Oral history interview with Joey Kirkpatrick
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Kirkpatrick, Joey
label: Interviewer
content: Herman, Lloyd E.
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Art Institute of Chicago -- Student
label: Names
content: Des Moines Art Center
label: Names
content: Iowa State University -- Students
label: Names
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Pilchuck School
label: Names
content: University of Iowa -- Students
label: Names
content: Burford, Byron, 1920-2011
label: Names
content: Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
label: Names
content: Chihuly, Dale, 1941-
label: Names
content: Cohen, Reba
label: Names
content: Demetrion, James
label: Names
content: Doty, Mark
label: Names
content: Dove, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1946
label: Names
content: Edwards, Steven Dale
label: Names
content: Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966
label: Names
content: Handler, Audrey
label: Names
content: Hinds, Chuck
label: Names
content: Mace, Flora, 1949-
label: Names
content: Moore, Ben
label: Names
content: Morris, William, 1957-
label: Names
content: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
label: Names
content: Patrick, Peggy
label: Names
content: Ragovin, Howard
label: Names
content: Scanga, Italo, 1932-2001
label: Names
content: Schiele, Egon, 1890-1918
label: Names
content: Tagliapietra, Lino
label: Names
content: Vigeletti, Sylvia
place: label: Place
content: Iowa -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Topic
content: Ceramics -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Sculpture -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Glass art
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: Kirkpatrick, Joey
label: Interviewer
content: Herman, Lloyd E.
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Joey Kirkpatrick (1952- ) is a glass artist from Seattle, Washington. Lloyd E. Herman (1936- ) is a curator and former director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery of Art and is currently from Seattle, Washington.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files (2 hr., 2 min.), digital, wav, 2 5/8 in.)
label: Extent
content: 51 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2005 August 17-18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kirkpa05
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Joey Kirkpatrick conducted 2005 August 17-18, by Lloyd E. Herman, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the artist's home and studio, which she shares with Flora Mace, in Seattle, Washington.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Ms. Kirkpatrick discusses her childhood in Des Moines, Iowa, as the third daughter among four; her early interest in art and, beginning in fifth grade, working at the Des Moines Art Center; her mother's creativity and love for art and design; visiting her aunt Elaine in Chicago and attending adult classes at the Art Institute of Chicago; seeing an Egon Schiele show at the Des Moines Art Center and its influence on her; her sense, even at an early age, that she was going to be an artist; going to college at the University of Iowa and getting a BFA in drawing; working in ceramics at the University of Iowa and studying under her mentor, Howard Ragovin; beginning to make sculptures out of chicken wire and papier-mâché and becoming interested in three-dimensional forms and planes; her most profound artistic influences, including Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder, and Alberto Giacometti; meeting Steven Dale Edwards during her last year in college and learning how to blow glass from him; blowing glass at a facility geared towards ceramic engineers at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, after college; working at the Art Center throughout and continuing to paint while living with her grandmother; working at a daycare center where she functioned as an art therapist; seeing an advertisement in Craft Horizons magazine for Pilchuck Glass School; working as a tree topper in Des Moines to get the money to go to Pilchuck; showing up at Pilchuck with an armful of her drawings; meeting Flora Mace, her collaborator and life partner, at Pilchuck; how the two eventually came to collaborate and cosign their work; and how they work together. A more in-depth discussion of the pair's lifelong collaboration is discussed in a joint interview of Kirkpatrick and Mace. Kirkpatrick also recalls Byron Burford, Peggy Patrick, Reba Cohen, Mark Doty, Jim Demetrion, Dale Chihuly, Chuck Hinds, Italo Scanga, Bill Morris, Ben Moore, Sylvia Vigeletti, Audrey Handler, and Lino Tagliapetra, and others.