Reminiscences of Wendy Maruyama : oral history, 1991.

Biographical Note

Woodworker.

Scope and Contents

Childhood in San Diego, California: reflections on being deaf and going to school, limits on interaction with other people; early interest in art; education at junior college and San Diego State University; early influences in her life; decision to go into woodworking; education at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Boston University, and Rochester Institute of Technology: discussion of the technical and creative aspects of her education; first job in Vail, Colorado, and at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Tennessee; description of early work and production in Tennessee: combination of materials and collaborative work; discussion of the pricing of art; problems in the relationship of the Appalachian Center to local community; move to the San Francisco Bay area: orientation towards larger scale production of furniture; professorship at San Diego State University in 1989; reflections on teaching in graduate school; reflections on appropriating artistic styles from other cultures; discussion of being a woman in the woodworking field.

Subjects

• Arts and crafts movement.
• Deaf--Education.
• Furniture making.
• Handicraft--Prices.
• Interviews.
• Maruyama, Wendy, 1952---Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Polsky, Richard M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• San Diego State University--Professorship.
• Women woodworkers--Interviews.
• Woodwork--Study and teaching.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1992.