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Selma H. Burke interviews
Collection
Identifier: 633
Content Description
Selma H. Burke was an African American teacher and sculptress who designed the portrait for the Roosevelt dime and who founded the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The collection consists of 5 audiocassette tapes of interviews conducted by Clifton H. Johnson with Burke in her home in Pennsylvania from May 7-9, 1991. A separate interview conducted on February 20, 1991 is present on a VHS videotape.
Dates:
Other: 1991
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Elizabeth Catlett papers
Collection
Identifier: 078
Scope and Contents
The papers of Elizabeth Catlett, sculptor, graphic artist, teacher, and political activist, consist of correspondence, audiotape cassettes, biographical data, news clippings, notes, photographs, exhibition catalogs, posters, writings, and a reel-to-reel film. The papers have been arranged into three general groups: correspondence, non-correspondence and oversized items, and is arranged alphabetically according to topic and chronologically within each file unit. Non-correspondence includes...
Dates:
Created: 1959-1984; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
National Conference of Artists records
Collection
Identifier: 620
Content Description
The National Conference of Artists (NCA) was founded March 28-29,1959, at Dean Sage Hall of Atlanta University during the opening of the Atlanta University Eighteenth Annual Art Exhibition. The records consist of correspondence, reports, minutes and agenda, conference materials, exhibition materials, speeches, and publications. Membership information is also included, as are news clippings, financial records, and memorabilia. Audiocassette tapes include speeches, business meetings, and...
Dates:
Other: 1943-1993
Found in:
Amistad Research Center