Oral history interview with Norman Akers
name: label: Interviewee
content: Akers, Norman
label: Interviewer
content: Clark, Laura, 1953-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Kansas
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Oklahoma
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Kansas -- Lawrence
label: Topic
content: Native American artists
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: Akers, Norman
label: Interviewer
content: Clark, Laura, 1953-
culture: label: Culture
content: Osage
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Norman Akers (Osage; 1958-) is an artist and educator based in Lawrence, Kansas and Fairfax, Oklahoma. His landscape paintings and prints draw from tribal history, geography, and nature, which blend with contemporary Native life and culture. He teaches at the University of Kansas.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewer Laura Marshall Clark (1953-) is an Indigenous scholar, curator, and educator based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (audiovisual files (3 hrs., 20 min.), digital, mp4)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2024 June 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.akers24
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Norman Akers conducted 2024 June 30, by Laura Clark for the Archives of American Art, at Akers' home in Fairfax, Oklahoma.­