Oral history interview with Santa Barraza
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 13 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Barraza, Santa
label: Interviewer
content: Cordova, Cary
label: Creator
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
label: Names
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
label: Names
content: Bailey, Ben
label: Names
content: Bustamante, Jorge
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content: De Rivera, José Ruiz, 1904-1985
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content: Delgado, Viola
label: Names
content: Dodson, Nora Gonzales
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content: Garza, Carmen Lomas
label: Names
content: Juarez, Isabel
label: Names
content: King-Hammond, Leslie, Dr. (1944)
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content: Orozco, Sylvia, 1954-
label: Names
content: Peña, Amado Maurilio, 1943-
label: Names
content: Quirarte, Jacinto, 1931-2012
label: Names
content: Reyna, Israel
label: Names
content: Ringgold, Faith (1930-2024)
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content: Schmidt, Maurice
label: Names
content: Starpattern, Rita
label: Names
content: Tibol, Raquel
label: Names
content: Trevino, Barbina Modesta
label: Names
content: Vargas, Kathy
label: Names
content: Wilson, Liliana, 1953-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Texas
label: Topic
content: Chicano artists
label: Topic
content: Chicano art movement
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content: Latino and Latin American artists
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content: Mexican American artists
label: Topic
content: Mexican American art
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
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: Barraza, Santa
label: Interviewer
content: Cordova, Cary
label: Creator
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Santa Barraza (1951-) is an artist from Kingsville, Texas. Cary Cordova (1970-) is an art historian from Austin, Texas.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 76 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2003 November 21-22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.barraz03
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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: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Santa Barraza conducted 2003 November 21-22, by Cary Cordova, for the Archives of American Art, in Kingsville, Texas.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Barraza speaks of her childhood, family and early education; picking cotton in the summer; the University of Texas, Kingsville; meeting Carmen Lomas Garza and learning graphic design; her daughter Andrea; involvement with Mayo, a Mexican-American Youth Organization; Austin, Tex. and the differences between UT Kingsville and UT Austin; and Acuña Rodolfo's book, "Occupied America: the Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation," 1972. Barraza also discusses Jacinto Quirarte and the first formal art history class on Mexican-American art; the formation of MAS, Mujeres Artistas del Suroeste; the Conferencia del Plástica Chicana, held September 13-16, 1979 in Austin, Texas; Con Safo; use of the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in her artwork; stories of witchcraft; La Llorona; MACLA, the Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, founded in 1989 in San Jose, California; teaching at Pennsylvania State University; her studio space in Kingsville, Texas; the distinction between Chicana and Latina; the visual artists Faith Ringgold and Leslie King Hammond whom Barraza admires; her travels to Oaxaca and other places; her book, "Santa Barraza, Artist of the Borderlands," 2001. Barraza also recalls Ben Bailey, Maurice Schmidt, José Rivera, Amado Peña, Israel Reyna, Sylvia Orozco, Barbina Modesta Treviño, Nora González Dodson, Rita Starpattern, Raquel Tibol, Jorge Bustamante, Liliana Wilson, Isabel Juárez, Viola Delgado, Kathy Vargas, and others.