Joan Snyder's guest appearances

Joan Snyder

VernissageTV Art TV

Oral History Collection from the Archives of American Art

Judy Chicago

Thomas Carr

Dennis Oppenheim

Walker Hancock

Stanton L. Catlin

Frank Romero

Carmen Lomas Garza

Otto Wittmann

George Leslie Stout

Willie Herrón

Gilbert Luján

Charles Parkhurst

Lane Faison

Robert Bechtle

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie

OwlTail

Artist Joan Snyder often includes text in her large, emotionally evocative, abstract paintings. In this excerpt from an oral history interview conducted in 2010 for the Archives of American Art, Snyder considers her conflicted feelings about adding words to her abstractions. The interview was funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Joan Snyder interview excerpt

In the course of a life, there is often one teacher who changes everything. For painter Joan Snyder, that teacher was Billy Pritchard.  Snyder was on the path to becoming a social worker when she took an art elective with Pritchard in her senior year at Rutgers.  In this excerpt from an oral history interview conducted in 2010 for the Archives of American Art and funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, Snyder talks about her shift from social work to painting and renting her first studio in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1962.

Joan Snyder interview excerpt - painting