The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Kerry James Marshall

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Kerry James Marshall

1/4/2001

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2001.046

Painter Kerry James Marshall (1955 - ) is best known for his stylized, large-scale paintings. His celebrated series, "The Garden Project", critiqued low-income housing projects whose names denoted an idyllic Eden-like world, camouflaging the poverty and violence within. Marshall was named the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur "Genius" grant and is currently an art professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Marshall was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 1/4/2001, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 41m 42s

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Marshall, Kerry James, 1955-

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Born October 17, 1955, in Birmingham, Alabama, Kerry James Marshall realized that he wanted to be an artist at a very early age. Inspired by pictures in a book, Marshall decided he wanted to be a visual artist.Themes and ideas present in Marshall's work reflect the complex web of personal and social issues that have been instrumental in molding his life. When Marshall was eight, his family moved to the Watts community in Los Angeles, California. As the epicenter of intense struggle for civil rig...