Oral history interview with Jo Harvey Allen
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 3 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Allen, Jo Harvey, 1942-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Actors
label: Occupation
content: Performance artists
label: Occupation
content: Playwrights
label: Topic
content: Women artists
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: Allen, Jo Harvey, 1942-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jo Harvey Allen (1942- ) is a performance artist, writer, and actress of Sante Fe, New Mexico.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 25 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998 April 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.allenj98
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Jo Harvey Allen conducted 1998 April 21, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, at Allen's studio, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Allen discusses her roles of writer, actress, and performance artist; her early career which included working at underground radio station KPPC as the first woman country music announcer; her views on feminism and the degradation of motherhood, describing her most creative act as the birth of her children; her childhood in Lubbock, Texas; life with husband Terry Allen, with whom she moved to Los Angeles where he attended Chouinard Art Institute; conducting interviews with waitresses as material for a photo book, which led to writing, producing, and acting in her own plays; her relationship with Terry Allen and working with him and the discovery of her artistic independence.