uncle Tom's Cabin; 3:3 African-American Folk-song and Spirituals; 3:4 Songs about African-American/Vocal Ragtime; 3:5 Instrumental and Ragtime Music; 3:6 Ragtime Composers and Publishers; 3:7 Blues and Jazz Music; 3:8 Composers and Performers.

Arrangement note:

Arranged in 9 subseries.

3.1: Minstrel Shows and Blackface Entertainers

3.2: Uncle Tom's Cabin

3.3: African-American Folk-songs and Spirituals

3.4: Songs about African-American/Vocal Ragtime

3.5: Instrumental and Ragtime Music

3.6: Ragtime Composers and Publishers

3.7: Blues and Jazz Music

3.8: Composers and Performers

3.9: Ephemera

Materials in Other Organizations:

Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

This collection contains duplicates of materials in the Smithsonian collection, as well as materials acquired by Mr. DeVincent after the donation to the Smithsonian. The phonograph records described above were transferred to the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Materials in the Archives Center, National Museum of American History:

Donald J. Stubblebine Collection of Musical Theater and Motion Picture Sheet Music and Reference Material, 1843-2010 (AC1211)

Forms Part Of:

Series 3: African-American Music forms part of the Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music .

An ongoing, updated list of DeVincent topical series is available via the Smithsonian finding aid portal.

Provenance:

This collection was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution in 1988 from Sam and Nancy Lee DeVincent.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Citation:

The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0300.S03

See more items in:

Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 3: African-American Music

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0300-s03

Creator:

Anacostia Museum  Search this

Names:

Anacostia Community Museum  Search this

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum  Search this

X, Malcolm, 1925-1965  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum  Search this

Walker Art Center  Search this

Extent:

1 Video recording (VHS)

Culture:

African American  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Video recordings

Place:

Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Washington (D.C.)

United States

Date:

1994

Scope and Contents:

Brother Benjamin Karim shared insights about his personal friend and minister Malcolm X, under whom he served as an assistant minister in the Nation of Islam. After the gallery talk, Karim led the group on a tour through the exhibition 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon.'

Gallery talk and Exhibition tour. Related to exhibition 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon.' Dated 19940412.

Biographical / Historical:

'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon' examined Malcolm X as a historical figure through writings, speeches, and photographs; as the inspiration for representational and abstract art; and as a symbol for popular culture merchandise. The exhibition was held at the Anacostia Museum from April 3, 1994 - June 5, 1994.

Collection Restrictions:

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.

Topic:

African Americans  Search this

Museum exhibits  Search this

Genre/Form:

Video recordings

Citation:

Remembering Malcolm by Benjamin Karim, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

ACMA.03-035, Item ACMA AV002049

See more items in:

Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon Exhibition Records

Archival Repository:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-acma-03-035-ref508

Creator:

Anacostia Museum  Search this

Names:

Anacostia Community Museum  Search this

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum  Search this

X, Malcolm, 1925-1965  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum  Search this

Walker Art Center  Search this

Extent:

2 Video recordings (VHS)

Culture:

African American  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Video recordings

Place:

Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Washington (D.C.)

United States

Date:

1994

Scope and Contents:

During a docent training session for the exhibition 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon,' Brother Benjamin Karim spoke about Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam.

Docent training. Related to exhibition 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon.' Dated 19940305.

Biographical / Historical:

Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon examined Malcolm X as a historical figure through writings, speeches, and photographs; as the inspiration for representational and abstract art; and as a symbol for popular culture merchandise. The exhibition was held at the Anacostia Museum from April 3, 1994 - June 5, 1994.

Local Numbers:

ACMA AV002035

Collection Restrictions:

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.

Topic:

African Americans  Search this

Islam  Search this

Museum exhibits  Search this

Genre/Form:

Video recordings

Citation:

Docent Training for 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon,' Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

ACMA.03-035, Item ACMA AV002036

See more items in:

Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon Exhibition Records

Archival Repository:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-acma-03-035-ref509

Creator:

Anacostia Museum  Search this

Names:

Anacostia Community Museum  Search this

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum  Search this

X, Malcolm, 1925-1965  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum  Search this

Walker Art Center  Search this

Extent:

1 Video recording (VHS)

Culture:

African American  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Video recordings

Place:

Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Washington (D.C.)

