Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 7 sound files. Duration is 5 hr., 21 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: WalkingStick, Kay
label: Interviewer
content: Riedel, Mija, 1958-
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Bryn Mawr College
label: Names
content: Cannabis Gallery
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content: Danforth Foundation (Saint Louis, Mo.)
label: Names
content: Edward F. Albee Foundation
label: Names
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes
label: Names
content: Wenger Gallery
label: Names
content: Bach, Dirk, 1961-2012
label: Names
content: Echols, Michael
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content: Folwell-Turipa, Jody, 1942-
label: Names
content: Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943
label: Names
content: Joseph (Nez Percé Chief), 1840-1904
label: Names
content: Longfish, George C.
label: Names
content: McKaig, Margaret Emma
label: Names
content: McKaig, Murray Peterson
label: Names
content: Penny, David, (Illustrator)
label: Names
content: Sakiestewa, Ramona
label: Names
content: Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940-
label: Names
content: Spruance, Benton, 1904-1967
label: Names
content: Urdang, Bertha
label: Names
content: WalkingStick, Charles
label: Names
content: WalkingStick, Simon Ridge
label: Names
content: WalkingStick, Sinom Ralph
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content: Whitehorse, Emmi
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Cherokee artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Catholicism
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content: Christianity
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content: Feminism and art
label: Topic
content: Painting
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Native 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: WalkingStick, Kay
label: Interviewer
content: Riedel, Mija, 1958-
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
culture: label: Culture
content: Native American
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Kay WalkingStick (1935- ) is a Cherokee painter and professor in Jackson Heights, New York. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is an independent scholar in San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Items (Sound recording: 7 sound files (5 hr., 21 min.))
label: Extent
content: 105 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2011 December 14-15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.walkin11
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An oral history interview of Kay WalkingStick conducted 2011 December 14-15, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at WalkingStick's studio, in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: WalkingStick speaks of her childhood experiences and her parents; her grandfather Simon Ridge Walkingstick and jurisprudence; Dartmouth and Indian scholarships; how her parents met; her mother as a big influence; drawing and art in the family; her siblings; Syracuse; outdoors; Onondaga Valley; painting; winning a Scholastic Art Award; moving to Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania; attending Beaver; the 1950s; Pratt; review in Artnews; Danforth Foundation; Christianity; the women's movement; Cannabis Gallery; Native American heritage; Teepee Form and Chief Joseph; using wax; Dawes Commission; influences and artists; Catholicism; Italy; Bowling Green; sketchbooks; eroticism; Edward Albee's summer camp; Wenger Gallery; The Cardinal Points; being biracial; spirituality; Rome; abstraction and patterns; Il Cortile; Cairo; traveling; teaching; Cornell; Stony Brook; photography; technology; social and political commentary in art; changes to artwork over time; landscapes; mountains and the Rockies; Colorado; dialogues with God; symbols; art world; dealers; the WalkingSticks; Late Afternoon on the Rio Grande; art theory; drawing; diptych format; Venere Alpina; Sex, Fear and Aging; prints and books; and curiosity and humor. WalkingStick also recalls Simon Ralph WalkingStick, Margaret Emma McKaig, Charles WalkingStick, Murray Peterson McKaig, Benton Spruance, Michael Echols, Bear Paw, Bertha Urdang, Ramona Sakiestewa, Jody Folwell, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Emmi Whitehorse, George Longfish, David Penny, Dirk Bach, Bryn Mawr, and Marsden Hartley.