Overview
Collection Information
Size: 2 Items, audiovisual files (3 hrs., 2 min.), digital, mp4; 57 Pages, Transcript
Summary: An interview with Lenore Chinn conducted 2023 November 27 and December 11, by Ann Cvetkovich for the Archives of American Art, at Chinn's home in San Francisco, California.
Biographical/Historical Note
Lenore Chinn (1949- ) is a Chinese American painter, photographer, and queer rights activist based in San Francisco, California. Chinn co-founded the Lesbians in the Visual Arts and Queer Cultural Center and has been an active member of the Asian American Women Artists Association.
Interviewer Ann Cvetkovich (1957- ) is a scholar and oral historian currently based in Ottawa, Ontario.
Provenance
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.
Language Note
English .
Funding
Funding for this interview was provided by the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