United States

Date:

1994

Scope and Contents:

Art historian and writer Kellie Jones, formerly of The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Broida Museum, led a tour of the 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon' exhibition, which she organized for the Walker Art Center.

Exhibition Tour. Related to exhibition 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon.' Dated 19940416.

Biographical / Historical:

'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon' examined Malcolm X as a historical figure through writings, speeches, and photographs; as the inspiration for representational and abstract art; and as a symbol for popular culture merchandise. The exhibition was held at the Anacostia Museum from April 3, 1994 - June 5, 1994.

Collection Restrictions:

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.

Topic:

African Americans  Search this

Museum exhibits  Search this

Genre/Form:

Video recordings

Citation:

Curator's Exhibition Tour for 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon,' Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

ACMA.03-035, Item ACMA AV002050

See more items in:

Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon Exhibition Records

Archival Repository:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-acma-03-035-ref510

Creator:

Anacostia Museum  Search this

Names:

Anacostia Community Museum  Search this

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum  Search this

X, Malcolm, 1925-1965  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum  Search this

Walker Art Center  Search this

Extent:

1 Video recording (VHS)

Culture:

African American  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Video recordings

Place:

Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Washington (D.C.)

United States

Date:

1994

Scope and Contents:

Robert Hall talked to a group of students about Malcolm X's life, and then led them on a tour of the exhibition 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon.'

Education program with exhibition tour. Related to exhibition 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon.' Dated 19940407.

Biographical / Historical:

'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon' examined Malcolm X as a historical figure through writings, speeches, and photographs; as the inspiration for representational and abstract art; and as a symbol for popular culture merchandise. The exhibition was held at the Anacostia Museum from April 3, 1994 - June 5, 1994.

Collection Restrictions:

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.

Topic:

African Americans  Search this

Museum exhibits  Search this

Education -- Museums  Search this

Students  Search this

Genre/Form:

Video recordings

Citation:

Exhibition Tour of 'Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon,' Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

ACMA.03-035, Item ACMA AV002051

See more items in:

Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon Exhibition Records

Archival Repository:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-acma-03-035-ref511

Interviewee:

Saul, Peter, 1934-  Search this

Interviewer:

Richards, Judith Olch, 1947-  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)15737

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)286036

AAA_collcode_saul09

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_286036

Interviewee:

Nagle, Ron, 1939-  Search this

Interviewer:

Berkson, Bill, 1939-2016  Search this

Subject:

Voulkos, Peter  Search this

San Francisco State University  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

Ceramics -- Study and teaching  Search this

Ceramics -- Technique  Search this

Ceramicists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews  Search this

Jewelry making  Search this

Beat generation  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13019

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)242177

AAA_collcode_nagle03

Theme:

Craft

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_242177

Interviewee:

Frimkess, Michael, 1937-  Search this

Interviewer:

Frimkess, Magdalena Suarez  Search this

Subject:

Rosen, Clara  Search this

Voulkos, Peter  Search this

Clay Art Center  Search this

University of California, Berkeley. History of Art Dept.  Search this

Otis Art Institute  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching -- Chile  Search this

Potters -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Pottery -- Study and teaching -- United States.  Search this

Ceramicists -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13128

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)226187

AAA_collcode_frimke01

Theme:

Craft

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_226187

Interviewee:

Statsinger, Evelyn, 1927-2016  Search this

Interviewer:

Silverman, Lanny  Search this

Names:

Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project  Search this

Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource  Search this

Extent:

3 Items (Sound recording, master: 3 sound files (3 hr., 31 min.), digital, wav)

106 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2015 May 11-13

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Evelyn Statsinger, conducted 2015 May 11-13, by Lanny Silverman, for the Archives of American Art's Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project, at Statsinger's studio in Chicago, Illinois.

