Liza Kirwin

Curator of Manuscripts

Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012

kirwinl@aaa.si.edu

Research Interests

American art in the 1980s, artistic communities, American folk art outsider art, Latino and African American art.

Current Research Projects

Currently managing the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorataive Arts in America, a five-year project to conduct 100 oral history interviews of prominent America artists working in metal, glass, clay, fiber,and wood and to collect the papers of key figures in the history of American craft.

Recent Publications

It's All True: Imagining New York's East Village Art Scene of the 1980s (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland at College Park, 1999).