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Size: 3 video files (2 hrs., 50 min.), digital, mp4
Summary: An interview with Samia Halaby conducted 2022 April 1-6, by Melissa Ho for the Archives of American Art, at Halaby's studio in New York City.
Halaby, Samia, 1936-
Painter, Educator
Size: 3 video files (2 hrs., 50 min.), digital, mp4
Summary: An interview with Samia Halaby conducted 2022 April 1-6, by Melissa Ho for the Archives of American Art, at Halaby's studio in New York City.
Samia Halaby (1936- ) is a Palestinian abstract painter and digital artist based in New York City; she has also curated shows of and written scholarship of Palestinian art. Melissa Ho (1970- ) is curator of 20th century art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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.
English .
Funding for this interview was provided by the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
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