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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell
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| Other authors / contributors: | Pindell, Howardena, 1943- interviewee.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2007 January 5.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Art professor and curator Howardena Pindell was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on April 14, 1943. She received her B.F.A. degree from Boston University and her M.F.A. degree from Yale University. Pindell earned two honorary doctorates, from the Massachusetts College of Art and from the Parson School of Design in New York. She began her career in the art world as the first African American Museum Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at the New York Museum of Modern Arts. She developed several techniques for collages and advocated inclusion of minorities and women in the arts community. Her works were in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale Art Museum, New Haven, the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University and the Rhode Island School of Art Museum. A book of her writings The Heart of the Question was published in 1997.
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