Oral history interview with Winifred Lutz
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound disc. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wma files. Duration is 7 hrs., 21 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lutz, Winifred
label: Interviewer
content: Berman, Avis
label: Creator
content: United States. General Services Administration. Design Excellence and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. General Services Administration. Design Excellence and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Environmental artists -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
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content: Women sculptors
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: Lutz, Winifred
label: Interviewer
content: Berman, Avis
label: Creator
content: United States. General Services Administration. Design Excellence and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Winifred Lutz (1942- ) is a sculptor in Huntington Vally, Penn. Lutz is known for her site-integrated sculpture installations and handmade paper techniques.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (WMA files (7 hr., 21 min.), digital)
label: Extent
content: 119 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2010 Jan. 30-Feb. 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lutz10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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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 Winifred Lutz conducted 2010 Jan. 30 and Feb. 3, by Avis Berman, for the Archives of American Art's U.S. General Services Administration, Design Excellence and the Arts oral history project, at Lutz's home and studio, in Huntington Valley, Penn.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Lutz speaks of her upbringing and childhood; education and teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art; interest in environmental art; education at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Cranbrook; studying abroad in Paris and extensive discussion about her travels there; interests in Japanese papermaking both two-dimensionally and later three-dimensionally, the processes involved therewithal; teaching job at Aquinas College; various outdoor pieces including Drawing Dock Creek [2008], Sorting the Residue of Years [2009], Flux & Interruption [2001] the creation of various landscapes, including one at the CDC in Atlanta and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburg [The Reclamation Garden]. both in great detail. Lutz also recalls John Clague, Toshiko Takaezu, Stanley William Hayter, Timothy Barrett, David von Schlegell, Samia Halaby, Gretna Campbell, Inge Druckrey, Erwin Hauer, and others.