Art Changes Things: Interview with Georgette Seabrooke Powell

Object Details

Creator

Anacostia Museum

Scope and Contents

Georgette Seabrooke Powell talked about her life in Charleston, South Carolina, New York City, and Washington, D.C.; her educational experience at Washington Irving High School and Cooper Union School of Art; her involvement in the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the murals she painted as part of the project; her family, particularly her children and her husband; her community activism when she lived in the Bronx; and her work as an art therapist and with community art programs in Washington, D.C.

Interview. Related to exhibition 'Art Changes Things: The Art and Activism of Georgette Seabrooke Powell.' AV000846: master, dated 19941205. AV000847: dated 19941214. AV000848: dated 1994. AV002168: edited version, dated 19941116. AV002645: dated 19941116.

Date

1994

Extent

3 Video recordings (U-matic, 3/4")

2 Video recordings (VHS)

Type

Archival materials

Video recordings

Occupation

Artists

Topic

African Americans

Women artists

African American women artists

Activists

Community activists

Museum exhibits

Place

New York (N.Y.)

Washington (D.C.)

United States

Citation

Art Changes Things: Interview with Georgette Seabrooke Powell, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier

ACMA.03-007, Item ACMA AV000846

Local Numbers

ACMA AV000847 ACMA AV000848 ACMA AV002168 ACMA AV002645