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Size: 34 sound files (7 hrs., 11 min.), digital, wav
Summary: An interview with Margo Machida conducted 2024 February 7, by Melissa Ho for the Archives of American Art, at Machida's home in Willimantic, Connecticut.
Machida, Margo
Size: 34 sound files (7 hrs., 11 min.), digital, wav
Summary: An interview with Margo Machida conducted 2024 February 7, by Melissa Ho for the Archives of American Art, at Machida's home in Willimantic, Connecticut.
Interviewee Margo Machida (1950- ) is an art historian, educator, curator, critic, and artist based in Willimantic, Connecticut. Born in Hawai'i, Machida was a founding member of the Godzilla Asian American Arts Network in 1990. She is a professor of art history and Asian American studies at the University of Connecticut.
Interviewer Melissa Ho (1975- ) is curator of 20th-century art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
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.
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This interview received Federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.
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