Oral history interview with Alvia Wardlaw
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wardlaw, Alvia J.
label: Interviewer
content: Lasser, Ethan W.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Texas -- Houston
label: Occupation
content: Art museum curators -- Texas -- Houston
label: Topic
content: African American artists
label: Topic
content: Women art historians
label: Topic
content: African American art museum curators
label: Topic
content: Women museum curators
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: Wardlaw, Alvia J.
label: Interviewer
content: Lasser, Ethan W.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alvia Wardlaw (1947- ) is an art historian and curator based in Houston, Texas. She has been a significant proponent of African American art across the country, and her exhibitions including The Quilts of Gee's Bend have been massively popular and influential. Wardlaw serves on the Scholarly Advisory Board of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewer Ethan Lasser (1977- ) is a curator and art historian based in Boston, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 15 Items (sound files (3 hrs., 34 min.), digital, wav)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Redorded on Tascam DR-100MKIII 1910012
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2023 November 16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wardla23
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Alvia Wardlaw conducted 2023 November 16, by Ethan Lasser for the Archives of American Art, at University Museum, Texas Southern University.­