Oral history interview with Carol Eckert
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded 3 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 40 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Eckert, Carol
label: Interviewer
content: Lauria, Jo
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Anderson, Dale, 1944-
label: Names
content: Anderson, Doug, 1943-
label: Names
content: Blaine, Sandy
label: Names
content: Boyd, Karen Johnson
label: Names
content: Branford, Joanne Segal, 1933-1994
label: Names
content: Covey, Steven
label: Names
content: Docter, Marcia
label: Names
content: Eckert, Tom, 1942-
label: Names
content: Elliot, Lillian
label: Names
content: Garrett, John
label: Names
content: Koplos, Janet
label: Names
content: Lieberman, David
label: Names
content: Lieberman, Sarah
label: Names
content: Manhart, Marcia, 1943-
label: Names
content: McQueen, John, 1943-
label: Names
content: Minkowitz, Norma M., 1937-
label: Names
content: Niehues, Leon
label: Names
content: Okun, Barbara Rose
label: Names
content: Rapp, Joanne
label: Names
content: Sauer, Jane, 1937-
label: Names
content: Turk, Rudy H.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Fiber artists -- Arizona
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women textile 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: Eckert, Carol
label: Interviewer
content: Lauria, Jo
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Carol Eckert (1945- ) is a fiber artist from Tempe, Arizona. Jo Lauria is a curator and arts wrtier from Los Angeles, California.
function: label: Function
content: Artists' studios
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 48 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2007 June 18-19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.eckert07
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
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on-line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Carol Eckert conducted June 18-19, 2007 by Jo Lauria, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in the artist's home and studio in Tempe, Arizona.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Eckert speaks of moving from North Carolina to New York during her childhood; her interest in making things as a child; her love of reading and a particular interest in mythology, legends, and fairy tales; choosing to pursue painting as an art major at Arizona State University; working as a substitute teacher after graduation; teaching herself the needle arts; and teaching painting and drawing classes at a local community arts center.
label: Scope and Contents
content: She also discusses experimenting with clay; the process that guides her work; the influence of her painting training on her color and composition choices; her marriage to furniture maker Tom Eckert; the development of the basketry field over the past decades; participating in exhibitions and shows; teaching workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts; the cross-cultural animal symbolism present in her pieces; the working environment in her studio; the importance of craft publications; the development in her own work towards larger pieces; her commitment to the longevity and preservation of her work; and upcoming exhibitions.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Eckert recalls Steven Covey, Barbara Rose Okun, Jane Sauer, Sandy Blaine, Lillian Elliot, Joanne Segal Branford, John Garrett, John McQueen, Leon Niehues, Norma Minkowitz, Sarah and David Lieberman, Janet Koplos, Marcia Docter, Doug and Dale Anderson, Karen Johnson Boyd, Rudy Turk, Marcia Manhart, Joanne Rapp, and others.