Melaragno, Biagio, Melaragno, Biagio
Arts administrator
Size: 3 sound files (53 min.), digital, wav
Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 53 min.
Summary: An interview of Biagio Melaragno conducted 1965 Nov. 8, by Geoffrey Swift, for the Archives of American Art.
Biagio Melaragno was the Rhode Island state director, for the Federal Art Project.
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.
Use requires an appointment.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Biagio Melaragno, 1965 Nov. 8. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
