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Interviewee:

Saylan, Merryll B., 1936-  Search this

Interviewer:

Adamson, Glenn  Search this

Creator:

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

Names:

American Association of Woodturners  Search this

California State University, Northridge -- Students  Search this

International Turned Objects Show (1988 : Philadelphia, Pa.)  Search this

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

University of California, Los Angeles -- Students  Search this

Wood Turning Center (Philadelphia, Pa.)  Search this

Woodstock School of Painting  Search this

Blunk, J. B., 1926-2002  Search this

Cooper, Michael Jean  Search this

Evans, Ralph  Search this

Foy, George  Search this

Fredell, Gail  Search this

Glaser, Jerry  Search this

Lipofsky, Marvin, 1938-2016  Search this

Maruyama, Wendy, 1952-  Search this

Rapp, Joanne  Search this

Stocksdale, Bob, 1913-2003  Search this

Stubbs, Del  Search this

Weir-Quiton, Pamela  Search this

Extent:

7 Items (Sound recording: 7 compact discs (6 hr., 9 min.), digital, 2 5/8 in.)

116 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

England -- description and travel

France -- description and travel

Guatemala -- Description and Travel

Hong Kong -- Description and Travel

Japan -- Description and Travel

Philippines -- Description and Travel

Date:

2006 May 20-June 5

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Merryll Saylan conducted 2006 May 20-June 5, by Glenn Adamson, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London, England.

Saylan speaks of her childhood in Los Angeles, California; her early musical education in piano and viola; memories of World War II; her family's political views during the Cold War; meeting her first husband at UCLA; dropping out of school to move to Virginia and Georgia in fulfillment of her husband's military service; experiencing anti-Semitism in Georgia; the challenges of her eldest son's speech problems; traveling to France, Japan, Guatemala, Hong Kong and the Philippines; her interest in Japanese culture; completing her B.A. in design at UCLA and her M.A. in studio art at California State University, Northridge; anti-Vietnam sentiment on campus; early interests in environmental design; her second husband and his friends; her interest in furniture and woodworking; differing approaches to woodworking on the east and west coasts; her views on feminism and working women; her use of color and texture in woodworking; teaching experiences; popular perception of her work; receiving a grant to go to England and her involvement with English and German woodturners; the lack of collector interest in her work; forced absences from working because of illnesses; serving on the boards of the American Association of Woodturners and The Woodturning Center; her involvement in the International Turned Objects Show, the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Biannual Exposition, and the International Turning Exchange; her thoughts on future work. Saylan also recalls George Foy, Bob Stocksdale, Michael Cooper, Pamela Weir-Quiton, Joanne Rapp, J.B. Blunk, Marvin Lipofsky, Gail Fredell, Wendy Maruyama, Ralph Evans, Del Stubbs, Jerry Glaser, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Merryll Saylan (1936- ) is a wood artist from San Rafael, California. Glenn Adamson (1972- ) is a museum professional, in London, England.

General:

Originally recorded on 7 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 9 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:

Woodworkers -- California  Search this

Topic:

Decorative arts  Search this

Environmental engineering  Search this

Feminism and art  Search this

Furniture making  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Woodwork  Search this

World War, 1939-1945  Search this

Turning (Lathe work)  Search this

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.saylan06

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw935cef910-0ce6-49cb-a74d-2d2735b3f08e

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-saylan06

Interviewee:

Simpson, Tommy  Search this

Interviewer:

Cooke, Edward S., 1954-  Search this

Creator:

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

Names:

Boston University. Program in Artisanry -- Faculty  Search this

Cranbrook Academy of Art -- Students  Search this

Museum of Arts and Design (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

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

Northern Illinois University -- Students  Search this

University of Hartford -- Faculty  Search this

Castle, Wendell, 1932-2018  Search this

Maloof, Sam  Search this

Maruyama, Wendy, 1952-  Search this

McKie, Judy Kensley, 1944-  Search this

Newman, Richard, (Artist)  Search this

Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974  Search this

Smith, Paul J., 1931-  Search this

Zucca, Edward  Search this

Extent:

