Oral history interview with Samia Halaby
name: label: Interviewee
content: Halaby, Samia
label: Interviewer
content: Ho, Melissa
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Political activists
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Palestinian 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: Halaby, Samia
label: Interviewer
content: Ho, Melissa
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Samia Halaby (1936- ) is a Palestinian abstract painter and digital artist based in New York City; she has also curated shows of and written scholarship of Palestinian art. Melissa Ho (1970- ) is curator of 20th century art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (video files (2 hrs., 50 min.), digital, mp4)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software) [Kit 5: iPad GG7DVRXMQ16M + Plantronics Poly Sync 20 EE75M6]
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2022 April 1-6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.halaby22
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Samia Halaby conducted 2022 April 1-6, by Melissa Ho for the Archives of American Art, at Halaby's studio in New York City.­