Oral history interview with Mindy Weisel
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr.; 28 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Weisel, Mindy
label: Interviewer
content: Berman, Anne Louise, 1975-2016
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New City
label: Topic
content: Holocaust survivors
label: Topic
content: Children of Holocaust survivors
label: Topic
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Weisel, Mindy
label: Interviewer
content: Berman, Anne Louise, 1975-2016
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mindy Weisel (1947- ) is a painter from Washington, D.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound discs (1 hr.; 28 min.), digital., 2 5/8 in.)
label: Extent
content: 36 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2001 September 2-November 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.weisel01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Mindy Weisel conducted 2001 September 21-November 1, by Anne Louise Bayly, for the Archives of American Art, in Washington, D.C.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Weisel speaks of her parents and their surviving the Holocaust; her mother showing her beauty as a child; being the daughter of survivors; wanting to draw as a child; studying art in college; her marriage and motherhood; balancing the role of wife, mother and artist; September 11th; her Ella Fitzgerald series; her time at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; process of working; creating Lily Let's Dance and It's Ok Kid; writing her books "Daughters of Absence", "Touching Quiet", "The Rainbow Diet"; art and survival.