Oral history interview with Carlos Almaraz
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 8 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 14 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 56 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Almaraz, Carlos
label: Interviewer
content: Nieto, Margarita
label: Names
content: Flores, Elsa
topic: label: Topic
content: Mexican American art
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Mexican American artists
label: Topic
content: Street art
label: Topic
content: Chicano movement
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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Almaraz, Carlos
label: Interviewer
content: Nieto, Margarita
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Carlos Almaraz (1941-1989) was a Mexican born American mural painter from Los Angeles, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 154 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986 February 6-1987 January 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.almara86
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
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 Mexican born American artist Carlos Almaraz conducted 1986 February 6-1987 January 29, by Margarita Nieto, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Almaraz discusses his childhood and education; the development of his interest in art; his experiences living in New York City from 1965 to 1970; and his return to Southern California in the early 1970s. He speaks of his participation in the muralism movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s; his political involvement in the United Farm Workers movement; his personal art work (as opposed to collective work with the muralists); his trip to China in 1974; people he met in New York and southern California; and recent developments in the Los Angeles art world. The interview is concluded with Almaraz speaking of his wife Elsa Flores and their daughter Maya.