Oral history interview with Victor Mantilla Chalela
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Mantilla Chalela, Victor
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: The Ohio State University -- Students
label: Names
content: University of San Marcus (Lima, Peru) -- Students
topic: label: Occupation
content: Mosaicists
label: Topic
content: Mosaics -- Technique.
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Designers -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Mantilla Chalela, Victor
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Victor Mantilla Chalela is a designer and mosaicist from California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 30 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 July 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.chalel64
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 Victor Mantilla Chalela conducted 1964 July 28, by Mary McChesney for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Mantilla Chalela speaks of his art training at Ohio State University beginning in 1926 and in 1930 at the University of San Marcus in Lima, Peru; studying mosaic techniques and materials in Peru; and his work for the Federal Art Project in California.