Oral history interview with Judy Chicago
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 compact discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 40 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Chicago, Judy, 1939-
label: Interviewer
content: Richards, Judith Olch
label: Names
content: ACA Galleries
label: Names
content: LewAllen Contemporary (Gallery)
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content: Bergen, Jeffrey, 1955-
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content: Bullard, E. John (Edgar John), 1942-
label: Names
content: Copeland, John
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content: Dobbins, Norman
label: Names
content: Dobbins, Ruth
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content: Flack, Audrey
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content: Hopkins, Henry, 1928-2009
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content: LaMonte, Karen, 1967-
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content: Lemon, Jack
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content: LewAllen, Arlene
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content: Lu, Jie, 1958-
label: Names
content: Lucie-Smith, Edward
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content: Marisol, 1930-2016
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content: McFadden, David Revere
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content: Neel, Alice, 1900-1984
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content: Perkins, Flo
label: Names
content: Pruitt, Tom
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content: Rodee, Susannah
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content: Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978
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content: Saint-Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002
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content: Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-
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content: Semmel, Joan, 1932-
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content: Taylor, Mary, 1947-
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content: Thompson, Viki D., 1947-
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content: Woodman, Donald
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content: Youdelman, Nancy, 1948-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Installation artists -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Performance artists -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Topic
content: Feminism and art
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content: Art -- Technique
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content: Women artists
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content: Women performance artists
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content: Women painters
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content: Women sculptors
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content: Women authors
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: Chicago, Judy, 1939-
label: Interviewer
content: Richards, Judith Olch
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Judy Chicago (1939- ) is a feminist artist and author who lives and works in Belen, New Mexico. Interviewer Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former executive director of iCI in New York, New York.
function: label: Function
content: Artists' studios -- New Mexico
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 74 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2009 August 7-8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.chicag09
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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
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Judy Chicago conducted 2009 August 7 and 8, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at Chicago's home and studio, in Belen, New Mexico.
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content: Chicago speaks of her work since the late 1980s, having previously discussed her early life and works; printmaking projects with various print studios around the country; giving archived documents to important museums; creating a foundation with her husband Donald Woodman to protect the legacy of their art; the non-profit organization she started in 1978, Through the Flower; her studio practices and her most practiced techniques; keeping a regular schedule; her interest in collaborative projects such as The Dinner Party [1974-1979], the Birth Project [1980-1985], the Holocaust Project [1985-1993] and Resolutions: A Stitch in Time [1994-2000]; working with various textile and glass artists; feeling a kin with other female artists, like Nikki de Saint Phalle and Marisol Escobar; the responsibility she feels to share underrepresented information; her enjoyment of the process of making art and the hope that she creates art that is not bound by time; her relationships with galleries though the years including the ACA Galleries in New York and LewAllen Contemporary in Santa Fe; her intention in making art was not create proactive or controversial art; various teaching positions; her interest in combining text and images in works like Song of Songs [1997-1999]; her more current interest in glass; experimenting with the techniques of casting and etching to achieve her desired images; her want to change institutional policies that underrepresent women artists in museums and the absence of images of women by women artists. Chicago also recalls Henry Hopkins, Mary Ross Taylor, Susannah Rodee, John Bullard, Jack Lemon, Alice Neel, Edward Lucie-Smith, John Copeland, Harold Rosenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Jeffery Bergen, Audrey Flack, Joan Semmel, Nancy Youdelman, David McFadden, Viki Thomson Wylder, Tom Pruitt, Arlene LewAllen, Flo Perkins, Norman and Ruth Dobbins, Karen LaMonte, Lu Jie and others.