Item Information
Title: Interview with Kara Walker
Date: 2005 February 11-March 1
Physical Details: 4 sound cassettes ; 5 hr., 32 min., 33 sec.
Description: Recordings stop and start and have hum, tape hiss, faint buzzing or background noise. Tape 01, Side 02 recording ends 00:39:27. Tape 02, Side 02 recording ends 00:23:32. Tape 04, Side 01 recording ends 00:19:47. Tape 04, Side 02 is blank. Dodie Kazanjian interviews Kara Walker. Discussion topics are wide-ranging and include Walker's life, family, personal relationships, education, career, teaching, her artwork and its subject matter, slavery, racism, her artwork projects and upcoming exhibitions, and work process. People mentioned include Larry Walker, Radcliffe Bailey, Joann Jones, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Michael Ray Charles, Klaus Bürgel.
Creator: Walker, Kara, 1969-
Forms part of: Dodie Kazanjian papers, 1949-2017, bulk 1980-2017
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: Kara Walker and Dodie Kazanjian. Interview with Kara Walker, 2005 February 11-March 1. Dodie Kazanjian papers, 1949-2017. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Availability: This item has been digitally reformatted. It is available by requesting an appointment in the Archives of American Art's reading rooms, or in certain situations as a Reproduction Request.
Digital ID: 24008