Oral history interview with Lisa Gralnick
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 12 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hr., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Gralnick, Lisa, 1956-
label: Interviewer
content: Riedel, Mija, 1958-
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Kent State University -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Kent State University -- Students
label: Names
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Parsons School of Design
label: Names
content: Kounellis, Jannis, 1936-2017
label: Names
content: Lightman, Alan
label: Names
content: Matzdorf, Gary Bengier
label: Names
content: Mimlitsch-Gray, Myra
label: Names
content: Scherr, Mary Ann, 1931-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Wisconsin -- Madison
label: Occupation
content: Metal-workers -- Wisconsin -- Madison
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women educators
label: Topic
content: Jewelry making
label: Topic
content: Metal-work
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: Gralnick, Lisa, 1956-
label: Interviewer
content: Riedel, Mija, 1958-
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lisa Gralnick (1956- ) is a metalsmith and professor from Madison, Wisconsin. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is a curator and writer from San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12 Items (Sound recording: 12 sound files (7 hr., 4 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 111 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2007 October 29-30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gralni07
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Lisa Gralnick conducted 2007 October 29-30, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Gralnik's home, in Madison, Wisconsin.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Gralnick speaks of her father's illness; taking a jewelry-making class as a teenager; the honors college at Kent State; her master's thesis and the Cosmogonic Cycle; teaching enameling at Kent State to support her studio art; the metals program at Parsons School of Design; a black rubber house in upstate New York; creating structures out of black plastic; her introduction to computers; working with gold; drawing inspiration from physics and machinery; her fascination with dentistry tools; being a hands-on learner; satisfaction from the labor of art; working with metal; her methodological form of teaching; teaching a graduate class and focusing on body parts; the relationship between ambition and hard work; teaching in an art department as opposed to a craft department; her recent reliquary and jewelry work; poetic and musical influences; showing abstraction and emotion in her work; the creation of The Gold Standard pieces. Gralnick also recalls Mary Ann Scherr, Gary Bengier Matzdorf, Jannis Kounellis, Alan Lightman, Myra Mimlitsch Gray, and others.