Glenna Goodacre, Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project

Glenna Goodacre was interviewed in her Santa Fe, New Mexico, studio on July 26, 2006, by Dickinson Research Center Director Chuck Rand. Curator of Art Ed Muno videotaped the interview. Goodacre's most well-known work is the Vietnam Women's Memorial installed in Washington, D.C. in 1993. Selected in 1997 as sculptor for the monumental Irish Memorial in Philadelphia, she completed and installed this massive bronze with 35 life-size figures at Penn's Landing in 2003. In 1998, her 8-foot standing portrait of Ronald Reagan called After the Ride was unveiled at the Reagan Library in California. Another cast is at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. After a nationwide competition for a Sacagawea dollar coin design in 1999, Goodacre's rendering for the face was unveiled at the White House by First Lady Hillary Clinton. The Museum wishes her well in her continued recovery following her injury in March 2007 and believes this short video captures her charming, humorous, and thoughtful personality.
Film clips are from an interview with artist Glenna Goodacre as part of the A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project. The full interview is available for viewing in the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The A. Keith Brodkin Project facilitates the collection, preservation, and accessibility of primary resources such as personal papers, studio ephemera, photographs, libraries, and other items which are often overlooked and lost to posterity and which reflect the artists life and career. Additional resources are acquired through personal oral histories via recorded interviews. Collecting these resources effectively preserves artists careers for posterity and provides future artists, art historians, educators, and researchers with documentary evidence.
Please visit these websites:
The A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/r...
Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/r...
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/
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[@candacejourdan6041]

Glenna was one of the kindest, mist considerate and loveliest persons I was ever blessed to know. She certainly did Boulder proud. RIP, Glenna. Your presence is missed.

[@shelleythomas1104]

She was so gorgeous & super Talented.
I see her daughter in her eyes.