6 Items (Sound recording: 6 sound files (3 hr., 54 min.), digital, wav)

89 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

China -- Description and Travel

Europe -- description and travel

Date:

2004 May 6-July 2

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Tommy Simpson conducted 2004 May 6-July 2, by Edward S. Cooke, Jr., for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Simpson speaks of growing up in rural Illinois; making things as a child; discovering his interest in art at Northern Illinois University; getting an MFA in painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art; using the wood shop at Cranbrook; exhibiting at various galleries in New York City and moving to Connecticut; showing work in the "Fantasy Furniture" exhibit at the Museum of Arts & Design; visiting Europe; the New York studio furniture market in the 1960s; writing the book, "Fantasy Furniture"; exhibiting in "Objects USA;" working as artist in residence at the Fairtree Gallery; teaching at the University of Hartford; his work ethic and productivity; living and working in Greenwich, Connecticut; the constraints of being classified as a furniture maker; teaching briefly at the Program In Artisanry and other schools; the increased public interest in fine woodworking in the 1980s; changes in the craft market; writing the book, "Two Looks to Home"; the influence of events on his work; his current interest in making whole interiors; working on commission; the current public interest in craft; expressing themes in his work; his working process in his studio; the future of fine woodworking; the difficulties of working with galleries; designing rugs; and visiting China. Simpson also recalls Zoltan Sepeshy, Wendell Castle, Paul Smith, Sam Maloof, Edward Zucca, Wendy Maruyama, Richard Newman, Judy McKie, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Tommy Simpson (1939- ) is a furniture maker and sculptor from Washington Depot, Connecticut. Edward S. Cooke, Jr. is a professor from Newtonville, Massachusetts.

General:

Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 54 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:

Cabinetmakers  Search this

Sculptors -- Connecticut  Search this

Topic:

Decorative arts  Search this

Painting -- Study and teaching  Search this

Furniture making  Search this

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.simpso04

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95d21c644-be78-4a66-83ff-e67f648199b8

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-simpso04

Interviewee:

Maruyama, Wendy, 1952-  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

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Wendy Maruyama, 2010 March 5-6. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)15790

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)288769

AAA_collcode_maruya10

Theme:

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_288769

Interviewee:

Cederquist, John  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 -- Students  Search this

Franklin Parrasch Gallery  Search this

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Search this

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

Oakland Museum  Search this

Saddleback College -- Faculty  Search this

Bennett, Garry Knox, 1934-  Search this

Clark, Garth, 1947-  Search this

Cooke, Edward S., 1954-  Search this

Danto, Arthur Coleman, 1924-  Search this

Gaines, Tom  Search this

Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012  Search this

Makepeace, John  Search this

Maruyama, Wendy, 1952-  Search this

Parrasch, Franklin  Search this

Smith, Roberta  Search this

Snidecor, John  Search this

Straight, Bob  Search this

Straight, Chris  Search this

Turnbull, George  Search this

Zuecher, Gary  Search this

Extent:

11 Items (Sound recording: 11 sound files (4 hr., 54 min.), digital, wav file)

111 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2009 April 14-15

Scope and Contents:

An interview of John Cederquist conducted 2009 April 14-15, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Cederquist's studio, in San Clemente, California.

