Oral history interview with Walter Nottingham, 2002 July 14-18

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Oral history interview with Walter Nottingham, 2002 July 14-18

Nottingham, Walter, 1930-2012

Owen, Carol, 1936

Constantine, Mildred

Crane, Jim

Drutt, Helen Williams

Johnson, Meda

Kaufman, Glen

Knodel, Gerhardt

Larsen, Jack Lenor

Moran, Lois

Merritt, Francis Sumner

Miller, Don

Nordness, Lee

Nottingham, Karron

Penning, Pauline

Ross, Shelley

Rossbach, Ed

Strengell, Marianne

Catholic Church

Cranbrook Academy of Art

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America

St. Cloud State University

United States

University of Wisconsin--River Falls

California

29 Pages, Transcript; 4 Items, Sound recording: 4 sound files (1 hr., 41 min.), digital, wav

Originally recorded on 3 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 41 min.

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

An interview of Walter Nottingham conducted 2002 July 14-18, by Carol Owen, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the studios of Idyllwild Arts, in Idyllwild, California. Nottingham speaks of his enthusiasm for basketball; being an altar boy and, as such, surrounded by beautiful fabrics at an early age; attending St. Cloud State University on the GI Bill; his teachers Jim Crane and Pauline Penning; serving as an art consultant for public schools in Jackson, Michigan; the lasting influence of an exhibition of battle flags at the Metropolitan Museum; articulating aging and decay through self-taught weaving; developing a fiber art program at University of Wisconsin, River Falls; attending Cranbrook Academy of Art and working with Glen Kaufman and Meda Johnson. He discusses specific works including his "Yahooties", that combine both his grandmother's and mother's crochet work; his trip to Mexico City on a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1974; forming the company Off the Wall with his eldest daughter Karron and their decorative design commissions; the influence of his Catholic upbringing, oriental philosophy, and spirituality in his work; and techniques and materials. Nottingham recalls Shelly Ross, Helen Drutt, Francis Merritt, Don Miller, Lois Moran, Jack Lenor Larsen, Marianne Strengell, Mildred Constantine, Gerhardt Knodel, Lee Nordness, Ed Rossbach, and others.

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Walter Nottingham, 2002 July 14-18. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Transcript available online.

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America. Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Walter Nottingham (1930-2012) is a fiber artist from Hilo, Hawaii. Carol Owen is a fiber artist from Pittsboro, North Carolina.

English .

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

Decoration and ornament

Weavers -- Hawaii -- Interviews

Fiber artists -- Hawaii -- Interviews

Weaving

Nottingham, Walter

Constantine, Mildred

Crane, Jim

Drutt, Helen Williams

Johnson, Meda

Kaufman, Glen

Knodel, Gerhardt

Larsen, Jack Lenor

Moran, Lois

Merritt, Francis Sumner

Miller, Don

Nordness, Lee

Nottingham, Karron

Penning, Pauline

Ross, Shelley

Rossbach, Ed

Strengell, Marianne

Catholic Church

Cranbrook Academy of Art

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America

St. Cloud State University

United States

University of Wisconsin--River Falls

Owen, Carol

Decorative arts

Smithsonian Institution

English

http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=AAADCD_oh_238990&repo=DPLA

Decoration and ornament

Crocheting

Weavers -- Hawaii -- Interviews

Fiber artists -- Hawaii -- Interviews

Weaving

Art -- Technique

Nottingham, Walter

Constantine, Mildred

Crane, Jim

Drutt, Helen Williams

Johnson, Meda

Kaufman, Glen

Knodel, Gerhardt

Larsen, Jack Lenor

Moran, Lois

Merritt, Francis Sumner

Miller, Don

Nordness, Lee

Nottingham, Karron

Penning, Pauline

Ross, Shelley

Rossbach, Ed

Strengell, Marianne

Catholic Church

Cranbrook Academy of Art

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America

St. Cloud State University

United States

University of Wisconsin--River Falls

Owen, Carol

Decorative arts