Skip to main content Smithsonian Institution

Search Results

Collections Search Center
1 documents - page 1 of 1

Oral history interview with Celia Alvarez Muñoz

Interviewee:
Muñoz, Celia Alvarez, 1937-  Search this
Interviewer:
Cordova, Cary  Search this
Creator:
Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas  Search this
Names:
Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas  Search this
Garcia, Rupert, 1941-  Search this
Hayden, Dolores  Search this
Huerta, Benito, 1952-  Search this
Limón, Damiana Esparza  Search this
Lippard, Lucy R.  Search this
Massey, Robert, 1921-  Search this
Ruiz, Vicky  Search this
Souza, Al, 1944-  Search this
Walker, Ashley, 1913-  Search this
Extent:
70 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Date:
2004 Feb. 7-28
Scope and Contents:
An interview of Celia Alvarez Muñoz conducted 2004 Feb. 7-28, by Cary Cordova, for the Archives of American Art, in Arlington, Tex.
Muñoz speaks of her early childhood and close relationship to her maternal grandmother Damiana Esparza Limón; travels to California in high school; Father Rahm, the youth center, and the opportunity to go to college; Dr. Robert Massey who was an etcher and took Muñoz under his wing; her zeal graduating from Texas Western University; teaching art to school children; her marriage; experimenting with photography; the theory of deconstruction; being a writer; the "Enlightenment" series, which began in graduate school; spirituality and philosophy; Dolores Hayden and the University of California at Los Angeles program in architecture and urban planning; her consciousness of feminism; meeting Lucy Lippard and discussing her evolution; language and the multiple meanings of words; the significance of architecture within her work; the Dallas/Fort Worth airport project; the importance of her family and their support throughout her life; Xeroxing and use of transparencies; and the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas. Muñoz also recalls Al Souza, Ashley Walker, Rupert Garcia, Vicky Ruiz, Benito Huerta, and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Celia Alvarez Muñoz (1937- ) is an artist from Arlington, Tex. Cary Cordova (1970- ) is an art historian from Austin, Tex.
General:
Originally recorded on 7 sound discs and 1 compact disc. Reformatted in 2010 as 14 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hrs., 22 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:
Authors -- Texas  Search this
Photographers -- Texas  Search this
Topic:
Art -- Technique  Search this
Feminism and art  Search this
Women artists  Search this
Latino and Latin American artists  Search this
Women photographers  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Identifier:
AAA.munoz04
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw986fddf77-9dd6-411b-9396-c4f69474b3be
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-munoz04
Online Media:

Modify Your Search







or


Narrow By
  • Sound recordings
  • Finding aids
  • Electronic resource
  • Archival materials
  • Collection descriptions
  • Interviews
  • Pages
  • Sound recordings
  • Archival materials
  • Collection descriptions
  • Interviews
  • Pages
  • Sound recordings
  • Art
  • Authors
  • Feminism and art
  • Latino and Latin American artists
  • Photographers
  • Women artists
  • Women photographers
  • Art
  • Authors
  • Feminism and art
  • Latino and Latin American artists
  • Photographers
  • Women artists
  • Women photographers
  • Cordova, Cary
  • Garcia, Rupert, 1941-
  • Hayden, Dolores
  • Huerta, Benito, 1952-
  • Limón, Damiana Esparza
  • Lippard, Lucy R.
  • Massey, Robert, 1921-
  • Muñoz, Celia Alvarez, 1937-
  • Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
  • Ruiz, Vicky
  • Cordova, Cary
  • Garcia, Rupert, 1941-
  • Hayden, Dolores
  • Huerta, Benito, 1952-
  • Limón, Damiana Esparza
  • Lippard, Lucy R.
  • Massey, Robert, 1921-
  • Muñoz, Celia Alvarez, 1937-
  • Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
  • Ruiz, Vicky
  • 2000s
  • Archives of American Art