Interview with Judithe Hernandez
name: label: Creator
content: Hernandez, Judithe
label: Interviewer
content: Rangel, Jeffrey J.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
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content: Chicano artists
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content: Chicano art movement
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content: Mural painting and decoration
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content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
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content: Women educators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2001 by Jeffrey Rangel. From 1996-2000, Jeffrey Rangel was contracted by the AAA to conduct oral histories of Latino and Latina artists who worked in Los Angeles and were part Chicano art groups such as Los Four and Asco. This interview was conducted by Rangel independently for his own research. The interview was transcribed with funding from the Smithsonian Latino Initiative funds.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hernandez, Judithe
label: Interviewer
content: Rangel, Jeffrey J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Judithe Hernandez (1948- ) is a painter and educator from Los Angeles, Calif. and Chicago, Ill. Hernández was a leading Latina artist in Los Angeles during the 1970s, an important decade in the development of the Chicano mural movement and Latino art in general. Hernández now teaches in Chicago, but during her time in Southern California she came to represent both Chicana and feminist viewpoints, and was an articulate spokesperson for those interests and the rights of individual artists to transcend political identity in their careers.
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content: 2 Items (sound cassettes (145 min.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 74 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998 Mar. 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.hernjudi
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Chicana painter and educator Judithe Hernandez conducted in Chicago, Ill., 1998 Mar. 28, by Jeffrey Rangel.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hernandez discusses her family background and encouragement to become professional; training at Otis Art Institute and admiration there for African-American teacher Charles White; the intellectual influence of Carlos Almaraz's father on her as well as him, artists in L.A. such as Magu and Patssi Valdez; working with Judy Baca on the Great Wall of Los Angeles project; description and characterization of members of Los Four and sexism in the work of some Chicano male artists; her disillusionment over the reception of Chicano art and her own work in particular, the fact that she was not included in the big Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors exhibition and catalogue; becoming an educator; and the debate with Shifra Goldman.