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Mary Swift papers, 1973-2004

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Series 4: Sound and Video Recordings, 1977-1995
2.3 Linear feet
Box 6; Shoebox 8-14

Included are 105 sound cassette tapes and two VHS videocassette tapes containing interviews conducted by Swift, radio programs, and panel discussions. Most of the interviews are with artists living and working in the Washington, D.C. area. Discussion topics center on artists' work, art exhibitions, public art, events and the art scene in the area. Some interviews were conducted in New York City with artists who have moved there from Washington, D.C., and discussion topic is comparison between the two cities. Several recordings demonstrate Swift's low level of trust for her recording equipment.
Recordings are arranged chronologically with undated items filed at the end.
Description Container Select
Interview with Howard Mehring, 1977 April 8
1 Sound cassette
8
1
Interview with Michael Clark, 1977 April 16
1 Sound cassette
8
2
Interview with Michael Clark, 1977 April 22
1 Sound cassette
8
3
Interview with Howard Mehring, 1977 July 1
1 Sound cassette
8
4
Interview with Arthur Hall Smith, 1977 July 22
1 Sound cassette
8
5
Interview with Mary Swift and Clarissa Wittenberg for Washington Review on the Arts radio series, 1978 January 6
1 Sound cassette
8
6
Interview with Alex Castro, 1978 February 1
2 Sound cassettes
8
7-8
Interview with Howard Mehring, 1978 February 8-9
2 Sound cassettes
8
9-10
Interview with Anne Truitt, 1978 June 19
1 Sound cassette
8
12
Martin Puryear, Clarissa Wittenberg, and Mary Swift, 1978 July 13
1 Sound cassette
8
13
Interview with Howard Halle, 1978 September 28
1 Sound cassette
8
14
Interview with Alex Castro for Washington Review on the Arts radio series, 1978 September 29
1 Sound cassette
Cassette also lists interview with Fiske Conyers on side 1, but no recording was found.
8
11
Interview with Genna Watson, 1978 October 4
1 Sound cassette
8
15
Interview with Gene Davis, 1978 October 8
1 Sound cassette
8
16
Interview with Vanessa Guerin, 1978 October 11
1 Sound cassette
8
17
Interview with John McCarty, 1978 October 13
1 Sound cassette
8
17
Interview with Val Lewton and Joe Shannon for Washington Review on the Arts radio series, 1978 November 1
1 Sound cassette
8
18
Interview with William Christenberry for Washington Review on the Arts radio series, 1978 December 12
1 Sound cassette
8
19
Interview with David Robertson, 1978 December 13
1 Sound cassette
8
20
Interview with Bill Christenberry, 1978 December
1 Sound cassette
9
1
Interview with Sy Gresser, 1979 January 5
1 Sound cassette
9
2
Interview with Al and Walter Hopps, 1979 January 10
1 Sound cassette
9
3
Interview with Rebecca Davenport, 1979 January 10-28
3 Sound cassettes
9
4-6
Interview with Joe Shannon, 1979 February 24
1 Sound cassette
9
7
Interview with Thomas Downing, 1979 March 7
1 Sound cassette
9
8
Interview with Mac Whitney, 1979 March 19
1 Sound cassette
9
9
Interview with Jim Sanborn, 1979 April 9
1 Sound cassette
9
10
Interviews with Beth Burkhardt and Nade Haley, 1979 April 19
1 Sound cassette
9
11
Interview with Bill Dutterer, 1979 April 23
1 Sound cassette
9
12
Interviews with Charlotte Robinson and Judy Bass, 1979 April 24
1 Sound cassette
9
13
Interview with Bill Dutterer, 1979 May 17-18
2 Sound cassettes
9
14-15
Interview with Michael Clark, 1979 May 20-June 13
3 Sound cassettes
9
16-18
Interview with Anne Truitt, 1979 June 19
1 Sound cassette
9
19
Interview with Lila Katzen, 1979 June 21
