Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick

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Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick

2011 Dec. 14-15

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An oral history interview of Kay WalkingStick conducted 2011 Dec. 14-15, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at WalkingStick's studio, in Jackson Heights, Queens, N.Y.

Sound recording: 7 sound files (5 hr., 21 min.); Transcript: 105 pages

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Riedel, Mija, 1958-

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Walkingstick, Kay

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Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee) was born in 1935. An artist and professor of Art at Cornell University. She was the first Native American artist represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art's permanent collection and was included in Jansen's History of Art, fifth edition. Her style combines elements of Neo-Expressionism and Neo-Abstraction in her work. WalkingStick is represented in the Heard Museum's permanent collection. See her file in the Native American Artists Resource Collection in the ...