Oral history interview with Emma Amos
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 5 sound files. Duration is 3 hr., 27 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Amos, Emma, 1937-2020
label: Interviewer
content: Jones, Patricia Spears, 1951-
label: Names
content: Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists)
label: Names
content: Heresies Collective, Inc.
label: Names
content: Spiral (Group of artists)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: African American artists
label: Topic
content: African American painters
label: Topic
content: African American printmakers
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
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: Amos, Emma, 1937-2020
label: Interviewer
content: Jones, Patricia Spears, 1951-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Emma Amos (1937-2020) was a painter and printmaker in New York, New York. Patricia Spears Jones (1951- ) is a poet and writer in Brooklyn, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items (Sound recording: 5 sound files (3 hr., 27 min.))
label: Extent
content: 52 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2011 November 19-26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.amos11
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 is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Emma Amos conducted 2011 November 19-26, by Patricia Spears Jones, for the Archives of American Art, at Amos' studio, in New York, New York.