Oral history interview with Richard Marquis
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 57 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Marquis, Richard, 1945-
label: Interviewer
content: Riedel, Mija, 1958-
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Tasmanian School of Art
label: Names
content: University of California, Berkeley -- Students
label: Names
content: University of California, Los Angeles -- Faculty
label: Names
content: University of Washington -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Bauer, Fred
label: Names
content: Blakebrough, Les, 1930-
label: Names
content: Concannon, Bill
label: Names
content: Eubanks, John
label: Names
content: Fine, Jody
label: Names
content: Lipofsky, Marvin, 1938-2016
label: Names
content: Littleton, Harvey K.
label: Names
content: Marioni, Dante, 1964-
label: Names
content: Melchert, Jim, 1930-
label: Names
content: Mount, Nick
label: Names
content: Naess, Bob
label: Names
content: Nagle, Ron
label: Names
content: Pearson, John, 1940-
label: Names
content: Price, Kenneth, 1935-2012
label: Names
content: Spagnoli, Jerry
label: Names
content: Statom, Therman, 1953-
label: Names
content: Tagliapietra, Lino
label: Names
content: Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002
label: Names
content: Wax, Jack
label: Names
content: de Santillana, Ludovico
place: label: Place
content: Australia -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Washington (State)
label: Occupation
content: Glass artists -- Washington (State)
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
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: Marquis, Richard, 1945-
label: Interviewer
content: Riedel, Mija, 1958-
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Richard Marquis (1945- ) is glass artist and educator from Freeland, Washington. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is a curator and writer from San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Items (Sound recording: 9 sound files (4 hr., 57 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 81 Pages (Transcripts)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2006 September 16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.marqui06
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 Richard Marquis conducted 2006 September 16, by Mija Riedel, 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, in Freeland, Washington.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Marquis speaks of his childhood spent moving around Arizona, Colorado, and California; his lifelong affinity for collecting objects; attending University of California, Berkeley; the influence of seeing the shows "Abstract Expressionist Ceramics" at the University of California at Irvine in 1966 and "American Sculpture of the Sixties" at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1967; receiving a Fulbright grant to study glassblowing in Murano, Italy; experiences at Venini Fabbrica Glass Factory in Murano; teaching experiences at University of Washington, Seattle and UCLA; traveling throughout Australia to set up glass workshops; working as artist-in-residence at Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; establishing Marquis Deluxe Studios; large-scale installation collaborations with Therman Statom; the importance of teaching and sharing knowledge; the cyclical progression and diversity of his work; future plans to work less with glass and focus instead on daguerrotypes. Marquis also recalls Peter Voulkos, Ron Nagle, Marvin Lipofsky, James Melchert, Harvey K. Littleton, John Eubanks, John Pearson, Ludovico de Santillana, Lino Tagliapietra, Bob Naess, Fred Bauer, Nick Mount, Les Blakebrough, Jack Wax, Jody Fine, Therman Statom, Kenneth Price, Dante Marioni, Jerry Spagnoli, and Bill Concannon, among others.