John Cederquist speaks of his recent series Dollar Bill; his long-standing interest in perspective and use of tool imagery in his work; his childhood in Southern California; his early interest in art through custom car art; high school art instruction and focusing on craft; earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at California State University, Long Beach in the late 1960s and early 1970s; teaching at Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California, starting in the early 1970s; work in wood and leather; other brief teaching jobs in Southern California universities; early exhibitions; exhibition and demonstrations at Parnham House, Beaminster, England, 1978; starting to teach perspective at Saddleback; Number One; the Egg and the Eye gallery/cafe, Los Angeles, California; Game Table [1982]; Auntie Macassar Goes West, 1987-88; philosophical and aesthetic differences between wood artists on the East and West coasts; exhibition: "Material Evidence: Master Craftsmen Explore ColorCore," Workbench: the Gallery, New York, New York, 1984; "California Woodworking," the Oakland Museum [of California, 1980; Thonet catalog as source material]; influence of animation in film and television; the perceptual and conceptual issues in translating two dimensions into three, and vice versa; the nature of illusion and perception; inclusion of work in an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989; the influence of How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging, Hideyuki Oka, Trumbull, Connecticut: Weatherhill, 1967; use of the Thomas Chippendale book (1754) as source material; subtle influence of cubism on Ghost Boy [1992] piece; his choice of furniture as the vehicle for his aesthetic exploration; series Furniture That Builds Itself (1991-2007), and continued influence of cartoons and animation; his choice of different kinds of wood; series How to Wrap Five Crates; series Kimonos and the influence of Japanese aesthetics; When Machines Dream of Hokusai [1995]: Road to Dreamland; series Wave (early to mid-1990s), and Tubular [1990], the first in the series; series Kosode; series This Is Not Lunch; historical Japanese tattoos as a source of inspiration; "Furniture That Builds Itself," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York, 2003; sense of humor and "goofiness" in his work; Flat Foot Floogie Builds a Bench. [2003]; influence of photography on his work; his pieces as functional furniture and the artistic potential therein; social commentary in his recent Kosode pieces; Heavenly Victory; how his pieces get named; "The Art of John Cederquist: Reality of Illusion," Oakland Museum of California, 1999-2000; Breakthrough series: Steamer, early 1990s; Top Drawer (1985); Space Age Wave Machine (1999); use of thick wood instead of veneer; strengths and weaknesses of a university setting for art studies; the importance of being part of the craft movement; the role of Garth Clark's gallery in the movement; the importance of working with the Franklin Parrasch gallery; his admiration for art critic Robert Hughes; the role of online media in art journalism and criticism and journalism. He also recalls Gary Zuercher, Franklin Parrasch, John Snidecor, George Turnbull, John Makepeace, Edward S. Cooke, Garry Knox Bennett, Wendy Maruyama, Tom Gaines, Bob and Chris Straight, Arthur Danto, and Roberta Smith.

Biographical / Historical:

John Cederquist (1946- ) creates fine art furniture and wood sculpture. Cederquist is known for using trompe l'oeil in his work. He was educated at Long Beach State University and teaches at Saddleback College.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 11 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 54 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:

Cabinetmakers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Furniture designers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Sculptors -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Woodworkers -- California -- Interviews.  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.cederq09

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e6b8700a-8d69-4730-8c1b-fa580b376816

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-cederq09

Interviewee:

Shire, Peter  Search this

Interviewer:

Lauria, Jo  Search this

Creator:

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

Names:

Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Students  Search this

Los Angeles City College -- Students  Search this

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

Bennett, Garry Knox, 1934-  Search this

Cibic, Aldo, 1955-  Search this

Duran, Gonzalo  Search this

Jiminez, Juanita  Search this

Kashalek, Robert  Search this

Maruyama, Wendy, 1952-  Search this

Saxe, Adrian Anthony, 1943-  Search this

Scaccia, Anthony  Search this

Sheets, Millard, 1907-1989  Search this

Thun, Matteo  Search this

Westermann, H. C. (Horace Clifford), 1922-  Search this

Zanini, Marco  Search this

Extent:

77 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2007 September 18-19

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Peter Shire conducted 2007 September 18-19, by Jo Lauria, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Shire's studio, in Los Angeles, California.

