Oral history interview with Celia Alvarez Muñoz
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 7 sound discs and 1 compact disc. Reformatted in 2010 as 14 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hrs., 22 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Muñoz, Celia Alvarez, 1937-
label: Interviewer
content: Cordova, Cary
label: Creator
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
label: Names
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
label: Names
content: Garcia, Rupert, 1941-
label: Names
content: Hayden, Dolores
label: Names
content: Huerta, Benito, 1952-
label: Names
content: Limón, Damiana Esparza
label: Names
content: Lippard, Lucy R.
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content: Massey, Robert, 1921-
label: Names
content: Ruiz, Vicky
label: Names
content: Souza, Al, 1944-
label: Names
content: Walker, Ashley, 1913-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Authors -- Texas
label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- Texas
label: Topic
content: Art -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Feminism and art
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
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: Muñoz, Celia Alvarez, 1937-
label: Interviewer
content: Cordova, Cary
label: Creator
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Celia Alvarez Muñoz (1937- ) is an artist from Arlington, Tex. Cary Cordova (1970- ) is an art historian from Austin, Tex.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 70 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2004 Feb. 7-28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.munoz04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Celia Alvarez Muñoz conducted 2004 Feb. 7-28, by Cary Cordova, for the Archives of American Art, in Arlington, Tex.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Muñoz speaks of her early childhood and close relationship to her maternal grandmother Damiana Esparza Limón; travels to California in high school; Father Rahm, the youth center, and the opportunity to go to college; Dr. Robert Massey who was an etcher and took Muñoz under his wing; her zeal graduating from Texas Western University; teaching art to school children; her marriage; experimenting with photography; the theory of deconstruction; being a writer; the "Enlightenment" series, which began in graduate school; spirituality and philosophy; Dolores Hayden and the University of California at Los Angeles program in architecture and urban planning; her consciousness of feminism; meeting Lucy Lippard and discussing her evolution; language and the multiple meanings of words; the significance of architecture within her work; the Dallas/Fort Worth airport project; the importance of her family and their support throughout her life; Xeroxing and use of transparencies; and the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas. Muñoz also recalls Al Souza, Ashley Walker, Rupert Garcia, Vicky Ruiz, Benito Huerta, and others.