Interview with Alice Denney
name: label: Interviewee
content: Denney, Alice, 1922-2023
label: Interviewer
content: Hopps, Walter
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
topic: label: Topic
content: Curators -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
label: Topic
content: Women museum curators -- Washington (D.C.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred from the National Museum of American Art, 1985
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Denney, Alice, 1922-2023
label: Interviewer
content: Hopps, Walter
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alice Denney is an arts administrator and curator in Washington, D.C.
function: label: Function
content: Art festivals
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette (sound recording)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1976 May 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dennalic
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Alice Denney conducted by Walter Hopps for the National Museum of American Art. Denney speaks of her organization of two Washington, D.C. art Happenings: the "Pop Festival," held in conjunction with an exhibition, "The Popular Image," sponsored by the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, April 18 - May 1, 1966; and the "Now Festival," April 26 - May 1, 1966. 

She recalls Robert Rauschenberg's performance pieces including PELICAN (1963), LINOLEUM (1966), SPRING TRAINING (1965), and MAP ROOM (1965).