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
- Culture
- African American
- 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