Statsinger speaks of studying at the High School of Museum and Arts in New York, the Art Students League, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; showing at Chicago galleries, including Frumkin, Artemisia, Kovler, and Jan Cicero; how her work fits in with contemporary Chicago artists, including Monster Roster and Imagists; the use of ambiguity in her work; how her travels in Japan and Mexico influenced her style; Japanese theater; and contemporary art and popular culture. Statsinger also recalls Ossip Zadkine, Katherine Kuh, Carl Schniewind, Mies van der Rohe, Leon Golub, Kathleen Blackshear, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Interviewee Evelyn Statsinger (1927-2016) was a painter in Chicago, Illinois. Interviewer Lanny Silverman (1947- ) is a curator at the Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Restrictions:

This transcript is open for research. Access to the entire recording is restricted. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Painters -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Women artists -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Identifier:

AAA.statsi15

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-statsi15

Interviewee:

Ault, Julie  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore  Search this

Names:

Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

National Endowment for the Arts  Search this

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project  Search this

Alderfer, Hannah  Search this

Alexander, Vikky, 1959-  Search this

Ashford, Doug  Search this

Beck, Martin, 1962-  Search this

Blake, Nayland, 1960-  Search this

Brennan, Patrick  Search this

Evans, Steven, (Curator)  Search this

Garrels, Gary.  Search this

Gonzalez-Torres, Felix, 1957-1996  Search this

Hawkins, Yolanda  Search this

Kalin, Tom  Search this

Klein, Jochen, 1967-1997  Search this

Lindell, John  Search this

Locks, Sabrina  Search this

Maharaj, Sarat (Sarat Chandra), 1952-  Search this

McCarty, Marlene, 1957-  Search this

McLaughlin, Mundy  Search this

Meyer, Richard, 1966-  Search this

Miller-Keller, Andrea  Search this

Moffett, Donald, 1955-  Search this

Nelson, Marybeth  Search this

Olander, William  Search this

Pasternak, Anne, 1964-  Search this

Phillips, Lisa, 1954-  Search this

Ramspacher, Karen  Search this

Rinder, Lawrence  Search this

Rollins, Tim, 1955-  Search this

Sandqvist, Gertrud  Search this

Serrano, Andres, 1950-  Search this

Staniszewski, Mary Anne  Search this

Szypula, Peter  Search this

Tucker, Marcia  Search this

Wagner, Frank  Search this

Wright, Charles  Search this

Extent:

6 Items (sound files (6 hr., 3 min.) Audio, digital, wav)

90 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Place:

New York (N.Y.) -- Description and Travel

Washington (D.C.) -- Description and Travel

Date:

2017 November 14-16

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Julie Ault conducted 2017 November 14 and 16, by Theodore Kerr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at a studio in Brooklyn, New York.

Ault speaks of the nature of memory and giving an oral history; her skepticism of linear narratives; leaving rural Maine for Washington, DC at age 17; her family history; her interest in popular culture and commercial culture as a teenager; disco and nightclubs in Washington and New York in the late 1970's; working a variety of day jobs in New York, including a telephone answering service; meeting Tim Rollins for the first time in Maine; her interest in conversation; her relationship to questions; the formation of Group Material in 1979; her relationship with Andres Serrano; Group Material's collaborative dynamic, and its effect on her personal development; the complexities of trying to write or tell history; the shifting configurations and contexts of Group Material over 17 years of activity; mounting, and thinking critically about, individual exhibitions after Group Material; the first AIDS Timeline in 1989; the ephemerality of the Timeline; book projects as a means of depositing personal memories; her first memories of the AIDS crisis beginning in 1983; Group Material's Democracy and AIDS series at Dia in 1988; investigating the tension between art and activism in the context of HIV/AIDS; Karen Ramspacher's entry and contributions to Group Material; the initial decision to employ the form of a timeline and four arenas of research; different audience relationships and reactions to the Timeline; the collaborative process of creating the Timeline; losing NEA funding after the Timeline, amid the early '90s culture wars; Group Material's second exhibition of AIDS Timeline in 1990; her friendship with Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Group Material's third exhibition of AIDS Timeline in 1991; the Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart exhibition; and an acknowledgement of topics that could not be covered in the interview. Ault also recalls Doug Ashford, Vikky Alexander, Yolanda Hawkins, Mundy McLaughlin, Sarat Maharaj, Gertrud Sandqvist, Marybeth Nelson, Patrick Brennan, Hannah Alderfer, Peter Szypula, Sabrina Locks, Larry Rinder, Richard Meyer, Bill Olander, Marcia Tucker, Gary Garrels, Charles Wright, Frank Wagner, Martin Beck, Nayland Blake, Anne Pasternak, Mary Anne Staniszewski, John Lindell, Tom Kalin, Donald Moffett, Marlene McCarty, Jochen Klein, Lisa Phillips, Andrea Miller-Keller, Steven Evans, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Julie Ault (1957- ) is an artist, writer, and curator in New York, New York. Theodore Kerr (1979- ) is a writer and organizer in New York, New York.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Occupation:

Political activists  Search this

Topic:

AIDS (Disease)  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Art -- Political aspects  Search this

Authors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

History -- Philosophy  Search this

Oral history  Search this

Women artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.ault17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-ault17

Interviewee:

Saul, Peter, 1934-  Search this

Interviewer:

Richards, Judith Olch  Search this

Extent:

6 Items (Sound recording, master: 6 memory cards (5 hr., 13 min.), secure digital, 1.25 in.)

119 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2009 Nov. 3-4

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Peter Saul conducted 2009 Nov. 3-4, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at Saul's studio, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Saul speaks of his childhood in San Francisco; boarding school in Canada; his time at the San Francisco Art Institute and Washington University in St. Louis; his travels to and extended stay in Europe: Bergen ann Zee, Netherlands; Paris, France, where he first saw Mad Comics and found his style and became recognized as an artist; and Rome, Italy where he was neighbors to Madame Nhu; his time as a teacher at the University of Texas; his relationship to funk art of the Bay Area, the Chicago imagists and pop art; his thoughts on American popular culture, the ever-shifting concept of being an interesting artist and the contemporary art world; his gallery partnerships with Allan Frumkin and David Nolan; Saul also recalls Max Beckmann, Wally Barker, Fred Conway, James Bishop, Cy Twombly, Peter Selz, Roy De Forest, William T. Wiley, Clayton Bailey, Robert Storr, Robert Crumb, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Interviewee Peter Saul (1934-) is painter, in New York, N.Y. Interviewer Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former Executive director of iCI in New York, N.Y.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Topic:

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by theTerra Foundation for American Art.

Identifier:

AAA.saul09

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-saul09

Creator:

Nagle, Ron  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Interviewer:

Berkson, Bill  Search this

Names:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

San Francisco State University -- Students  Search this

Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002  Search this

Extent:

84 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2003 July 8-9

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Ron Nagle conducted 2003 July 8-9, by Bill Berkson, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in San Francisco, California.

Nagle speaks of his childhood in San Francisco and growing up in the "Outer Mission"; his early creative influences, including his father who "could build anything," his mother, who ran a ceramics club in their basement, and his high school friend Steve Archer, who customized cars; making and selling jewelry while in high school; the Beat scene in San Francisco; teaching his high school friend Rick Gomez about jewelry in exchange for lessons in throwing clay on the wheel; attending San Francisco State University, initially as an English major then switching to art; learning about Peter Voulkos from Gomez; taking a summer course with Henry Takemoto at the Art Institute [now the California School of Fine Arts]; his "manic" interest in art magazines; studying with Charles McKee at San Francisco State; working as a studio assistant for Peter Voulkos at the University of California at Berkeley, after his graduate school application was rejected; making connections in the Los Angeles art scene through friend and sculptor Ed Bereal; the influence of Kenneth Price, James Melchert, Peter Voulkos, 16th and 17th century Japanese ceramics, popular culture, and painters such as Giorgio Morandi, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Josef Albers, Philip Guston, Billy Al Bengston, and others; his first show at the Dilexi Gallery, "Works in Clay by Six Artists," 1968; teaching for 42 years; the relation between music and "studio art"; playing the piano and his broad interest in music; his band Mystery Trend; creating sound effects for the film, "The Exorcist;" his use of color; exhibitions at Garth Clark Gallery and showing internationally; his use of porcelain in the early 1990s; the idea of craft vs. art; the meditative and playful qualities of working with clay; his references to male and female physiology in his work; and his process.

