The HistoryMakers video oral history with Phoebe Beasley.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Phoebe Beasley.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 47 min., 19 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Beasley, Phoebe, -- 1943- -- Interviews. Beasley, Phoebe, -- 1943- African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312458

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Phoebe Beasley Phoebe Beasley
Other authors / contributors:	Beasley, Phoebe, 1943- interviewee. Brewington, Ron, 1946- interviewer. Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Ron Brewington, interviewer. Recorded Santa Monica , California 2007 April 18. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Collage artist Phoebe Beasley was born on June 3, 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Ohio University, receiving her B.F.A. degree in painting, with a minor in education, in June of 1965. She also earned a M.A. degree from Kent State University, specializing in oils on canvas, as well as prints and collage. Her works are featured in the personal collections of Oprah Winfrey, Anita Baker, Marla Gibbs, Tyler Perry, Byron Allen, Yvonne B. Burke, Dr. William Burke, Roger Penske, and Bill Cosby, as well as her mentor, HistoryMaker Maya Angelou. Beasley's commissions include being the official artist of the 1987 and 2000 Los Angeles Marathons, the 100 Black Men National Convention and the 2000 National Democratic Convention. She became the first African American female president of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Beasley's work honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was mounted by the Smithsonian Institution.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 47 min., 19 sec.)) : sound, color. 024719
Playing Time:	02:47:19
Production Credits:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey.