Janet Koplos interviews
name: label: Creator
content: Koplos, Janet
topic: label: Occupation
content: Authors
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content: Ceramicists -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated in 2019 and 2023 by Janet Koplos.
creator: label: Creator
content: Koplos, Janet
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Janet Kolpos is an art historian and author. Koplos is the co-author of Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, an honorary fellow of the American Craft Council, and a contributing editor to Art in America magazine, where she was a staff editor for 18 years.
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content: 16 Gigabytes
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unitdate: label: Date
content: 2004-2023
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kopljane
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: The Janet Koplos interviews with artists dates from 2004-2023. Included are 156 digital sound recordings of interviews with American craft artists, mainly those that work with clay, created in preparation for her book, What Makes a Potter/Functional Pottery in America Today, Schiffer Publishing, 2018. zin terviews date from 2011-2014. Several interviews have corresponding transcripts. 

Also found are 55 digital interviews and transcripts conducted by Janet Koplos with writers, editors, artists, curators and other individuals conducted for a project with the New Art Examiner, Chicago, Illinois, 2013-2023. Also included is a digital transcript of an interview with Carol Goldberg conducted by Diane Thodos, date unknown, and an interview with Derek Guthrie conducted by Koplos on seven cassettes with accompanying transcript, 2004.