Oral history interview with Glen Kaufman
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 4 minidiscs as 12 digital sound files. Duration is 5 hr., 29 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Kaufman, Glen
label: Interviewer
content: Shea, Josephine, 1958-
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Cranbrook Academy of Art -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Cranbrook Academy of Art -- Students
label: Names
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Reserve Officers Training Corps
label: Names
content: Allrich, Louise
label: Names
content: Constantine, Mildred
label: Names
content: Cook, Camille J.
label: Names
content: Grotell, Maija
label: Names
content: Johnston, Meda Parker
label: Names
content: Lambert, Ed
label: Names
content: Larsen, Jack Lenor
label: Names
content: Liebes, Dorothy
label: Names
content: McCutchen, Earl
label: Names
content: Page, Charlene
label: Names
content: Rossbach, Ed
label: Names
content: Strengell, Marianne, 1909-1998
label: Names
content: Thompson, Bill
place: label: Place
content: Denmark -- description and travel
label: Place
content: Europe -- description and travel
label: Place
content: Illinois -- Chicago -- Description and Travel
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content: India -- description and travel
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content: Japan -- Description and Travel
label: Place
content: Ohio -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Japan -- Kyoto
label: Topic
content: Textile artists -- Georgia -- Athens
label: Topic
content: Textile artists -- Japan -- Kyoto
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: Kaufman, Glen
label: Interviewer
content: Shea, Josephine, 1958-
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Glen Kaufman (1932- ) is a textile artist who lives and works in Athens, Georgia and Kyoto, Japan. Josephine Shea (1958- ) is curator of the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House in Detroit, Michigan.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12 Items (Sound recording: 12 sound files (5 hr., 29 min.))
label: Extent
content: 86 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2008 January 22-February 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kaufma08
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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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: Oral history interview with Glen Kaufman conducted 2008 January 22 and February 23 by Josephine Shea, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America at Kaufman's home in Athens, Georgia.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Kaufman speaks of his childhood in Chicago; earning his B.A. in education in Wisconsin and meeting his wife; joining the ROTC and moving to Ohio; attending Cranbrook Academy of Art; living and studying in Denmark; traveling through Western Europe; working at the Liebes Studio in New York; teaching at Cranbrook for about 40 years; working in Japan; using metal leaf and wax in his art; moving from large to miniature textiles; his glove exhibition; visiting India; gallery exhibitions in Japan; the difference between university-trained artists and artisans; the impact of travel and international influences on his work; the art community in Kyoto; using Japanese dancers in his exhibitions; incorporating traditional Korean and Japanese materials and techniques into his work. Kaufman also recalls Charlene Page, Bill Thompson, Maija Grotell, Marianne Strengell, Dorothy Liebes, Jack Lenor Larsen, Meda Parker Johnston, Earl McCutchen, Ed Lambert, Mildred Constantine, Louise Allrich, Ed Rossbach, Camille Cook, and others.