Shire speaks of being a native Californian; his childhood growing up in the Los Angeles community of Echo Park; his parents' socialist political ideas; memories of FBI surveillance of his home and parents; defining the term kitsch as "the substitution of spurious values for real ones," using plastic flowers as an example; the essence of the craft movement as the handmade, the real; attending Saturday classes at Chouinard Art Institute while in high school; clothing fashion in his neighborhood during the late 1960s; the influence of high school teacher Anthony Scaccia; attending Los Angeles City College for one semester; discovering Domus magazine in the school library; receiving his B.F.A. from Chouinard in 1970; teaching at InterPace; being inspired by H.C. Westermann's work; traveling to Milan, Italy and visiting Ettore Sottsass; his interest in a humanistic, personal expression in art; encountering resistance to his "art furniture"; his 2007 show at Frank Lloyd Gallery, "Peter Shire Chairs"; the desire to create a total spatial experience of his work by charging the everyday function of objects with an emotional impact; and his public art commissions. Shire also recalls Gonzalo Duran, Juanita Jiminez, Millard Sheets, Adrian Saxe, Wendy Maruyama, Gary Knox Bennett, Marco Zanini, Matteo Thun, Aldo Cibic, Robert Koshalek, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Peter Shire (1947- ) is a sculptor from Los Angeles, California. Jo Lauria is a curator and arts writer also from Los Angeles, California.

General:

Originally recorded as 13 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 8 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.

Topic:

Sculptors -- California -- Los Angeles -- 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.shire07

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw922cf02bd-dcfd-4567-b3c2-86e862befe33

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-shire07

Interviewee:

Somerson, Rosanne, 1954-  Search this

Interviewer:

Michie, Thomas S.  Search this

Creator:

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

Names:

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts  Search this

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

Peters Valley (Craft center)  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design -- Faculty  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design -- Students  Search this

Richard Kagan Gallery  Search this

Snyderman Gallery  Search this

Abramson, Ron  Search this

Callahan, Harry M.  Search this

Capanigro, Paul  Search this

Cooke, Ned  Search this

Dunnigan, John, 1950-  Search this

Fairbanks, Jonathan L.  Search this

Follen, Eck  Search this

Frid, Tage  Search this

Jackson, Dan  Search this

Joseph, Peter T. (Peter Thomas), 1950-1998  Search this

Kagan, Richard  Search this

Keck, Hardu  Search this

Kranov, James  Search this

Maruyama, Wendy, 1952-  Search this

Mattia, Alphonse  Search this

Melanson, Gracie  Search this

Osgood, Jere, 1936-  Search this

Sfirri, Mark  Search this

Siskind, Aaron  Search this

Swanson, Charlie  Search this

Szasz, Merlin  Search this

White, Leroy  Search this

Wolf, Hans  Search this

Extent:

61 Pages (Transcripts)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2006 August 7 and 2007 June 22

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Rosanne Somerson conducted 2006 August 7-2007 June 22, by Thomas Michie, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island. In part one of this interview, Somerson speaks of growing up outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; attending RISD beginning in 1971; being asked to teach there nine years later; creating a new department of furniture design; tailoring that furniture design program to encompass the development from design to manufacture; introducing materials other than wood into the program; garnering international attention through worldwide exhibits; her first show at the Richard Kagan Gallery in Philadelphia; participating in a group show in New York City for female woodworkers; making connections through the Snyderman Gallery and Pritam and Eames Gallery; working directly with clients on commissioned pieces; the financial stability of teaching; designing a piece for the headquarters of Khon, Peterson Fox, and Conway in New York; the sculptural elements present in many of her works; moving from a small studio in Boston, Massachusetts, to a larger studio in Westport, Connecticut, and finally to a shared studio in Fall River, Massachusetts; the supportive and proud reaction of her children to her work; creating a production company with colleagues and designing furniture for the RISD dormitories; attempting to make these designs both flexible and environmentally-friendly; putting aside teaching for an administrative position in the department; recent travel to Japan, Australia, England, Israel, and France; enrolling in summer programs with art schools like Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine and others; and excitement for her upcoming sabbatical.

