Ed Dwight Interview
Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Scope and Contents
- Sculptor Ed Dwight talks about his work and process. He provides detailed description of working with wax and bronze, modeling, casting, working with molds, and other sculpting techniques and processes. Dwight also speaks of the Black Frontier Spirit Series exhibit, at the behest of the National Park Service, at the St. Louis Arch Museum; using bronze to tell stories of African Americans; discovering lack of African American artists when he was studying art and artists; artistic heritage of Africans; and study of black man as accomplisher, creator, image maker, and sculptor.
- Interview. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. Undated.
- Date
- circa 1970s
- Extent
- 2 Sound recordings (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Topic
- African Americans
- Sculptors
- African American sculptors
- Sculpture
- African American artists
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Culture
- African American
- Citation
- Ed Dwight Interview, Record Group AV09-023, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-023, Item ACMA AV003286-1
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV003286-2 ACMA AV003308
- General
- Title created by ACMA based on transcription from physical asset and contents of recording.