Biographical / Historical:

Ron Nagle (1939- ) is a cermacist of San Francisco, California. Bill Berkson (1939- ) is a poet.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 11 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 27 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Musicians -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Topic:

Ceramics -- Study and teaching  Search this

Ceramics -- Technique  Search this

Ceramicists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews  Search this

Jewelry making  Search this

Beat generation  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.nagle03

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-nagle03

Interviewee:

Frimkess, Michael, 1937-  Search this

Frimkess, Magdalena Suarez  Search this

Interviewer:

Karlstrom, Paul J.  Search this

Names:

Clay Art Center -- Students  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Otis Art Institute -- Faculty  Search this

Otis Art Institute -- Students  Search this

University of California, Berkeley. History of Art Dept. -- Students.  Search this

Rosen, Clara  Search this

Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002  Search this

Extent:

83 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2001 March 8-April 17

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Michael Frimkess and his wife, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, conducted 2001 March 3-April 17, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in the Frimkesses' studio/home, Venice, California.

Frimkess speaks of his early life in East Los Angeles, growing up in a multi-ethnic neighborhood, and later moving with his family to Hollywood; his interest in modeling figures beginning at age 3; studying with Peter Voulkos at Otis Art Institute beginning in 1955; his animation for United Productions of America, where he worked on Mr. Magoo as an "in-betweener"; his drug use; playing the saxophone and his goal to "blow" like Charlie Parker; Voulkos's "pot shop" at Otis; following Voulkos to the University of California at Berkeley to learn bronze casting; and Vouklos's teaching methods. Frimkess also discusses his interest in classical Greek and Chinese proportions and simplicity of design in his ceramics; how playing music has helped him to be more ambidextrous and develop dry throwing; Clara Rosen as a mentor; his spiritual connection to other dimensions when throwing; his isolation from the craft community because of his multiple sclerosis and the controversy over his technique; the article he wrote "The Importance of Being Classical" (Craft Horizons, March/April 1966) and its impact on his career; Super Mud and other conferences; using his ceramics to express his political ideas about America as a melting pot; his imagery; plans for his upcoming exhibition in Korea; and his lack of production over the past 20 years. Michael Frimkess recalls Paul Soldner, Michael Cardew, Ken Price, Garth Clark, James Melchert, Ron Nagel, Richard Shaw, and others. There is also a discussion with his wife Magdalena including such topics as her childhood in an orphanage in Caracas, Venezuela, where she began painting; her studies in Chile with artists Sewell Semen, Norman Calber, and Paul Harris; her scholarship to the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, N.Y., in 1963; meeting Michael at the Clay Art Center and their relationship; their financial difficulties; setting up joint studio in which he threw pots and she glazed them; Michael's lack of participation in the craft community; and the state of his health.

Magdalena Frimkess also provided another informed perspective on the events described by her husband.

Biographical / Historical:

Michael Frimkess (1937- ) is a ceramist from Venice, California. Magdalena Frimkess is a ceramist from Venice, California. Paul J. Karlstrom is the director of the West Coast Resource Center, Archives of American Art, San Marino, California. Michael Frimkess was a leading innovator of the California fine art clay movement that grew up around Peter Voulkos and his "pot shop" at the Otis Art Institute. An element that distinguished the vessels that made Michael Frimkess's reputation was the surface decoration based on popular culture and a Pop Art sensibility. This signature style, consisting of small figures mimicking classical or pre-Columbian friezes, was further developed by Frimkess's wife Magdalena (Suarez Frimkess) who eventually, as Michael's multiple sclerosis progressed, did most of the painting of the vessels.

Magdalena was born in Venezuela and was sent to an orphanage at age 7, when her mother died and her father was unable to support her. Later she moved to Chile where her two children were born. When she was offered a fellowship to the Clay Art Center in New York her companion told her she would have to choose between that and him and the children. She reluctantly chose art, but kept up with her offspring who eventually moved to California. Her sculpture career was to a large extent subsumed after she met and married Michael Frimkess.

General:

Originally recorded on 6 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 12 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 2 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching -- Chile  Search this

Potters -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Pottery -- Study and teaching -- United States.  Search this

Ceramicists -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.frimke01

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-frimke01

Interviewee:

Alexander, Peter, 1939-  Search this

Interviewer:

Karlstrom, Paul J.  Search this

Names:

Alexander, Peter, 1939-  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Elkon, Robert, 1928-1983  Search this

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970  Search this

Pereira, William L., 1909-1985  Search this

Extent:

117 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1995 December 13-1996 May 8

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Peter Alexander conducted 1995 December 13-1996 May 8, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.

