Phillip Barcio interview of Gerald Williams
name: label: Creator
content: Barcio, Phillip
label: Names
content: AFRICOBRA (Group of artists)
label: Names
content: Williams, Gerald, 1941-
topic: label: Topic
content: African American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2017 by Phillip Barcio.
creator: label: Creator
content: Barcio, Phillip
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Phillip Barcio is an art journalist, fiction writer and filmmaker in Evanston, Ill. Gerald Williams (born 1941) is an artist from Chicago, Ill.. Williams, along with Jeff Donaldson, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jae Jarrell and Barbara J. Jones, formed the nucleus of the artists' group AfriCOBRA, or African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists.
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital, mp3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2017
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.barcphil
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: An audio recording of an interview with co-founder of AfriCOBRA, Gerald Williams, conducted by Phillip Barcio on August 2-3, 2017 as part of his research on Williams and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s for the Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, Ill. The interview was also used as a basis for an article by Barcio on Williams appearing in Hyperallergic 2017 November 13 and a Wikipedia page on Gerald Williams.