- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 19 min., 41 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Printmaker and artist Samella Lewis was born on February 27, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned her B.A. degree from Hampton Institute. She completed her graduate studies at Ohio State University earning her M.A. degree in 1948 and her Ph.D. degree in fine arts and art history as the first African American woman to do so. From 1969 to 1984, Lewis became Scripps College's first tenured African American professor. In order to publish Black Artists on Art, in 1969, she created the first African American-owned art publishing house, Contemporary Crafts, to publish her own work. She helped found the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles in 1976 and established the International Review of African-American Art. Lewis' works were exhibited in many galleries. She received several distinctions, including the UNICEF Award for the Visual Arts in 1995. Scripps College named an academic scholarship in Lewis' honor.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Samella Lewis
- Samella Lewis
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1000518674
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Samella Lewis.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
051941
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 August 24.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2004 May 22.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Printmaker.
- Added Author
Lewis, Samella S., interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.