Interviews with Artists
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Roberts, Colette, 1910-
setName: label: See more items in
content: Colette Roberts Papers and Interviews with Artists
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 5-10; 5.5 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959-1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.robecoli, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The series is arranged as 3 subseries:

Subseries 8.1: Card Index and Notes, 1964-1970

Subseries 8.2: Transcripts, 1963-1970

Subseries 8.3: Sound Recordings, 1959-1971
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains taped interviews with artists, a card index of the interview series, and a few notes and transcripts related to the interviews. 

 Most of the recordings in this series are interviews with artists that Roberts created during a class she taught at New York University between 1957 and 1971 called "Meet the Artist." In this class, she brought her students to the studios of working artists to interview them about their work, and in the early 1960s, Roberts began recording these interviews on audio reels. Also found is a tape in which Roberts describes her intentions with the "Meet the Artist" program. Other recordings in this series include interviews with Chryssa, Adolph Gottlieb, and Louise Nevelson for a series Roberts called "The Presence of the Artist," for which interviews were transcribed and edited by their subjects. A few of the recordings of Marcel Duchamp were not created by Roberts, including three interviews and various lectures and performances by Duchamp. Miscellaneous recordings of Roberts' own classes and lectures are also found, mostly scattered on the second sides of some of the tapes with artist interviews. Some of the interviews are in French.