The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Betye Saar

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Betye Saar

07/20/2017

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2017.116

Visual artist Betye Saar (1926 - ) was the first African American woman to have an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. Saar was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 07/20/2017, in Los Angeles, California. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 01m 14s

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Saar, Betye

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Painter, sculptor, assemblage artist, installation artist, illustrator. Betye Saar is the mother of Alison Saar. She studied at the University of California and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California University in Long Beach and Northridge, as well as at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. She taught at the Otis Art Institute of the Parson School of Design in Los Angeles from 1976. She was awarded honorary doctorates from the California College of Arts and Craft...