NORTH CAROLINA PEOPLE WITH WILLIAM FRIDAY {MAUD GATEWOOD} (TV)
Summary
One in this series in which host William Friday, the president of the University of North Carolina, interviews successful people who reside in or hail from North Carolina. In this program, Friday interviews acclaimed painter Maud Gatewood in her Yanceyville studio. Gatewood discusses her life and career and shows many of her paintings. Topics include the following: her studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro; her involvement with choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage several decades earlier at Black Mountain College; her earliest artistic creations as a child; why Parisians and New Yorkers can be more provincial than Southerners; a look at her paintings "Gully," "Ballon Booth," "Shade," and "Beringia"; her feelings about doing paintings on commission; her painting "Ugly Saturday" which depicts a Ku Klux Klan rally which occurred in Yanceyville; her work "Mary Magdalene"; how guilt motivates her to work; a look at the painting "Consuming Cause" which was inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall; the growing reputation that North Carolina is enjoying in the art world; her opinions of contemporary society; her painting "The Blue Raft"; her use of snowy scenery in her paintings; and why she concentrates more on the human body than the face in her renderings.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by the William R. Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust in honor of William C. Friday.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS North Carolina Public Television
- DATE: September 9, 1994 8:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:26:46
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:39410
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: Art; Biography; Dance; North Carolina; Painting
- SERIES RUN: UNC-TV - TV series, 1970-2012
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Bobby Royster … Executive Producer
- Patti Meredith … Producer
- Cindy Simoni … Director
- Rod Abernethy … Theme Music by
- William Friday … Host
- Maud Gatewood … Guest
- John Cage
- Merce Cunningham