1 Sound cassette
9
20
Interview with Sidney Guberman, 1979 June 28
1 Sound cassette
10
1
Interview with Rebecca Davenport, 1979 July 10
1 Sound cassette
10
2
Interview with Bill Dutterer, 1979 August 23
1 Sound cassette
10
3
Interview with Terry Braunstein, 1979 October 5
1 Sound cassette
10
4
Interview with Pat Moss, 1979 November 16
1 Sound cassette
10
5
Interview with Bill Christenberry and Interview with Clair List, 1980 January 11
1 Sound cassette
10
6
Interview with Michael Clark, 1980 January 21
2 Sound cassettes
10
7-8
Interview with Mark Clark, 1980 February 9
1 Sound cassette
10
9
Interview with Michael Clark, 1980 February 24
1 Sound cassette
10
10
Interview with Nizette Brennan, 1980 February 24
1 Sound cassette
10
10
Interview with Retha Walden Gambaro, 1980 February
1 Sound cassette
10
9
Interview with Dickson Carroll, 1980 March 14
1 Sound cassette
10
11
Interview with John Dickson, 1980 March 20-April 10
2 Sound cassettes
10
12-13
Interview with Leonard Cave, 1980 April 9
1 Sound cassette
10
11
Panel discussion "Sculpture and Landscape Architecture" at the 11th International Sculpture Conference, 1980 June 4-7
1 Sound cassette
10
14
Interview with Joyce Tenneson, 1980 July 12
1 Sound cassette
10
15
Interview with Robin Rose and Kevin MacDonald, 1980 October 2
2 Sound cassettes
10
16-17
Interview with Paul Reed, 1980 October 8
1 Sound cassette
10
18
Interview with Bob Lennon, 1980 December 14
1 Sound cassette
10
19
Interview with Wilfred Brunner, 1981 January 4
1 Sound cassette
10
19
Interview with Miranda McClintic, 1981 February 4
1 Sound cassette
10
20
Interview with Walter Kravitz and Kathleen Ewing, 1981 March 22
1 Sound cassette
11
1
Interview with an unnamed female artist, 1981 March
1 Sound cassette
11
1
Interview with Nizette Brennan, 1981 June
1 Sound cassette
11
2
Interview with Hilda Thorpe, 1981 August 21
1 Sound cassette
11
2
Interview with Robert Indiana, 1981 August 25
1 Sound cassette
11
3
Interview with Bill Dutterer, 1981 October 8
1 Sound cassette
11
4
Interviews with Chris Gardner and Henry Schoebel, 1981 October 25-25
1 Sound cassette
12
2
Interview with Lucinda Childs, 1981 October 28
1 Sound cassette
11
5
Interviews for Metaphor: New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors (1982), 1981 December 3-18
2 Sound cassettes
11
6-7
Interview with Janet Bell Schmuckal, 1982 March 16
1 Sound cassette
11
9
Interview with Chris Burden and Interview with Judy Miller, 1982 March 27-April 19
1 Sound cassette
11
10
Interview with Robin Rose, 1982 April 1
1 Sound cassette
11
9
Interview with Walter Hopps, 1982 April 22
1 Sound cassette
11
11
Interview with an unnamed male artist with a connection to the Nourse Gallery, 1982 May 6
1 Sound cassette
11
10
Interview with Arnold Kramer, 1982 May 27
1 Sound cassette
11
12
Interview with Patricia Dubroof, 1982 August 19
1 Sound cassette
11
13
Interview with Arnold Kramer, 1982 September 7
2 Sound cassettes
11
13-14
Interview with Michael Clark, 1982 September 27
1 Sound cassette
11
15
Interview with Judy Miller, 1982 October 3
1 Sound cassette
11
16
Interview with Ellen MacDonald, 1982 October 4
2 Sound cassettes
11
16-17
Interview with Allen D. Carter, 1982 October 21
1 Sound cassette
11
18
Interview with Janet Saad-Cook, 1982 October 27
1 Sound cassette
11
17
Interview with Henry Schoebel, 1982 November 19
1 Sound cassette
11
19
Interview with Judy Miller, 1982 November 22
1 Sound cassette
11
19
Interview with George Hemphill, 1983 April
1 Sound cassette
11
20
Interview with John Van Alstine, 1983 May 31
1 Sound cassette
12
1
