Oral history interview with Noemí Ruiz
name: label: Interviewee
content: Ruiz, Noemi, 1931-
label: Names
content: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico
label: Names
content: Puerto Rican Artists Video Project
label: Interviewer
content: Cancel, Luis R.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Puerto Rico
label: Occupation
content: Graphic artists
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Puerto Rico
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Puerto Rico -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Women artists -- Interviews
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: Ruiz, Noemi, 1931-
culture: label: Culture
content: Puerto Rican artists
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Noemí Ruiz (1931- ) is a Puerto Rican painter, graphic artist, and professor. She was among the founding members of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Luis R. Cancel (1952- ) is a Puerto Rican arts administrator and artist from New York City, N.Y. Cancel is the President of Esperanto Internet Services, LLC. He is the former director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a scholar on 20th century Latin American and Puerto Rican art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items (5 video files (2 hrs., 18 min.), digital, mov)
label: Extent
content: 5 Items (5 video recordings (Betacam))
label: Extent
content: 39 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1997 Nov. 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ruiz97
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Video recordings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This interview was audited and edited by Benji de la Piedra in 2025.
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: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Noemi Ruíz conducted by Luis Cancel, 1997 Oct. 25- Nov. 1, for the Archives of American Art's Puerto Rican Artists Video Project.