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Interviewer
Rafael Delgadillo
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
8-12-2025
Narrator Birth Year
1961
Description
Jose Torres Tama is an Ecuadorian-American artist born in 1961 who had lived in New Orleans for approximately 40 years at the time of the interview. He was a multi-disciplinary artist whose work encompassed visual arts (painting, drawing), performance art, and writing (poetry, journalism). He studied art and creative writing in New York and New Jersey before moving to New Orleans. His work was deeply political and focused on social justice, drawing heavily from his identity as a Latino immigrant and his extensive documentation of the post-Katrina immigrant labor community in New Orleans.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Time Periods
1980s to present
Duration
1:22:31
File Size
2.55 GB
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Tama, Jose Torres and Delgadillo, Rafael, "Oral History Interview with Jose Torres Tama" (2025). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 21.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/21
Comments
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