Interviews with Michael Clark and Al Carter, 1983 August 5
1 Sound cassette
12
1
Interview with Ellen MacDonald, 1984 January
1 Sound cassette
12
2
Interview with Michael Clark, 1984 April 28
1 Sound cassette
12
19
Interview with Joyce Tenneson, 1984 June
1 Sound cassette
12
3
Interview with Dennis O'Neil, 1985 December 20
1 Sound cassette
12
20
Interview with Susie Firestone, Alan Soone, 1986 April 24
1 Sound cassette
12
20
Interview with Michael Platt, 1986 November 30-1987 January 28
2 Sound cassettes
12
4-5
Interview with Percy Martin, 1987 January 28
1 Sound cassette
12
5
Interview with Miriam Schapiro, 1987 October
1 Sound cassette
12
6
Art for the 80s, 1987
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
6
16
Interview with William Willis, 1988 January 28
1 Sound cassette
12
7
Interview with Michelle Parkerson, 1988 March 5
1 Sound cassette
12
8
Interview with Andrew Hudson, 1988 April 20
1 Sound cassette
12
9
Interview with Claudia DeMonte, 1988 April 27
1 Sound cassette
12
10
Interview with Jock Reynolds, 1988 May 4
1 Sound cassette
12
11
Interviews with Rex Weil and Constance "Zinnia" Maravell, 1988 June 2
1 Sound cassette
12
12
Interview with Jack Shainman and Interview with Bill Dutterer, 1988 June 8
1 Sound cassette
12
13
Interviews with Henry Schoebel and Ellen MacDonald, 1988 June 9
1 Sound cassette
12
14
Interview with Maria Sao Schlumberger, 1988 June 9
1 Sound cassette
12
15
Interview with Joseph Walker and Chris Ursitti, 1988 June 17
1 Sound cassette
12
16
Interview with Joyce Tenneson, 1988 June 18
1 Sound cassette
12
17
Interview with Jock Reynolds, 1988 July 21
1 Sound cassette
12
18
Interview with Bill Warrell, 1988 September 7
1 Sound cassette
13
1
Interview with Joyce Tenneson, 1988 September 11
1 Sound cassette
13
2
Interview with Keith Morrison, 1988 September
1 Sound cassette
13
3
Interviews with Robert Stackhouse and Mary Beth Edelson, 1988 October 11
1 Sound cassette
13
4
Interview with Chris Gardner, 1989 January 30
1 Sound cassette
13
5
Interview with David Furchgott, 1989 January
1 Sound cassette
13
6
Interview with Francoise Yohalem, 1989 February 27
1 Sound cassette
13
7
Interview with Joseph Kaempfer, 1989 March 6
1 Sound cassette
13
8
Interview with Nizette Brennan, 1989 March 8
1 Sound cassette
13
9
Interview with Sal Fiorito, 1989 March 17
1 Sound cassette
13
10
Interview with Alex Simpson, 1989 March 21
1 Sound cassette
13
11
Interview with John McCarty, 1989 July 23
1 Sound cassette
13
12
Interview with Tom Nakashima, 1989 July 25
2 Sound cassettes
13
13-14
Interview with Foon Sham, 1989 October 26
1 Sound cassette
13
15
Interview with John Grazier, 1991 August 21
1 Sound cassette
13
16
Interview with Andrea Pollan, 1991 September 3
1 Sound cassette
13
17
Interview with Alice Thorson, 1991 October 8
1 Sound cassette
13
18
Interview with Judy Byron, 1995
1 Sound cassette
11
8
Interview with Jacob Kainen, circa 1981
1 Sound cassette
14
1
Museum of Temporary Art recordings, circa 1979-1980
2 Sound cassettes
14
2-3
"Watts; 1)Mas 2)Lauguarne; 1)Processional 2)Ups", undated
1 Sound cassette
14
4
Interview with Colden Florance, undated
1 Sound cassette
14
5
Interview with Daniel Brush and Ellen MacDonald, circa 1988
1 Sound cassette
14
6
Art on the Line: An Interview with Kevin MacDonald, undated
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
6
17
"Power of the Dreamer," Jimmy Townes The Trance Band, 1985
14
7
Unidentified, undated
1 Sound cassettes (microcassette)
14
8
Unidentified, undated
1 Sound cassette
14
9

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