Oral history interview with Lenore Chinn
name: label: Interviewee
content: Chinn, Lenore (1949-)
label: Interviewer
content: Gillespie, Benjamin, 1988-
label: Names
content: Pandemic Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- California -- San Francisco
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Pandemics
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content: COVID-19 (Disease)
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content: Racism
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content: AIDS (Disease)
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content: Asian American art
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content: Asian American artists
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content: Chinese American art
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content: Chinese American artists
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content: Asian American painters
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content: Asian American photographers
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content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
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content: Women photographers
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: Chinn, Lenore (1949-)
label: Interviewer
content: Gillespie, Benjamin, 1988-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lenore Chinn (1949- ) is a Chinese American painter, photographer, and queer rights activist based in San Francisco, California. Chinn co-founded the Lesbians in the Visual Arts and Queer Cultural Center and has been an active member of the Asian American Women Artists Association.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (sound file (22 min.) Audio, digital, m4a)
label: Extent
content: 7 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2020 July 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.chinn20
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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
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 Lenore Chinn conducted 2020 July 30, by Benjamin Gillespie, for the Archives of American Art's Art Pandemic Oral History Project at Chinn's home in San Francisco, California.