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Creator:

Hickman, Pat (Patricia Lynette), 1941-  Search this

Subject:

Elliott, Lilian  Search this

Branford, Joanne Segal  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Citation:

Lillian Elliott and Joanne Segal Brandford lectures, panel discussion and interview, 1991-1993. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Handicraft  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)16234

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)370267

AAA_collcode_hickpat

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_370267

Interviewee:

Westphal, Katherine  Search this

Interviewer:

Austin, Carole  Search this

Creator:

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

Names:

Fiberworks, Center for the Textile Arts  Search this

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

Rhode Island School of Design  Search this

University of California, Davis -- Faculty  Search this

Farago, Daphne  Search this

Hickman, Pat (Patricia Lynette), 1941-  Search this

Karoly, Frederic, 1898-1987  Search this

Laky, Gyöngy, 1944-  Search this

Larsen, Jack Lenor  Search this

Lynn, Greg  Search this

Rossbach, Ed  Search this

Extent:

58 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Date:

2002 September 3-7

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Katherine Westphal conducted 2002 September 3-7, by Carole Austin, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

This interview took place in Berkeley, California. Westphal speaks of drawing every day; her rewarding education experience teaching at University of California, Davis' Applied Behavioral Sciences Department; her college encounters; the World Crafts Conference in Vienna in 1980; the significance of her travels in her artwork, including trips to Egypt, Hawaii, Wyoming, and Indonesia among others; her fascination with different types of art; the non-functional aspect of her artwork; the lack of necessity to sell artwork due to her job teaching, and the personal nature of her work not driven by a "craft market"; working for the textile industry; working with agent Frederick Karoly in New York; the considerable collection Daphne Farago has made of both Katherine's and her husband, Ed Rossbach's, artwork; her working environment; her storage condo; her most precious possession, her dogs; remodeling her Berkeley home and installing a glass elevator; the artist community at UC Davis and Fiberworks before it became a school; people she took workshops with at Fiberworks; a chronology of her work from the 1960s to present day; her and Ed's retirement in 1979 and their subsequent trip to Bali; her relationship with the home health care industry when Ed became sick; her development of baskets; her love of color; her artist in residency at Rhode Island School of Design in 1980, learning to work on the Jacquard loom; her very personal collection of postcards, which she created while on trips; her dog stories; several of the shows she has been in, including "Objects: USA" and "American Crafts at the Vatican"; the commission she completed for a hotel in Tokyo; and her copy machines and the various technological advances made during her career. Westphal also recalls Gyöngy Laky, Chere Lai Mah, Pat Hickman, Greg Lynn, Helen and Tio Giambruni, Jack Lenor Larsen and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Katherine Westphal (1919- ) is a fiber artist in Berkeley, California. Carole Austin is an interviewer, curator, and writer in Orinda, California.

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:

Use requires an appointment.

Access is to transcript only.

Topic:

Decorative arts  Search this

Fiber artists -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women textile artists  Search this

Textile crafts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sponsor:

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

Identifier:

AAA.westph02

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90eb7eed0-7263-4e68-a8f7-8c1b28986497

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-westph02

Compiler:

Hickman, Pat (Patricia Lynette), 1941-  Search this

Names:

Branford, Joanne Segal, 1933-1994  Search this

Elliott, Lilian, 1930-1994  Search this

Extent:

0.2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

1991-1993

Scope and Contents:

Three lectures, a panel discussion and an interview on six DVDs with fiber artists Lillian Elliott and Joanne Segal Brandford compiled by colleague and friend, Patricia Hickman. Included are three lectures conducted at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, two by Lillian Elliott and one by Joann Segal Brandford, 1991-1993; a panel discussion including Lillian Elliott entitled, "The Walls Come Down: The Crafting of America," 1993, University of Hawaii, Honolulu; and a two part interview of Joanne Segal Brandford conducted by Lillian Elliott and recorded by Paul Brandford, 1993. Also included is documentation detailing the contents of each recording contained on a flash drive.

Biographical / Historical:

Patricia Hickman (1941- ) is a fiber artist and sculptor in Berkeley, California, Kailua, Hawaii, and Haverstraw, New York. Lillian Elliott (1930 -1994) and Joanne Segal Brandford (1933- 1994) were fiber artsts in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Provenance:

Donated 2015 by Patrica Hickman, a friend and colleague of Elliott and Branford. Hickman compiled the material in honor of the fiber artists.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.

Occupation:

Fiber artists  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Handicraft  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Identifier:

AAA.hickpat

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b5facc04-3675-437e-8e36-81b00ec35f09

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hickpat