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Oral history interview with Rolando Briseño

Archives of American Art

Oral history interview with Rolando Briseño, 2004 March 16-26, Transcript
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Object Details

sova.aaa.brisen04
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw928221474-79d2-4b81-a945-2dba8a76ba6d
General
Due to technical problems the interview was recorded on both compact disc and mini disc.
Originally recorded on 2 sound discs and 2 compact discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 26 min.
Interviewee
Briseño, Rolando, 1952-
Interviewer
Cordova, Cary
Names
Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
Amado, Jesse, 1951-
Barraza, Santa
De Syzslo, Fernando
Del Viller, Melita
Kanjo, Kathryn
Mazuca, Roland
Mondini-Ruiz, Franco, 1961-
Orozco, Sylvia, 1954-
Pace, Linda
Ramirez, Chuck
Von Honts, Jackie
Topic
Painters -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Interviews
Mexican American artists
Catholicism
Computer Art
Latino and Latin American artists
Gay artists
Artists (LGBTQ)
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
Briseño, Rolando, 1952-
Interviewer
Cordova, Cary
Sponsor
This interview is part of the series "Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas," supported by Federal funds for Latino programming, administered by the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives. The digital preservation of this interview received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Biographical / Historical
Rolando Briseño (1952-) is a Chicano artist and activist from San Antonio, Texas. Theseme of his work often refelects social injustices, queer indentity, and food in culture. Briseño's mediums of work include painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and public art.
Cary Cordova (1970-) is an art historian from Austin, Texas.
Extent
73 Pages (Transcript)
Date
2004 March 16-26
Archival Repository
Archives of American Art
Identifier
AAA.brisen04
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Rights
The Archives of American Art makes its Oral History Program interviews available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. Quotation, reproduction and publication of the recording is governed by restrictions. If an interview has been transcribed, researchers must quote from the transcript. If an interview has not been transcribed, researchers must quote from the recording. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Existence and Location of Copies
Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
Genre/Form
Sound recordings
Interviews
Scope and Contents
An interview with Rolando Briseño conducted 2004 March 16 and 26, by Cary Cordova, for the Archives of American Art, in San Antonio, Texas.
Briseño speaks of his family background; as a child going to Mexico during the summer; growing up in San Antonio; visiting the Witte Museum, taking art classes there; Jackie von Honts, a special tutor of Briseño; scholarship to Cooper Union in New York; Catholicism; Melita del Villar and realizing "Christian mythology"; exchange program with University of Texas, Austin and La Pontifica Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Peru; calling himself Chicano; passion for food; traveling around Europe; politics and its influence; coming to terms with his sexuality; graduate school at Columbia University; interest in boxing; involvement in Con Safo; working on a computer as opposed to painting; and the Historic and Design Review Commission of San Antonio. Briseño also recalls Roland Mazuca, Fernando de Syzslo, Santa Barraza, Sylvia Orozco, Kathryn Kanjo, Linda Pace, Jesse Amado, Chuck Ramirez, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, and others.
Restrictions
This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.
AAA.brisen04
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw928221474-79d2-4b81-a945-2dba8a76ba6d
AAA.brisen04
AAA
Record ID
ebl-1596353421977-1596353421980-0
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