Oral history interview with Will Stokes
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Stokes, Will
label: Interviewer
content: Lindsey, Jack
label: Names
content: Brandywine Workshop
label: Names
content: Fabric Workshop
label: Names
content: Prints in Progress
topic: label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Textile designers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Textile design
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: African American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Stokes, Will
label: Interviewer
content: Lindsey, Jack
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Will Stokes is a textile designer and printmaker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 38 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990 June 20
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.stokes90
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
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: An interview of Will Stokes conducted 1990 June 20, by Jack Lindsey, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Stokes speaks of his training in printmaking at the Brandywine Workshop and with Prints in Progress before joining the Fabric Workshop; the transition from working on paper to working on fabric; the development of his work; and some of the projects completed at the Fabric Workshop.