Oral history interview with Juan Sánchez
name: label: Interviewer
content: Sánchez, Juan, 1954-
label: Interviewer
content: Franco, Josh T. (1985-)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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content: Mixed media (Art)
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content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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content: Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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content: Latino and Latin American artists
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content: Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York.
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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: Interviewer
content: Sánchez, Juan, 1954-
label: Interviewer
content: Franco, Josh T. (1985-)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Juan Sánchez (1954- ) is a printmaker, muralist, painter, and teacher in Brooklyn, New York.  Josh T. Franco (1985- ) is the National Collector, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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content: 6 Items (sound files (7 hr., 59 min.) Audio, digital, wav)
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content: 90 Pages (Transcript)
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content: 2018 October 1-2
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.sanche18
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: An interview with Juan Sánchez conducted 2018 October 1-2, by Josh T. Franco, for the Archives of American Art, at Sánchez studio, in Brooklyn, New York.
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content: Sanchez speaks of his childhood in Puerto Rican enclaves of Brooklyn; formative experiences with Nuyorican poets; early memories of Puerto Rico; his earliest interest in drawing from comic books; early art-making and art education experiences, including the Pratt Saturday program; encountering Taller Boricua during the time he studied at Cooper Union; drawing formative inspiration from En Foco's photography; flourishing after initial difficulties at Cooper Union; his graduate studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University; his early exhibition experiences; his negative experience of participating in Group Material's exhibition Americana; reflections on political art; his friendship with Ana Mendieta; his collaborations with MoCHA , INTAR gallery, and Exit Art; the development of his painting, photography, and collage aesthetics through graduate school; the personal and emotional dimension of his art-making process; his use of circles and photographs of heroic historical figures in his paintings; the development and execution of his public art commissions; the development of his teaching career; his experiences working at the Queens Museum education department and Cooper Union admissions department; specific controversies over the content of his work being shown at Princeton University and SUNY Stony Brook; the development and execution of his printmaking practice; and his reflections on the experience and importance of participating in an oral history interview. Sanchez also recalls Amiri Baraka, Sandra María Esteves, Louis Reyes Rivera, Pedro Pietri, Gilbert Hernandez, Jorge Soto, Hans Haacke, Reuben Kadish, Eugene Tulchin, Charles Biasiny, Leon Golub, Larry Fink, Robert Blackburn, Mel Edwards, Doug Ashford, Jimmie Durham, Nancy Spero, Lucy Lippard, Geno Rodriguez, Papo Colo, Jayne Cortez, Carl Andre, Ana Mendieta, Raquelín Mendieta, Noah Jemison, Inverna Lockpez, Nilda Peraza, James Luna, Julia Hirschberg, Susana Leval, Miguel Algarín, Jeanetter Ingberman, Jolie Guy, Susan Bloodworth, Zachary Fabri, Gilbert Cardenas, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Michael Brathwaite, Alfredo Jaar, Tomie Arai, Lorenzo Clayton, Joan Hall, Pepe Coronado, Maryanne Simmons, and Melquiades Rosario Sastre.