Interviews with Artists

The Hall of Arts
http://www.achievement.org/frames.html

in-depth interviews with major American artists (with a few Brits thrown in).

• James Cameron, Filmmaker
• Johnny Cash, Country Music Legend
• Francis Ford Coppola, Filmmaker, Producer & Screenwriter
• Rita Dove, Poet
• Suzanne Farrell, Ballerina
• Whoopi Goldberg, Actress
• John Grisham, Author
• Ron Howard, Director
• Jeremy Irons, Actor
• Phillip Johnson, Architect
• Quincy Jones, Music Impresario
• Chuck Jones, Film Animation
• Maya Lin, Artist and Architect
• Wynton Marsalis, Classical and Jazz Musician
• James Michener, Novelist
• N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D., Fiction Author
• Trevor Nunn, Theatrical Director
• Joyce Carol Oates, Author
• Lloyd Richards, Director
• Fritz Scholder, Native American Artist
• Amy Tan, Novelist
• Twyla Tharp, Dancer and Choreographer
• Robert Zemeckis, Motion Picture Producer
  
  

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Biographies of Artists

Art

Architect
Louis Sullivan – http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/sullivan.html#life
Frank Lloyd Wright – http://www.geocities.com./SoHo/1469/flw.html

Garden Designer, Sculptor
Isamu Noguchi – http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/noguchi_i.html

Painters
Mary Cassat – http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cassatt

Andy Warhol – http://www.warholfoundation.org/biograph.htm

Sculptor
Sandy Calder – http://calder.org/SETS_SUB/home/home_intro_con2.html
http://arthistory.about.com/library/blartist_calder.htm
Be certain to check out the National Gallery link

Fashion Designer
Coco Chanel – http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/chanel.html

Dance

Modern Dancer
Isadora Duncan – http://www.pitt.edu/~gillis/dance/isadora.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/isadora.html

Jose Limon – http://www.abt.org/library/archive/choreographers/limon_j.html

Ballet Dancer

Mikhail Baryshnikov
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/vasiliev/misha.html

Edward Villella
http://www.miamicityballet.org/mcbdev/tc_artistic_ev.shtml

Maria Tallchief – http://androsdance.tripod.com/biographies/tallchief_maria.htm

Choreographer
Alvin Ailey – http://texas-on-line.com/graphic/alvinailey.htm

George Balanchine – http://androsdance.tripod.com/biographies/balanchine_george.htm

Martha Graham – http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/graham.html
http://www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr/~esouche/dance/Graham2.html

Jerome Robbins http://androsdance.tripod.com/biographies/robbins_jerome.htm

Music

Composer
Aaron Copland – http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/copland.html

Conductor
Leonard Bernstein – http://www.leonardbernstein.com/lifeswork/biography/

Horn player
Louis Armstrong – http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/armstrong.html
http://www.redhotjazz.com/louie.html

Opera Singer
Marion Anderson -http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/anderson/

Pianist
Victor Borge – http://www.charliethejugglingclown.com/victor_borge.htm

Valdimer Horowitz – http://www.geocities.com/laosw/Classical_Html/HorowitzBio.html

Theatre/Film

Actress
Katherine Hepburn – http://www.angelfire.com/film/robbed/morning.htm

Actor
John Barrymore – http://www.shakespearean.com/

Film Director
Orson Welles – http://www.bway.net/~nipper/home.html
http://alumni.imsa.edu/~mitch/directors/wellesbio.html

Playwright
Lillian Hellman –
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/hellman-per-fbi.html

Eugene O’Neill –
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95oct/egoneil.html#etext
Click on “Library” and then on “Playwrights”

Tennesee Williams – http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/

Producer
Joseph Papp – http://www.bartleby.com/65/pa/Papp-Jos.html

Puppeteer
Jim Henson – http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/henson.html