Interview with Michael and Magdalene Frimkess
name: label: Interviewer
content: Mills, Magdalene
label: Interviewee
content: Frimkess, Michael, 1937-
label: Interviewee
content: Frimkess, Celia
label: Interviewee
content: Frimkess, Magdalena Suarez
topic: label: Topic
content: Ceramicists -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2001 by Magdalene Mills.
creator: label: Interviewer
content: Mills, Magdalene
label: Interviewee
content: Frimkess, Michael, 1937-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Magdalene Mills is an actress and ceramist. Michael Frimkess (1937-) was a leading innovator of the California fine art clay movement that grew up around Peter Voulkos and his "pot shop" at Otis Art Institute in the late 1950s. He often collaborated with his wife, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (1929-), a Venezuelan-born ceramist.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Items (sound cassettes (9 hrs.), analog.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2000 Feb. 27 - Apr. 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.millmagd
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Pop art
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Pop art -- California
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection contains six (90 min.) audio tapes of interviews of Michael and Magdalena (Suarez) Frimkess conducted by Magdalene Mills on 2000 Feb. 27, Mar. 15, and April 23. Also included in this interview is Celia Frimkess (Michael's mother). Mills was studying ceramic sculptor Michael Frimkess for her MA thesis at California State University, Fullerton. The donated tapes are part of her research that came to include Magdalena Frimkess, as well as her better-known husband, Michael Frimkess.