This interview begins with an account of Alexander's family and educational background, including his study of architecture with Richard Neutra and further study in Philadelphia, London, and at USC, Los Angeles. He recalls working for architect William Pereira; his first New York exhibition; Robert Elkon and Leo Castelli, Los Angeles artists, the Hollywood connection; and Los Angeles in the 1960s. Alexander discusses the differences between New York and Los Angeles art worlds; his attachment to southern California; his arrogance in resisting the New York system and all it implied. He goes on to describe himself as a pagan, senusualist, and voyeur, qualities that inform his work, as does entertainment and popular culture.

Autobiographical in quality, his work embodies the notion of personality and character in determining his expression. He further discusses lessons learned from the old masters, the idea of artists as manipulators and art as voyeurism. Alexander considers his possible placement as a contemporary symbolist, contrasting his work to other current art which he sees as cynical. Finally, he claimed to see a new context and position for his art as a result of the interview, providing fresh insight into his activity as an artist.

Biographical / Historical:

Peter Alexander (1939- ) is a sculptor from Los Angeles, California.

General:

Originally recorded on 7 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 12 digital wav file. Duration is 6 hrs., 7 minutes.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. Funding for the transcription provided by the Pasadena Art Alliance.

Funding for this interveiw provided by Pasadena Art Alliance

Topic:

Sculptors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.alexan95

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-alexan95

Extent:

4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Books

Black-and-white photographs

Place:

United States -- History

United States -- Social life and customs

Date:

circa 1975-1976

Descriptive Entry:

This accession consists of two sets of The American Experience: A Resource Portfolio of American Images which are publications of photographs of American life and scenes.

Topic:

Americana  Search this

Popular culture -- United States  Search this

Genre/Form:

Books

Black-and-white photographs

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 92-010, The American Experience, Publications

Identifier:

Accession 92-010

See more items in:

The American Experience, Publications

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-fa92-010

Physical Description:

ink (overall material)

paper (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 14 cm x 9.5 cm; 5 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in

Object Name:

pamphlet

Place made:

Mexico

Location where used:

Mexico

Subject:

Food Culture  Search this

Popular Culture  Search this

Latino  Search this

Printing  Search this

ID Number:

CL.300959.14

Catalog number:

300959.14

Accession number:

300959

See more items in:

Cultural and Community Life: Ethnic

Cultures & Communities

Mexican America

Family & Social Life

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-e2b9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_660618

Recording artist:

Spivey, Victoria  Search this

Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five  Search this

Manufacturer:

Jazz Classics  Search this

Physical Description:

shellac (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm

Object Name:

sound recording

Place made:

United States

Recording date:

1929

Subject:

Popular Culture  Search this

Related Publication:

Rust, Brian. Jazz Records 1897-1942, Vol. 2

Discography of American Historical Recordings

Credit Line:

Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)

ID Number:

1988.0698.0220

Catalog number:

1988.0698.0220

Accession number:

1988.0698

Collector/donor number:

A220

Maker number:

568

See more items in:

Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment

Music & Musical Instruments

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-f1a0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1054757

Recording artist:

Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra  Search this

Manufacturer:

Okeh  Search this

Physical Description:

shellac (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm

Object Name:

sound recording

Place made:

United States: New York, New York

Recording date:

1929

Subject:

Popular Culture  Search this

Related Publication:

Rust, Brian. Jazz Records 1897-1942, Vol. 1

Credit Line:

Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)

ID Number:

1988.0698.0221

Catalog number:

1988.0698.0221

Accession number:

1988.0698

Collector/donor number:

A221

Maker number:

8714

See more items in:

Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment

Music & Musical Instruments

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-05e1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1054758

Recording artist:

Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra  Search this

Manufacturer:

Okeh  Search this

Physical Description:

shellac (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm

Object Name:

sound recording

Place made:

United States: New York, New York

Recording date:

1929

Subject:

Popular Culture  Search this

Related Publication:

Rust, Brian. Jazz Records 1897-1942, Vol. 1

Credit Line:

Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)

ID Number:

1988.0698.0222

Catalog number:

1988.0698.0222

Accession number:

1988.0698

Collector/donor number:

A222

Maker number:

41276

See more items in:

Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment

Music & Musical Instruments

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-f1a1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1054759