The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Alvia Wardlaw

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Alvia Wardlaw

5/7/2014; 12/3/2016

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2014.155

Art history professor and curator Alvia Wardlaw (1947 - ) is professor of art history and director/curator of the University Museum at Texas Southern University. She served as the curator of modern and contemporary art for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from 1995 to 2009, and has curated the award-winning exhibits, Black Art Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African American Art and The Quilts of Gee’s Bend. Wardlaw was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 5/7/2014 and 12/3/2016, in Houston, Texas. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 14; Total Run Time: 06h 30m 26s

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Wardlaw, Alvia J.

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Art historian and curator Alvia J. Wardlaw was born on November 5, 1947 to Virginia Cage and Alvin Wardlaw. She was raised in Houston, Texas and graduated from Jack Yates High School in 1965. Wardlaw earned her B.A. degree in art history from Wellesley College in 1969, and her M.A. degree in art history from New York University in 1986. In 1996, she became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin.From 1972 to 1974, Wardlaw worked ...