The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Carrie Mae Weems

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Carrie Mae Weems

9/10/2014

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2014.175

Photographer and visual artist Carrie Mae Weems (1953 - ) was an award-winning folkloric artist represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Weems was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 9/10/2014, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 57m 58s

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Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-

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Photographer and artist Carrie Mae Weems was born on April 20, 1953 in Portland, Oregon to Myrlie and Carrie Weems. Weems graduated from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia with her B.F.A. degree in 1981, and received her M.F.A. degree in photography from the University of California, San Diego in 1984. From 1984 to 1987, she participated in the graduate program in folklore at the University of California, Berkeley.In 1984, Weems completed her first collection of photographs, text, an...