Oral history interview with Cynthia Bringle
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 20 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bringle, Cynthia, 1939-
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
label: Names
content: Alfred University -- Students
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content: Anderson Ranch Arts Center
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content: Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
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content: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts -- Students
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content: Penland School of Handicrafts
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content: Brown, Jane Brennan, 1931-
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content: Brown, William J. (William Joseph), 1923-1992
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content: Ford, Bonnie Willis, 1907-1976
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content: Kariher, Hunter
label: Names
content: Morgan, Lucy, 1889-1981
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content: Stanford, Joy
label: Names
content: Stanford, Verne
topic: label: Occupation
content: Ceramicists -- North Carolina
label: Occupation
content: Art school directors -- North Carolina
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- North Carolina
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women ceramicists
label: Topic
content: Women educators
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
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: Bringle, Cynthia, 1939-
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Cynthia Bringle (1939- ) is a potter, in Penland, N.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 51 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1992 January 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bringl92
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/bringl92.htm
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Cynthia Bringle conducted 1992 January 22, by Liza Kirwin, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bringle discusses her childhood and education in Memphis, Tennessee; her admiration for Memphis artist Dorothy Sturm; meeting Francis Merritt, the director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and his assistant William (Bill) Brown; attending Haystack in Liberty, Maine in 1960 as a scholarship student; her graduate studies in ceramics at Alfred University; attending a Shoji Hamada workshop in Seattle in 1963; building the first gas kiln at the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina; teaching at Penland; establishing a pottery studio in Tennessee; Brown's management style as the director of Penland from 1962 to 1983, and conflicts with the Board of Trustees that led to his resignation; Verne Stanford's tenure as director of Penland from 1984 to 1989; Hunter Kariher's role as the director of Penland after Stanford's resignation; and Penland in comparison with other craft schools including Haystack, Arrowmont, and Anderson Ranch. She recalls Lucy Morgan (the founder of Penland), Bonnie Ford (Penland administrator), Jane Brown, Joy Stanford, Harvey Littleton, and others.