Oral history interview with María Brito
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Brito, María (1947-)
label: Interviewer
content: Martínez, Juan A.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Florida -- Miami
label: Occupation
content: Installation artists -- Florida -- Miami
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Cuban American art
label: Topic
content: Cuban American artists
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women 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: Brito, María (1947-)
label: Interviewer
content: Martínez, Juan A.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: María Brito (1947-) is a sculptor from Miami, Florida. Born in Havana, Cuba.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 115 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1997 October 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brito97
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
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 Cuban born sculptor María Brito conducted 1997 October 25, by Juan A. Martínez, in Brito's home/studio, Miami, Florida, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Brito speaks of her birthplace, Havana, Cuba, and her early art education at the Edison School; her travels to Miami as part of the Peter Pan Project in 1961; her art studies at the Miami-Dade Community College and the University of Miami. She also comments on the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MOCHA) in New York, The Decade Show, her first exhibition in Miami at Gallery 24 in 1980, and other exhibitions.