Object Details
sova.aaa.schira01
- General
- Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 22 min.
- Interviewee
- Schira, Cynthia, 1934-
- Interviewer
- Mensing, Margo, 1941-
- Creator
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Names
- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts -- Faculty
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Rhode Island School of Design -- Students
- Topic
- Fiber artists -- New York (State) -- Interviews
- Tapestry
- Women artists
- Decorative arts
- Weaving
- 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
- Schira, Cynthia, 1934-
- Interviewer
- Mensing, Margo, 1941-
- 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. 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
- Cynthia Schira (1934- ) is a fiber artist from Westport, N.Y. Margo Mensing (1941- ) is a fiber artist from Gansevoort, N.Y.
- Extent
- 52 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 2001 July 25-26
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.schira01
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Cynthia Schira conducted 2001 July 25-26, by Margo Mensing, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Schira's home and studio, in Westport, N.Y.
AAA.schira01
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AAA.schira01
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- Record ID
- ebl-1596378683839-1596378683841-0

