Oral History Interview with Michael Smith, 2018 July 30-August 1
Oral history interview with Michael Smith, 2018 July 30-August 1 Funding for this interview was provided by the Lichtenberg Family Foundation. Contact Information Reference Department Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution Washington. D.C. 20560 www.aaa.si.edu/askus Transcript Preface The following oral history transcript is the result of a recorded interview with Michael Smith on July 30 and August 1, 2018. The interview took place at the studio of Michael Smith in Brooklyn, NY, and was conducted by Liza Zapol for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Michael Smith and Liza Zapol have reviewed the transcript. Selected corrections and emendations appear below in brackets. This transcript has been lightly edited for readability by the Archives of American Art. The reader should bear in mind that they are reading a transcript of spoken, rather than written, prose. Interview LIZA ZAPOL: Okay, so this is Liza Zapol interviewing Michael Smith at his studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, on July 30, 2018, for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, card number one. If I can ask you to actually say your name and introduce yourself, please? MICHAEL SMITH: I'm Michael Smith. My name and— LIZA ZAPOL: Where and when were you born? MICHAEL SMITH: I was born in Chicago, on March 8, 1951. I'm a Pisces. I've been living in New York since 1976, although I was here in '70 and in '73, because I went to the Whitney program. Then, I think around '99, I started to—when I started teaching a lot more frequently, regularly, in '97, I started to go out of town, and in '99, I went to Texas, and then I landed a full-time job in Texas in 2001.
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