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Interviewee:

Jacobs, Ferne K. (Ferne Kent), 1942-  Search this

Jacobs, Ferne K. (Ferne Kent), 1942-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Subject:

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

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

Fiberwork -- Technique  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Women  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11804

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)255205

AAA_collcode_jacobs05

Theme:

Craft

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_255205

Interviewee:

Jacobs, Ferne K. (Ferne Kent), 1942-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Creator:

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

Names:

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

Extent:

84 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2005 August 30-31

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Ferne Jacobs conducted 2005 August 30-31, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the artist's home and studio, in Los Angeles, California.

Jacobs discusses her early childhood in Chicago and her family's move to Los Angeles; her parents' emigration from Europe; her parents' involvement with the Chicago Club in Los Angeles; her earliest experience with art at a Van Gogh exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; her fascination with drawing at an early age; her first art classes with Ron Blumberg, during her senior year of high school; entering in the Art Center College of Design; getting married and moving to New York; working in the handbag department of Bonwit Teller and taking classes at the Pratt Institute; her later education at various institutions, including California State University in San Diego, Claremont Graduate University, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine.; her first meeting with Dominic di Mare in San Francisco; her first meeting with Lenore Tawney in New York; her first foray off the loom at the behest of Arline M. Fisch; her first show at Galleria del Sol in Santa Barbara, California; her second show at the Fairtree Gallery in New York where Paul Smith, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Craft (now the Museum of Arts & Design) first saw her work; being included, along with Lenore Tawney, in the First World Craft exhibition in Toronto in 1967; her travels to Cape Cod, where she vacations annually, and to Italy; her aversion to all things technological; her recent experience learning to read the Torah; her work, including Tide (2005), Container for a Wind (1974), and Wind (2004); her interest in Carl Jung; addressing timelessness and duality in her work; various fiber techniques including twining, coiling, and knotting; her relationship with her son Peter and daughter Naomi; her relationship with dealers and galleries, including the Sybaris Gallery and the Snyderman Gallery; and the inspiration for her work that she finds in nature.

Jacobs also recalls Gabriel Laderman, Mary Jane Leland, Olga de Amaral, Peter Collingwood, Jack Lenor Larsen, Kay Sekimachi, Joan Austin, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Neda Al-Hilali, Marilyn Pappas, Patsy Krebs, Vija Celmins, Claire Delmar, Ken Price, Ron Nagle, Roland Reese, Fred Tomaselli, Agnes Martin, Francis Sumner Merritt, Joanne Rapp, Nancy Margolis, Kate Anderson, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Ferne Jacobs (1942- ) is a fiber artist from Los Angeles, California. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is a curator and writer from San Francisco, California.

General:

Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 6 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.

Occupation:

Fiber artists -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this

Topic:

Fiberwork -- Technique  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Women artists  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.jacobs05

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9bb122ba2-3ce1-4db1-a857-b8938e68b0dc

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-jacobs05

Interviewee:

Giles, Mary  Search this

Interviewer:

Sauer, Jane, 1937-  Search this

Creator:

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

Names:

American Crafts Council  Search this

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts -- Students  Search this

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts -- Students  Search this

Mankato State University -- Students  Search this

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

Penland School of Crafts -- Students  Search this

SOFA Chicago  Search this

Buckman, Jan  Search this

DeRaad, Rianna  Search this

Hu, Mary Lee, 1943-  Search this

Itter, Diane, 1946-1989  Search this

Jacobs, Ferne K. (Ferne Kent), 1942-  Search this

Kranzberg, Nancy  Search this

Larsen, Jack Lenor  Search this

Martin, Agnes, 1912-2004  Search this

Nottingham, Walter, 1930-2012  Search this

Okun, Barbara Rose  Search this

Reed, Duane  Search this

Schira, Cynthia, 1934-  Search this

Shieber, Horty  Search this

Extent:

4 Items (Sound recording: 4 sound files (2 hr., 43 min.), digital, wav)

46 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Place:

Minnesota -- Description and Travel

Date:

