Oral history interview with Joy Episalla
name: label: Interviewee
content: Episalla, Joy
label: Interviewer
content: Carr, C.
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content: Fierce Pussy (Artists' group)
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content: Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: AIDS (Disease) and the arts
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content: Women artists
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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.
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content: Episalla, Joy
label: Interviewer
content: Carr, C.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Joy Episalla is a multi-disciplinary artist in New York, New York. Interviewer Cynthia Carr (1950- ) is a writer in New York, New York.
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content: 16 Items (sound files (5 hrs., 16 min.), digital, wav)
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content: 118 Pages (Transcript)
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content: 2016 February 23 and March 17
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.episal16
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Interviews
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content: Oral history interview with Joy Episalla, conducted 2016 February 23 and March 17, by Cynthia Carr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Episalla's home and studio in New York, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview with Joy Episalla, conducted by Cynthia Carr for the Archives of American Art, at Episalla's home in New York, New York on February 23, March 7 and 17, 2016. Episalla speaks of her childhood in Yonkers, New York; early experiences with art-making, photography and theatrical production; earning a BFA from California College of the Arts; moving to the East Village in 1979 and Hoboken in 1982; her AIDS activism in the 1990s with ACT UP, The Marys, and fierce pussy; caring for and losing friends to HIV/AIDS; retrospective histories and exhibitions of her activist work; and her artwork in the 2000s; Episalla also recalls Carrie Yamaoka, Charles Gill, Beverly D'Andrea, Robert Bordo, Mark Morris, Vanessa Jackson, David Wojnarowicz, Tom Rauffenbart, Barbara Hughes, Stephen Machon, BC Craig, Tim Hamilton, Michael Cunningham, Maxine Wolf, Sarah Schulman, Jim Hubbard, Frank Moore, and others.