Fiber Art: Following the Thread, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution


	Fiber Art : Following the Thread
Created on July 5, 2002	Interview Sound Excerpts	These interviews were funded by Nanette L. Laitman as part of the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Art in America.
	Kay Sekimachi (born 1926) Interview conducted by Suzanne Baizerman in Berkeley, California, July and August 2001.	In this excerpt, Sekimachi talks about studying with Trude Guermonprez and discovering non- functional fiber.
		Sekimachi considers the limitations of fiber.
	Norma Minkowitz (born 1937) Interview conducted by Patricia Malarcher in Westport, Connecticut, September and November 2001.	Minkowitz talks about her use of fiber as "drawing three-dimensionally with line."
		She considers fiber's expressive qualities.
	Cynthia Schira (born 1934) Interview conducted by Margo Mensing in Westport, New York, July 2001.	Schira talks about her association with Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine.
		She talks about the qualities that set fiber apart from other crafts media.
	Peggie Hartwell (born 1939) Interview conducted by Patricia Malarcher in New York City, June 2002.	Quilter Peggie Hartwell recalls growing up in Springfield, South Carolina, in a family of farmers, quilters, and storytellers.
		Hartwell talks about quilting as "a living art."