Oral history interview with Margarita Cano
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 55 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Cano, Margarita, 1932-
label: Interviewer
content: Martínez, Juan A.
label: Names
content: Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture (Miami, Fla.)
label: Names
content: Miami-Dade Public Library
label: Names
content: Cano, Pablo
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Florida -- Miami
label: Occupation
content: Librarians -- Florida -- Miami
label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Florida -- Miami
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern
label: Topic
content: Cuban American art
label: Topic
content: Cuban American artists
label: Topic
content: Expatriate artists -- Florida -- Miami
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
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: Cano, Margarita, 1932-
label: Interviewer
content: Martínez, Juan A.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Margarita Cano (1932-) is a painter, librarian, and curator in Miami, Florida. Born in Havana, Cuba.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 45 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998 April 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cano98
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Margarita Cano conducted 1998 April 22, by Juan A. Martínez, in Cano's home, Miami, Florida, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Cano recounts her interest in art, which developed after graduating as a science major at the University of Havana; arriving in Miami around 1962, where she found work at the main Public Library of Dade County, instituting an arts program focusing on the work of African American and Cuban American artists, which included building a permanent collection of local artists' work and arranging exhibitions; her work on the board of the Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture, including organizing the pivotal exhibition "The Miami Generation: Nine Cuban American Artists" in 1983; her own art, mostly painting on wood using a miniature style and reflecting mostly Cuban scenes; her son Pablo Cano, a successful artist; and her views on her Cuban background and her North American cultural identity.