Object Details
sova.aaa.allenj98
- General
- Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 3 minutes.
- Interviewee
- Allen, Jo Harvey, 1942-
- Interviewer
- Karlstrom, Paul J.
- Occupation
- Actors
- Performance artists
- Playwrights
- Topic
- Women artists
- 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.
- Interviewee
- Allen, Jo Harvey, 1942-
- Interviewer
- Karlstrom, Paul J.
- Sponsor
- Funding for the transcription of this interview is provided by the Pasadena Art Alliance. 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.
- Biographical / Historical
- Jo Harvey Allen (1942- ) is a performance artist, writer, and actress of Sante Fe, New Mexico.
- Extent
- 25 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 1998 April 21
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.allenj98
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Transcript available on line
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Jo Harvey Allen conducted 1998 April 21, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, at Allen's studio, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- Allen discusses her roles of writer, actress, and performance artist; her early career which included working at underground radio station KPPC as the first woman country music announcer; her views on feminism and the degradation of motherhood, describing her most creative act as the birth of her children; her childhood in Lubbock, Texas; life with husband Terry Allen, with whom she moved to Los Angeles where he attended Chouinard Art Institute; conducting interviews with waitresses as material for a photo book, which led to writing, producing, and acting in her own plays; her relationship with Terry Allen and working with him and the discovery of her artistic independence.
- Restrictions
- Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
AAA.allenj98
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AAA.allenj98
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- Record ID
- ebl-1596349834339-1596349834341-0

