Oral history interview with Ted Muehling
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 5 digital sound files. Duration is 4 hr., 38 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Muehling, Ted
label: Interviewer
content: Milosch, Jane
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Pratt Institute -- Students
label: Names
content: Buxbaum, Gerda, 1949-
label: Names
content: Celmins, Vija, 1938-
label: Names
content: Czeresko, Deborah
label: Names
content: Drutt, Helen Williams
label: Names
content: Grcic, Konstantin, 1965-
label: Names
content: Gulotta, Gerry
label: Names
content: Harding, Ingrid
label: Names
content: Hobson, Jade
label: Names
content: Kiss, Gabriella
label: Names
content: Mauer, Ingo
label: Names
content: Morris, Robert Lee, 1947-
label: Names
content: Smith, Kiki, 1954-
label: Names
content: Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924
label: Names
content: Zeisel, Eva, 1906-2011
place: label: Place
content: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Topic
content: Industrial design
label: Topic
content: Jewelers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Jewelry making
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: Muehling, Ted
label: Interviewer
content: Milosch, Jane
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ted Muehling (1953- ) is a designer of jewelry and decorative objects in New York, New York. Jane Milosch (1964- ) is a curator from Silver Spring, Maryland.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 109 Pages (Transcript)
label: Extent
content: 5 Items (Sound recording: 5 sound files (4 hr., 38 min.), digital, wav)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2007 November 17-18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.muehli07
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Ted Muehling conducted 2007 November 17-18, by Jane Milosch, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Muehling's studio, in New York, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Muehling speaks of visiting New York City as a child; attending Pratt for industrial design; working with molds; working in Germany; winning the Coty fashion award for his jewelry; learning to blow glass; working at Corning; visiting museums as a child and projects in his father's basement workshop; drawing inspiration out of his materials; the rich art history of Europe; working with plastic and wood; working with assistants; the impact of travel on his work; various gallery exhibitions; working with well-known designers; creating functional and inspiring pieces; the American craft market; drawing inspiration from dreams; the humor in his art; the strengths and limitations of various mediums. Muehling also recalls Gerry Gulotta, Eva Zeisel, Ingrid Harding, Kiki Smith, Deborah Czeresko, Gabriella Kiss, Gerda Buxbaum, Jade Hobson, Ingo Mauer, Vija Celmins, Louis Sullivan, Konstantin Grcic, Robert Lee Morris, Helen Drutt, and others.