Object Details
sova.aaa.lacy90
- General
- Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 39 min.
- Interviewee
- Lacy, Suzanne
- Interviewer
- Roth, Moira
- Creator
- Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project
- Names
- Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project
- Occupation
- Performance artists -- California
- Topic
- Performance art
- Feminism and art
- Women artists
- Women performance 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. Funding for this interview was provided by the Margery and Harry Kahn Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund of New York.
- Interviewee
- Lacy, Suzanne
- Interviewer
- Roth, Moira
- Creator
- Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project
- Sponsor
- 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
- Suzanne Lacy (1945- ) is performance artist from California.
- Extent
- 90 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 1990 Mar. 16-Sept. 27
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.lacy90
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Suzanne Lacy conducted 1990 Mar. 16-Sept. 27, by Moira Roth, for the Archives of American Art, Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project, in Berkeley, Calif.
- Lacy discusses her childhood; early undergraduate work in zoology and medicine at California State University, Fresno; her decision to study in the feminist art program under Judy Chicago; her feminist activities at California Insitute for the Arts with Miriam Schapiro; her role in the women's art movement in Los Angeles; the evolution of her work as a performance artist and specific pieces performed in Los Angeles, La Jolla, Ithaca, N.Y., and Minneapolis.
AAA.lacy90
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AAA.lacy90
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- Record ID
- ebl-1596367890013-1596367890016-0

