Reminiscences of Wendy Maruyama 1991

 

Name
Maruyama, Wendy, 1952- (Interviewee)
Polsky, Richard M (Interviewer)
Title
Reminiscences of Wendy Maruyama 1991
Abstract
Childhood in San Diego, California: reflections on being deaf and going to school, limits on interaction with other people; early interest in art; education at junior college and San Diego State University; early influences in her life; decision to go into woodworking; education at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Boston University, and Rochester Institute of Technology: discussion of the tech nical and creative aspects of her education; first job in Vail, Colorado, and at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Tennessee; description of early work and production in Tennessee: combination of materials and collaborative work; discussion of the pricing of art; problems in the relationship of the Appalachian Center to local community; move to the San Francisco Bay area: orientation towards larger scale production of furniture; professorship at San Diego State University in 1989; reflections on teaching in graduate school; reflections on appropriating artistic styles from other cultures; discussion of being a woman in the woodworking field.
Collection Name
American craftspeople project
Subjects
Women woodworkers; Deaf--Education; Woodwork--Study and teaching; Furniture making; Handicraft--Prices; Arts and crafts movement; Maruyama, Wendy, 1952-; San Diego State University Professorship
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1991
Note (Biographical)
Woodworker.
Note
Interviewed by Richard M. Polsky on July 26, 1991.
Note (Provenance)
Wendy Maruyama, Gift 1992
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
13672741
Also In
Oral History Archives at Columbia
Time-Based Media
Time-Based Media
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-mckz-c286
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.