Interviewing Artists [SOLD OUT]

A one-year interdisciplinary MA program training students in oral history method and theory. www.oralhistory.columbia.edu

Columbia Oral History MA Program

Interviewing Artists, Liza Zapol 
This workshop is for cultural workers, curators, educators, art professionals, and creative researchers to learn more about strategies and techniques for creating engaging and fruitful artist interviews. The artist interview has become an integral part of the artist’s documentation and archive; a key component of exhibitions, criticism, and press; and sometimes the raw material for artworks themselves. We will discuss examples of oral history projects centered around artist communities, listen to interviews with individual artists, and develop best practices for the artist interview. Through practice interviews, participants will experiment with interviewing in a way that evokes sensory details, providing rich material that reveals and invites creativity.
 
Liza Zapol is an artist and an oral historian. She creates sound, multimedia and performance on the themes of creativity, memory and place, using documentary methods. Liza Zapol was the Robert and Arlene Kogod Secretarial Scholar, Oral Historian at the <A HREF="https://www.aaa.si.edu/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Archives of American Art</A>, <A HREF="https://www.si.edu/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Smithsonian Institution</A>. Liza also worked for the Whitney Museum of American Art, creating oral history projects, documentary shorts, and she created the <A HREF="http://whitney.org/Education/Community" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Whitney Education Community Advisory Network</A>. Liza developed the oral history program for the <A HREF="http://www.skowheganart.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture</A>, and interviewed artists, including David Driskell, Brice Marden, Alex Katz, and Emma Amos. She has also worked with the National Building Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the <A HREF="http://www.brooklynhistory.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Brooklyn Historical Society</A>, the <A HREF="http://www.gvshp.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation</A>, <A HREF="https://www.tenement.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Lower East Side Tenement Museum</A>, and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Zapol started her career in performance, creating documentary and ensemble based theater. Liza has worked with theater director Julie Kline (<A HREF="http://www.lizazapol.com/2012/meet-the-sparc-seniors/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Seniors and the City</A>), scenic designer Cameron Anderson, and Elevator Repair Service Theater.
Zapol has taught at Columbia University and the New School for Drama, and lectures on the intersection of oral history and art. She was an instructor for the ART CART: Saving the Legacy project, training graduate students to conduct oral histories with older artists in New York. She earned a certificate in Physical Theatre from the <A HREF="http://www.lispa.co.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">London International School of Performing Arts</A>, and a certificate from the <A HREF="http://www.rada.ac.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts</A>. B.A. with Honors from <A HREF="http://www.amstp.northwestern.edu/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Northwestern University</A>. M.A. in <A HREF="http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Oral History</A> at Columbia University.
 
*For our oral history workshops, please pay what you can. We suggest $30 for students, recent graduates, or others who are financially constrained, while we suggest that professionals and those with more resources should pay more. All profits from these events go towards our annual merit scholarship for an OHMA student. Please note that OHMA applicants can get their admission fee waived if they attend a workshop.

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