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.
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.