Pandemic Oral History Project
by Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Since Dec 9, 2020 17:11 UTC
To document the cascade of public health, social, and financial crises set in motion by COVID-19, the Archives of American Art created an oral history series that recorded responses to the global pandemic across the American art world. Conducted virtually, the Pandemic Oral History Project features eighty-five short-form interviews with a diverse group of artists, teachers, curators, and administrators. Averaging twenty-five minutes long, each interview provides a firsthand account of and urgent insights into the narrator’s triumphs and tragedies in the summer of 2020. With more than thirty hours of recorded video and audio, the series bears witness to an unprecedented era as it unfolded in real time.
Categories: Arts, History
Tags: archives, Archives of American Art, artist interviews, contemporary art, covid-19, Living Artists, oral history, pandemic, pandemic project, smithsonian
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