INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS WITH VIOLA FREY

2003	Frey, Viola. “Larger Than Life.” DVD. San Francisco: KQED Spark*, 2004. “Interview with Viola Frey, April 17, 2003.” Interview with Philip Linhares. VHS. Oakland: Oakland Museum of California, 2004.
2000	Whittaker, Richard. “Who Makes Originals, Ever? A Conversation with Viola Frey.” Works and Conversations. 2001. Interview conducted in 2000. Whittaker, Richard. The Conversations: Interviews with Sixteen Contemporary Artists. Venice: Whale and Star Press, 2007. 66-77. Interview conducted in 2000.
1998	Bransten, Rena and Trish Bransten. Viola Frey: Survey of Work, 1969-1981. VHS. San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery, 1998. Jana, Reena. “Viola Frey: Survey of Work 1969–1981.” Ceramics: Art and Perception. September 2000. 83-87. Interview conducted in 1998. Viola Frey: Memory Assembled. DVD. San Francisco: Bay Package Productions with Rena Bransten Gallery, 2005. Interview conducted in 1998.
1996	Frey, Viola. “Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves.” VHS. Presentation at the California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, April 27, 1996. Lovelace, Joyce. “’I Don’t Really Collect…’ Tales of the artists’ possessions.” American Craft. December 1995/January 1996. 40-45, 64. Sims, Shawn Irvin. “Bodies of Clay.” Ceramic Review. January/February 1996. 21-25.
1995	“Oral history interview with Viola Frey, 1995 February 27-June 19.” Interview by Paul Karlstrom. Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1995.
1994	Bransten, Patricia and James Harris. Viola Frey. San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery, May 1994. Tanner, Marcia. “Viola Frey’s Perspectives on Power.” San Francisco Chronicle Datebook. April 10-16, 1994.
1992	Chadwick, Whitney. Viola Frey. Fresno: Fresno Art Museum, May 1992. Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan. The Sculptor’s Eye. New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1993. Interview conducted in 1992.
1991	Clagett, Leslie. “Feats of Clay.” SF Magazine. February 1991. 72-77, 108-110.
1990	“Viola Frey: ‘I call myself an artist’.” CCAC News. Spring 1990.
1987	“Philbrook Museum of Art: The Eloquent Object video tape collection.” Six Video Recordings. Philbrook Museum of Art with Cathey Edwards Productions, 1987.
1986	Lawrence, Les. “NCECA Featured Artist Exhibition.” NCECA Journal 7, no. 2 (1986). 17. Marechal-Workman, Andree. “An Interview with Viola Frey.” Expo-See. Winter 1985-1986. “Potters on Color: Viola Frey.” The Studio Potter. June 1986. Halvorsen, Liza E. “Viola Frey.” In Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists, edited by Moira Roth. Oakland: Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1988. Interview conducted in 1986. Richardson, Jan. “An Interview with Viola Frey.” NCECA Journal 7, no. 2 (1986). 20-21.
1984	Burkhart, Dorothy. “The solitary visions of artist Viola Frey.” San Jose Mercury News. August 26, 1984. 18-19. Cardew, Michael. Glorious Mud. DVD. Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Enterprises, 1984. Sims, Patterson and Elsa Weiner Longhauser. It’s All Part of the Clay: Viola Frey. Philadelphia: Moore College of Art, 1984.
1983	Felver, Chris. California Clay in the Rockies. DVD. Oaks, PA: MVD Visual, 2010. Interview conducted in 1983.
1982	Montini, Ed. “Feat of Clay: Art world finally discovers style in ceramics.” The Arizona Republic. August 22, 1982. F1, F9.
1975	Wenger, Lesley. “Interviews: Viola Frey.” Currant Art Magazine. August/September 1975. 48-50.

INTERVIEWS ABOUT VIOLA FREY

2021	“Oral history interview with Katie Frank, 2021 July 7.” Interview by Julia Schwartz. Artists’ Legacy Foundation, 2021. “Oral history interview with Robert Brady, 2021 October 12.” Interview by Julia Schwartz. Artists’ Legacy Foundation, 2021.
2020	“Oral history interview with Lexa Walsh, 2020 January 15.” Interview by Julia Schwartz. Artists’ Legacy Foundation, 2020.
2019	“Oral history interview with Marge Levy, 2019 June 19.” Interview by Cynthia de Bos. Artists’ Legacy Foundation, 2019. “Oral history interview with Helen Drutt English, 2019 November 7.” Interview by Julia Schwartz. Artists’ Legacy Foundation, 2019. “In Conversation with Chris Hood.” Interview by Julia Schwartz. Artists’ Legacy Foundation, 2019.
2015	“Oral history interview with Nancy Hoffman, 2015 July 15-16.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2015. “Oral history interview with Rena Bransten, 2014 May 29 – 2015 July 10.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2015. “Oral history interview with Patricia (Trish) Bransten, 2015 October 5-6.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2015. “Oral history interview with Richard Shaw, 2015 November 20.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2015. “Oral history interview with Sandra Shannonhouse, 2015 July 15-16.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2015.
2014	“Oral history interview with Bill and Peggy Foote, 2014 February 16-17.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2014. “Oral history interview with Neil Williams, 2014 June 5-6.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2015. “Oral history interview with Louis Mueller, 2014 June 24-25.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2014. “Oral history interview with Sam Perry, 2014 April 29 and May 1.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2014. “Oral history interview with Steven H. Oliver, 2014 September 2-3.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2014. “Oral history interview with Garth Clark, 2014 September 10.” Interview by Mija Riedel. Viola Frey Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2014.
2004	“Oral history interview with Tony Natsoulas, 2004 August 9-11.” Interview by Liza Kirwin. Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2004.