Oral history interview with Suzanne Lacy
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 39 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lacy, Suzanne
label: Interviewer
content: Roth, Moira
label: Creator
content: Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Performance artists -- California
label: Topic
content: Performance art
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content: Feminism and art
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content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women performance 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. Funding for this interview was provided by the Margery and Harry Kahn Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund of New York.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Lacy, Suzanne
label: Interviewer
content: Roth, Moira
label: Creator
content: Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Suzanne Lacy (1945- ) is performance artist from California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 90 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990 Mar. 16-Sept. 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lacy90
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
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Suzanne Lacy conducted 1990 Mar. 16-Sept. 27, by Moira Roth, for the Archives of American Art, Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project, in Berkeley, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Lacy discusses her childhood; early undergraduate work in zoology and medicine at California State University, Fresno; her decision to study in the feminist art program under Judy Chicago; her feminist activities at California Insitute for the Arts with Miriam Schapiro; her role in the women's art movement in Los Angeles; the evolution of her work as a performance artist and specific pieces performed in Los Angeles, La Jolla, Ithaca, N.Y., and Minneapolis.