Oral history interview with Mary Ceruti

Object Details

Occupation: Art museum directors -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis; Curators -- New York (State)
Topic: Women museum curators; Pandemics; COVID-19 (Disease)

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.

Biographical / Historical: Mary Ceruti is the Executive Director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ceruti was previously the director and chief curator of SculptureCenter in Long Island City, New York.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements: Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software)

Type: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Interviews; Video recordings

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 audio 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 audio recording. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Scope and Contents: An interview with Mary Ceruti conducted 2020 July 1, by Benjamin Gillespie, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project at Ceruti's office in the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.