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Oral history interview with Maren Hassinger, 2021 November 24

Hassinger, Maren, 1947-

Performance artist, Directors (performing arts), Sculptor

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Collection Information

Size: 18 Items, wav files (4 hrs., 26 min.), digital, wav

Summary: An interview with Maren Hassinger conducted 2021 November 24, by Uchenna Itam for the Archives of American Art, at Hassinger's studio in New York, New York.­

Biographical/Historical Note

Maren Hassinger (1947- ) is an African American artist in New York known for sculpture, performance, and public art that use natural and industrial materials. She was also an educator and is the director emerita of the Rinehart School of Graduate Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

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 .

How to Use This Collection

This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.

The Archives of American Art makes its Oral History Program interviews available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. Quotation, reproduction and publication of the recording is governed by restrictions. If an interview has been transcribed, researchers must quote from the transcript. If an interview has not been transcribed, researchers must quote from the recording. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Maren Hassinger, 2021 November 24. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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