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Weekend notice: on Friday, April 24 the Hammer Museum will close to the public at 6PM and re-open at 7PM to college students only for Arts Party: Forever. On Sunday, April 26, plan ahead for street closures due to CicLAvia—West LA. Learn more

Digital Archive UCLA Artists in the Hammer Museum Collections

Oral Histories

Project researchers consulted many oral history interviews of artists and other individuals associated with the arts at UCLA. Click the names in the list below to hear the stories of these important  figures in their own words.

UCLA Library Digital Collections

Oliver Andrews Maurice E. Bloch Judy Chicago
Annita Delano Robert Heinecken Henry T. Hopkins
Robert Irwin Matsumi Kanemitsu Craig Kaufmann
Lee Mullican Franklin D. Murphy Betye Saar
Millard Sheets Frederick S. Wight  

Smithsonian Archives of American Art

Clinton Adams Peter Alexander Laura Andreson
James Bassler Barbara Carrasco Vija Celmins
Judy Chicago Richard Diebenkorn Llyn Foulkes
Charles Garabedian Henry T. Hopkins Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Lee Mullican Roland Reiss  

Getty Research Institute

Vija Celmins Judy Chicago Craig Kauffman
Ed Moses Betye Saar  

Miscellaneous

Judy Fiskin interview with John Divola, artist's website

Jay Battle, “Dick,” artist's website

Andrea Fraser interviews My Barbarian [Alexandro Segade, Jade Gordon, Malik Gaines], BOMB Magazine