Oral history interview with Ester Hernández
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hernandez, Ester, 1944-
label: Interviewer
content: San Miguel, Melissa, 1986-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
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content: Latino and Latin American 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: Hernandez, Ester, 1944-
label: Interviewer
content: San Miguel, Melissa, 1986-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ester Hernández (1944-) is a San Francisco, California-based printmaker known for her activist works that highlight agricultural and farm labor issues in California, especially in the San Joaquin Valley as related to Mexican and Yaqui workers.

Melissa San Miguel (1986-) is a PhD student in art history at the University of Maryland; she has previously worked for SFMOMA on the Mujeres Muralistas project.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (audiovisual files (3 hrs., 35 min.), digital, mp4)
label: Extent
content: 97 Pages (Transcript)
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content: Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software) [Kit 2: iPad GG8DV85GQ16M + Plantronics Calisto P7200 1VY9TN
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2021 November 15 and 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hernan21
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Video recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Ester Hernández conducted 2021 November 15 and 17, by Melissa L. San Miguel for the Archives of American Art, at Hernandez's home in San Francisco, California.