Oral history interview with Joan Snyder
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 6 memory cards. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 18 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Snyder, Joan, 1940-
label: Interviewer
content: Richards, Judith Olch
label: Names
content: Bykert Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
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content: Heresies Collective, Inc.
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content: Hirschl & Adler Galleries
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content: Parsons School of Design -- Faculty
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content: Rutgers University -- Students
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content: School of Visual Arts (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty
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content: Women Against War
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content: Cammer, Maggie
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content: Fink, Larry, 1941-
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content: Lippard, Lucy R.
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content: Snyder-Fink, Molly
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content: Wilke, Ulfert, 1907-1987
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: AIDS (Disease) and the arts
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content: Art, Abstract
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content: Feminism
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content: Feminism and art
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content: Poverty
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content: Social justice
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content: Artists (LGBTQ)
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content: Lesbian artists
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content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
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: Snyder, Joan, 1940-
label: Interviewer
content: Richards, Judith Olch
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Joan Snyder (1940- ) is an abstract artist in Brooklyn, New York. Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former executive director of iCI in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Items (Sound recording: 6 sound files (5 hr., 18 min.), digital, wav)
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content: 91 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2010 February 25-26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.snyder10
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Joan Snyder conducted 2010 February 25-26, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at Snyder's home and studio in Brooklyn, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Snyder speaks of her childhood and education, growing up in a Jewish household in Brooklyn; education at Douglass College at Rutgers University, New Jersey; work with anti-poverty programs; her involvement in the wave of feminism, WAC (Women Art Collective), and Women Against War; Snyder's work on the magazine "Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics"; relationship with ex-husband, photographer Larry Fink; Snyder's important early showing at Bykert Gallery and Hirschl & Adler; the works Small Symphony for Women (1974), Resurrection (1977), Love's Pale Grapes (1982), Apple Tree Mass (1983), Beanfield with Music for Molly (1984), Savage Dreams, (1981-82), Women in Camps (1988), Morning Requiem for the Children (1987-88), Faces, Journey of the Souls (1993), Cherry Tree (1993), and her work into the 21st century; themes in her work that refer to the AIDS crisis, the treatment of women and female sensibility, lives of children, and religion; recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2007; her teaching experience at Parsons and School of Visual Art (SVA). Snyder also recalls Ulfred Wilke, Lucy Lippard, and various individuals associated with the Feminist/women's movement, daughter Molly Snyder-Fink, and partner Maggie Cammer.