Oral history interview with Lorraine O'Grady
name: label: Interviewee
content: O'Grady, Lorraine
label: Interviewee
content: Richards, Judith Olch
topic: label: Occupation
content: Conceptual artists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: African American artists
label: Topic
content: African American women 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: O'Grady, Lorraine
label: Interviewee
content: Richards, Judith Olch
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lorraine O'Grady (1934-2024) was a conceptual artist whose use of text, photographs, film, and installation examined the foundations of human connection. She also wrote about Black women's experiences in the arts, both as depicted subjects and emboldened makers, and she spent most of her career in New York, NY.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former executive director of iCI in New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Items (Sound recording, master: 9 memory cards (8 hr., 17 min.), secure digital, 1.25 in.)
label: Extent
content: 142 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2010 Apr. 12-15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ogrady10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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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.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Lorraine O'Grady conducted 2010 Apr. 12-15, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at O'Grady's home and studio in New York, N.Y.