This paper will outline a recent oral history project the author undertook with the artist Bill Hutson, currently the Jennie Brown Cook & Betsy Hess Cook Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The project's impetus, process, and lessons learned will be discussed. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which the project both intersected with and deviated from standard best practices in the field of oral history, in service of the project's greater success.
A poster created for the Art Libraries Society of North America 2020 conference, detailing the author's experience working on the Bill Hutson Oral History Project.
