Oral history interview with Lonnie Holley
name: label: Interviewee
content: Holley, Lonnie
label: Interviewer
content: Franco, Josh T. (1985-)
label: Names
content: Pandemic Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Georgia
label: Occupation
content: Musicians -- Georgia
label: Topic
content: COVID-19 (Disease)
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content: COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects
label: Topic
content: COVID-19 (Disease) and the arts
label: Topic
content: Pandemics
label: Topic
content: African American artists
label: Topic
content: African American sculptors
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: Holley, Lonnie
label: Interviewer
content: Franco, Josh T. (1985-)
culture: label: Culture
content: African American musicians
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lonnie Holley (1950-) is an improvisational multidisciplinary artist and musician who is active across the United States. He began his career with carved sandstone sculptures in Birmingham, Alabama during the 1980s and has become known for the found-object sculptural environments he creates as well as his folk music.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item ((29 min.), digital, mp4)
label: Extent
content: 7 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2020 July 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.holley20
objectType: label: Type
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: Video recordings
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 with Lonnie Holley conducted 2020 July 29, by Josh Franco, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project at Grocery On Home in Atlanta, Georgia.