Oral history interview with Amalia Mesa-Bains
name: label: Interviewee
content: Mesa-Bains, Amalia
label: Interviewer
content: Zavala, Adriana, 1964-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Installation artists -- California -- San Juan Bautista
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Chicano artists
label: Topic
content: Women educators
label: Topic
content: Political activists
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Installations (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: Mesa-Bains, Amalia
label: Interviewer
content: Zavala, Adriana, 1964-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Amalia Mesa-Bains (1943- ) is is a visual artist and educator in San Jan Bautista, Calif. Interviewer Adriana Zavala (1964- ) is is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Items (sound files (5 hrs., 5 min.) Audio, digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 101 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Recorded on Tascam DR- 100MKII R000329
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2019 Nov. 3 and 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mesa19
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Amalia Mesa-Bains conducted 2019 Nov. 3 and 4, by Adriana Zavala, for the Archives of American Art, at Mesa-Bains's studio in San Juan Bautista, Calif.