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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Amalia Amaki.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Amalia Amaki.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Amaki, Amalia K.
  • Pounds, Evelyn
  • Gines, Denise
  • Stearns, Scott
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (12 video files (5 hr., 29 min., 15 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Art history professor, curator, and mixed media artist Amalia Amaki was born Linda Faye Peeks on July 8, 1949 in Atlanta, Georgia to Mary Lee and Norman Peeks, a former musician with the Deep South Boys of Macon, Georgia. Her father gave up his music career to support his six daughters. Amaki graduated from Georgia State University in 1971 with her B.A. degree in journalism and psychology. In 1974, she changed her name while pursuing her B.A. degree in photography and art history from the University of Mexico. Amaki earned her M.A. degree in 1980 in modern European and American art and a Ph.D. in twentieth century American art and culture from Emory University. She taught at universities around north Georgia before becoming curator of the Paul R. Jones Collection of Art and assistant professor of art in the Art History and Black Studies Departments at the University of Delaware in 2001.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Amalia Amaki
  • Amalia Amaki
Subject
  • Amaki, Amalia K. > Interviews
  • Amaki, Amalia K
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Mixed Media Artist Curator Art History Professor
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Scott Stearns.
OCLC
994208827
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Amalia Amaki.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
052915
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Evelyn Pounds, interviewer.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Event
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2006 February 15.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2007 September 9.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Mixed Media Artist Curator Art History Professor.
Added Author
Amaki, Amalia K., interviewee.
Pounds, Evelyn, interviewer.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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