Oral history recorded for the Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project on March 31, 2023 with OLGA, a Puerto Rican graffiti writer raised in the South Bronx where she currently resides. In her oral history OLGA speaks about her experience applying to…
Oral history recorded for the Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project on June 1, 2022 with KEON, an early graffiti writer from Brooklyn and a member of the Ex-Vandals (among many other crews). In his oral history KEON speaks about his family…
Oral history recorded for the Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project on May 19, 2022 with DOSE MPC, current president and longtime member of the Morris Park Crew, a notorious Bronx graffiti crew with one of the toughest reputations out there. In his…
Oral history recorded for the Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project on January 19, 2022 with COSE, a member of The Death Squad (TDS) and one of the most prolific graffiti artists in New York City during the Golden Age of graffiti during the early…
Oral history recorded for the Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project on January 18, 2022 with BUTCH 2, a pioneer in the graffiti arts movement from The Bronx, a master of wild style lettering design, a member of The Fantastic Partners (TFP), and one…
Oral history recorded for the Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project on April 13, 2023 with BOM5, a graffiti writer and artist. BOM5 was born in Puerto Rico and migrated to The Bronx with his parents as a young child. In his oral history, BOM 5…
Oral history recorded for the Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project on March 1, 2022 with BG 183, a member of the legendary Tats Cru, one of the most prolific Bronx graffiti crews painting whole cars and trains during the Golden Era of the 1980s and…
First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (1966), clockwise from center: Dorthy Sharpe, Bessie Ware, isabella McLeod, Mary DeChabert, Gladys Mapp, Barbara Vasquez, Carolyn Bowman, and Grace Wheeler
First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (1966), clockwise from center: Dorthy Sharpe, Bessie Ware, isabella McLeod, Mary DeChabert, Gladys Mapp, Barbara Vasquez, Carolyn Bowman, and Grace Wheeler
Collage of Eta Omega Omega Chapter Charter Members Nearlene Bertin, Marietta J. Tanner, Bessie M. Johnson, Gwendolyn B. Bland, Irma Wilson, Gladys B. Simms, Joan Silvey Drane, Olga G. Chellis, Mae Tate Jones, Thora L. Dudley, Mary O. Hope, and…
In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross narrates her immediate family's escape from the Holocaust. Much of her family did not make it out of Europe alive. Suzanne reflects on the…
In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross recalls her early experience of being exposed to Zionism in Palestine on the kibbutz in the 1940s, before the creation of the state of Israel.…
Compilation of oral histories from Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. prepared for "A Preservation of History: Archival/Repository Collection, 1964–Present" event at Wave Hill, The Bronx, New York, September 26, 2021,…
In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross remembers the development of her morality as a child (starting at 00:09:58), both in Mozambique, while observing the life of her family's Black…