2006 July 18

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Mary Giles conducted 2006 July 18, by Jane Sauer, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the home of Jane Sauer, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Giles speaks of childhood summers spent on Pine Lake in Minnesota; receiving a B.S. in art education from Mankato State University, Minnesota; educational experiences at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts; the influence of nature and Native American art in her work; finding inspiration in "woods and water"; spirituality; teaching elementary art in St. Louis for 28 years while pursuing her art; the materials she works with, including wax linen and various metals; the techniques she uses, such as coiling, twining, torching, hammering, and knotting; the importance of a studio; the appeal of natural aging and corrosion of materials; the competitiveness of craft fields in the United States; attending American Craft Council shows and Sculpture Objects & Functional Art expositions in Chicago; craft as art in the United States; her experience showing in galleries and struggles with pricing; participating in the Poland Triennale in Lodz, Poland, 2001; the pioneering efforts of female fiber artists. Giles also recalls Mary Lee Hu, Diane Itter, Jack Lenor Larsen, Walter Nottingham, Rianna DeRaad, Cynthia Schira, Ferne Jacobs, Barbara Rose Okun, Nancy Kranzberg, Jan Buckman, Horty Shieber, Duane Reed, Agnes Martin, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Mary Giles (1944- ) is an artist of Stillwater, Minnesota. Jane Sauer (1937- ) is an artist and gallery owner of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

General:

Originally recorded 3 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 43 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.

Occupation:

Fiber artists -- Minnesota  Search this

Sculptors -- Minnesota  Search this

Topic:

Decorative arts  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women textile artists  Search this

Women sculptors  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.giles06

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ed1875cb-b7ee-422d-a63e-1c58f8b6352d

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-giles06

Interviewee:

Al-Hilali, Neda, 1938-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Creator:

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

Names:

California State University, Los Angeles -- Faculty  Search this

Claremont Graduate University -- Faculty  Search this

Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery  Search this

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

Scripps College -- Faculty  Search this

Taliban  Search this

University of California, Los Angeles -- Faculty  Search this

University of California, Los Angeles -- Students  Search this

Bassler, James W., 1933-  Search this

Hunsaker, Joyce Badgley  Search this

Jacobs, Ferne K. (Ferne Kent), 1942-  Search this

Kester, Bernard  Search this

Simsar, Alice  Search this

Extent:

116 Pages (Transcript)

22 Items (Sound recording: 22 sound files (7 hr., 46 min.), digital, wav)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2006 July 18-19

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Neda Al-Hilali conducted 2006 July 18-19, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the artist's home, in Los Angeles, California.

Al-Hilali speaks of her childhood in Czechoslovakia and Bavaria; studying language in London; her experience living in Baghdad, Iraq with her first husband; moving to California and completing her undergraduate and graduate degrees at UCLA; teaching experiences at Scripps College, Claremont Graduate University, California State University Los Angeles, and UCLA; the installation processes of Beach Occurrence with Tongues, Black Passage, the Cassiopeia series, and others; frustrations she encountered with commission work; the rich history of the fiber tradition; travels to Afghanistan, Japan, and Oaxaca, Mexico; achieving gestural and painterly qualities with fiber; the importance of color in textile work in the Middle East; experiences with galleries, including the Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery in Santa Monica, California; utilizing a Ouija board for reflection and creative guidance; issues such as global warming and over-development; the status of women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule; the gratitude she feels at being a part of the fiber tradition; and plans for the future. Al-Hilali also recalls Bernard Kester, Jim Bassler, Fern Jacobs, Joyce Hunsaker, Alice Simsar, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Neda Al-Hilali (1938- ) is a fiber artist and weaver in Los Angeles, California. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is a curator and writer in San Francisco, California.

General:

Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 22 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hr., 46 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.

Occupation:

Fiber artists -- California  Search this

Educators -- California  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women textile artists  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Climatic changes  Search this

Function:

Art commissions

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

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.alhila06

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90c8786e8-2836-4115-ab8b-deb8cd8afa38

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-alhila06

Author:

Lineberry, Heather Sealy  Search this

Sauer, Jane 1937-  Search this

Trapp, Kenneth R  Search this

Jacobs, Ferne K (Ferne Kent) 1942-  Search this

Sara and David Lieberman Collection  Search this

Arizona State University Art Museum  Search this

Subject:

Lieberman, David Art collections  Search this

Lieberman, Sara Art collections  Search this

Sara and David Lieberman Collection  Search this

Physical description:

48 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Date:

2005

[c2005]

Topic:

Basketwork  Search this

Baskets  Search this

Call number:

NK3649.5 .I58 2005

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_821302