- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 10 min., 50 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Museum founder Edmund Barry Gaither was born in Great Falls, South Carolina, in 1944. He graduated from Morehouse with his B.A. degree and went on to obtain his M.F.A. from Brown University in 1968. Since 1969, Gaither has been a special consultant at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He also founded and curated the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists where he developed the National Center's permanent collection and organized many exhibitions. His work established the National Center as a vital presence for African American art in Boston and the nation. Gaither also taught at Spelman College, Wellesley College, Harvard University, and Boston University, as well as served as panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts and on President George W. Bush's Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Edmund B. Gaither
- Edmund B. Gaither
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
- OCLC
- 1003150064
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Edmund B. Gaither.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
031050
- 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, Paul Bieschke.
- Event
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2001 February 12.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Curator.
- Added Author
Gaither, Edmund B., interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Bieschke, Paul, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.