Oral history interview with Elsa Rady
Object Details
- General
- Originally recorded on 4 memory cards as 11 digital sound files. Duration is 5 hr., 50 min.
- Interviewee
- Rady, Elsa, 1943-
- Interviewer
- Riedel, Mija, 1958-
- Creator
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Names
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Occupation
- Ceramicists -- California -- Los Angeles
- Topic
- Women artists
- Women ceramicists
- 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
- Rady, Elsa, 1943-
- Interviewer
- Riedel, Mija, 1958-
- Creator
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Sponsor
- Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.
- Biographical / Historical
- Elsa Rady (1943- ) is a ceramist in Los Angeles, California. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is a writer and independent scholar in San Francisco, California.
- Extent
- 11 Items (Sound recording: 11 sound files (5 hr., 50 min.), digital, wav)
- 158 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 2010 August 12-13
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.rady10
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Transcript available online.
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Elsa Rady conducted 2010 August 12 and 13, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Rady's home and studio, in Los Angeles, California.
- Restrictions
- Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
- Record ID
- ebl-1596376833021-1596376833023-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
Oral history interview with Elsa Rady, 2010 August 12-13, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
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