In the second portion of the interview, she discusses living in a house built by her father in Wyncote, Pennsylvania; enjoying the location of the house on a former cherry orchard and consequently being drawn cherry wood as a medium; the feeling of her parents that anything could be accomplished with a certain amount of study; her mother's interest in weaving and spinning later in life; the creative pursuits of her older brothers, including creative writing and photography; verbally communicating the outside world to her blind grandfather and gaining an aptitude for interpreting visual imagery; being more academically than artistically focused in her youth; visiting art museums and having other cultural experiences with her family; being fascinated with photography by seeing her brother's work; deciding to put off college in order to spend a year in Denmark studying photography; enrolling in RISD and feeling overwhelmed at first by her inexperience; taking a winter course in wood-working and preferring it to photography; being advised by her teacher Tage Frid to gain a wood-working education by pursuing sculpture at RISD; transferring into industrial design later; learning a great deal from and being extraordinarily influenced by Tage Frid as a furniture designer and teacher; taking a semester off to attend Peters Valley Craftsmen in New Jersey; spending a few years after graduation assisting Frid with the writing and publication of his articles; working as an assistant editor for Fine Woodworking magazine; being offered a job at RISD in the furniture department; creating the furniture design program; using RISD's collection as inspiration for her work and as a teaching tool; moving towards using more local woods in her designs; her recent lecture and travel in China; and looking forward to focusing on her work in the new studio.

Somerson recalls John Dunnigan, Dick Kagan, Ned Cooke, Jonathan Fairbanks, Wendy Maruyama, James Krenov, Dan Jackson, Jere Osgood, Alphonse Mattia, Peter Joseph, Ron Abramson, Charlie Swanson, Eck Follen, Peter Walker, and others. In the second part, Somerson recalls Merlin Szasz, LeRoy White, Hardu Keck, Gracia Melanson, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Paul Crot, Paul Capanigro, Tage Frid, Hans Wolfe, Mark Sfirri, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Rosanne Somerson (1954- ) is a professor of furniture design and furniture designer and maker in Westport, Massachusetts. Thomas Michie is a curator of decorative arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.

General:

Originally recorded on 5 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 3 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:

Furniture designers -- Rhode Island  Search this

Topic:

Decorative arts  Search this

Educators -- Rhode Island -- Interviews  Search this

Photography  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women designers  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Furniture design  Search this

Function:

Artists' studios

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.somers06

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9db2e506b-fd9b-42d1-b6a2-f24d806027dc

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-somers06

Interviewee:

Maruyama, Wendy, 1952-  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:

80 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2010 March 5-6

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Wendy Maruyama conducted 2010 March 5 and 6, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Maruyama's home and studio, in San Diego, California.

Biographical / Historical:

Wendy Maruyama (1952- ) is an artist, furniture maker, and educator in San Diego, California.

General:

Originally recorded on 6 memory cards. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 17 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:

Designers -- California  Search this

Woodworkers -- California  Search this

Furniture designers  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women educators  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.

Identifier:

AAA.maruya10

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ced9edf7-0907-4b71-9a83-0dfa35b81bd2

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-maruya10

Artist:

Maruyama, Wendy 1952-  Search this

Physical description:

1 folder

Type:

Photograph

Artist files

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Image number:

VFM VF001916

See more items in:

Photograph Study Collection

Data Source:

Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_jul_140492

Sculptor:

Maruyama, Wendy 1952-  Search this

Medium:

Polychromed basswood

Type:

Sculptures-Bench

Sculptures

Owner/Location:

Arizona State University University Art Museum Tempe Arizona 85287

Date:

1987

Topic:

Object--Furniture--Bench  Search this

Control number:

IAS 01210078

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_ari_25669

Author:

Paley, Albert  Search this

O'Banion, Nance  Search this

Yana-Shapiro, Howard 1947-  Search this

Maruyama, Wendy 1952-  Search this

Chihuly, Dale 1941-  Search this

Physical description:

[32] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

United States

Date:

1984

C1984

Topic:

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Glass sculpture  Search this

Metal-work  Search this

Call number:

N6512 .F58 1984

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_638540