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Contemporary artist Hank Willis Thomas will discuss his We the People<\/em> series in which he transforms prison uniforms into handmade quilts, exploring how they relate to the works on view in the War and Pieced <\/em>exhibition.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"7:30 pm","performer_or_host":"Hank Willis Thomas","admission":"$5 members, students, seniors; $8 non-members","main_content":" This discussion is now sold out.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Contemporary artist Hank Willis Thomas will discuss his We the People<\/em> series in which he transforms prison uniforms into handmade quilts, exploring how they relate to the works on view in the War and Pieced <\/em>exhibition.<\/p>\n A Critical Walk-Through is a 40-minute guided tour that is meant to offer an alternative perspective to the works on view. They include conversations with artists, scholars, and curators, providing an intimate opportunity to engage with the central themes and histories found in the artwork. The program is limited to 25 individuals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hank Willis Thomas<\/strong> is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history, and popular culture. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States\u00a0and abroad, including the International Center of Photography, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Mus\u00e9e du quai Branly, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Thomas\u2019 work is in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the High Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, among others. His collaborative projects include “Question Bridge: Black Males, In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth),” and “For Freedoms,” which Thomas co-founded in 2016 as the first artist-run super PAC. “For Freedoms” was recently awarded the 2017 ICP Infinity Award for New Media and Online Platform. Thomas is also the recipient of the 2017 Soros Equality Fellowship. Current and upcoming exhibitions include Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp<\/em> in New Orleans and Freedom Isn\u2019t Always Beautiful<\/em> at Savannah College of Art and Design Museum. Thomas is a member of the Public Design Commission for the City of New York. He received a BFA\u00a0in Photography and Africana studies from New York University and a MFA\/MA in Photography and Visual Criticism from the California College of Arts. He has also received honorary doctorates from the Maryland Institute of Art and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Thomas lives and works in New York City.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image:\u00a0<\/strong>Hank Willis Thomas,\u00a0We the People<\/em>, 2015, quilt made out of decommissioned prison uniforms, 73 1\/4 x 88 1\/4 in., 76 3\/8 x 92 1\/8 x 2 1\/8 in. (framed). 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The 2017 benefit honors Elizabeth and Irwin Warren, Jill Soltau, and Gail O. Mellow.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"9:30 pm","admission":"Tables: $50,000, $25,000, $15,000, $10,000; Tickets: $5000, $2500, $1500, $1000","main_content":" **Online auction now open!**<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The annual Fall Benefit Gala provides a primary source of funding for the American Folk Art Museum\u00a0and its acclaimed educational programs. The museum has a long-standing commitment to arts education and serves more than eight thousand New York City schoolchildren each year. Your support will allow the museum to sustain and expand its wide range of exceptional initiatives and help make the arts accessible to a broad audience.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2017 Honorees<\/strong> Gala Chairs<\/strong> Vice Chairs<\/strong> <\/p>\n Location:<\/span> \u00a0J.W. 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She lectures and writes on American and Japanese quilt history, and on Japanese and Western wartime textiles and kimono. In addition to articles in Japanese and American magazines and journals, her publications include\u00a0Quilting Transformed: A History of Contemporary Quilting in the United States<\/em>;\u00a0Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States 1931\u20131945<\/em>; and a chapter on Japanese novelty textiles in\u00a0The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s<\/em>. Dr. Atkins was a judge for the NHK Japan Quilt Grand Prix in Tokyo for eight years and was also a recipient of a Fulbright Research Award to Japan, which led to her interest in the wartime and other early modern Japanese textiles. 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Shop goods from La Sirena Mexican Folk Art, and enjoy a piece of pan de muerto\u00a0<\/em>(“bread of the dead”).<\/p>\n","start_time":"11:30 am","end_time":"7:00 pm","admission":"Free","main_content":" Celebrate\u00a0D\u00eda de los Muertos<\/em>\u00a0at the American Folk Art Museum! 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Taught by woodworker and quilter Lesley Gold, participants will learn the fundamentals of geometric patterning that leads to the concept of an individual quilt design through fabric piecing. Limited to 20 participants.<\/p>\n The Dialogue + Studio workshop series offers participants opportunities to gain insight into and engage with self-taught art, past and present, at a deep level. Focused discussions about select themes, techniques, and materials featured in current exhibitions couple with related expert-led hands-on workshops.<\/p>\n This workshop is sold out.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lesley Gold<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a full-time woodworker and quilter living in Philadelphia, PA. She is a dedicated student and teacher of the history of these art practices and values the craftsmanship of their various technical handwork skills. Lesley graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2009 with a BFA in fibers and from the Cabinet and Furniture Making program at North Bennet Street School in 2016. Follow her work on Instagram at\u00a0@__quilt__<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0@lesley__gold<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image credit:<\/strong> Sample quilt design. Courtesy of Lesley Gold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Purchase tickets","day":"26","month":"Oct","year":"2017","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/dialogue-studio-intarsia-patterning\/"},"12":{"ID":16287,"post_type":"programs","title":"Open House: Self-Taught Genius Gallery and the Archives of the American Folk Art Museum 10\/18\/17","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2017-09-13 16:25:43","name":"open-house-self-taught-genius-gallery-and-the-archives-of-the-american-folk-art-museum-101817","parent":0,"modified":"2017-10-03 15:19:00","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":31,"name":"Special Events","slug":"special-events","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":31,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":16291,"id":16291,"title":"img_1062-banner2","filename":"IMG_1062-banner2.jpg","filesize":520713,"url":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1062-banner2.jpg","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/open-house-self-taught-genius-gallery-and-the-archives-of-the-american-folk-art-museum-101817\/img_1062-banner2\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"img_1062-banner2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":16287,"date":"2017-09-13 16:28:16","modified":"2017-09-13 16:28:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1200,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1062-banner2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1062-banner2-300x115.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":115,"medium_large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1062-banner2-768x294.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":294,"large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1062-banner2-1024x393.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":393,"1536x1536":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1062-banner2.jpg","1536x1536-width":1200,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1062-banner2.jpg","2048x2048-width":1200,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1062-list.jpg","headline":"Open House: Self-Taught Genius Gallery and the Archives of the American Folk Art Museum","di_date":"2017-10-18","excerpt":" The American Folk Art Museum invites you to an open house of the new Self-Taught Genius Gallery and museum archives\u00a0in Long Island City, Queens.<\/p>\n","start_time":"4:00 pm","end_time":"7:00 pm","admission":"Free with RSVP","main_content":" The American Folk Art Museum invites you to an open house of the\u00a0new Self-Taught Genius Gallery<\/a> and museum archives\u00a0in Long Island City, Queens.<\/p>\n Archivist Mimi Lester will lead a tour of the museum\u2019s repository and share highlights from its\u00a0holdings. These will include materials by Henry Darger, correspondence by Marino Auriti for his Encyclopedic Palace<\/em> project, among others.<\/p>\n The program will include a curator-led tour of the exhibition Highlights from\u00a0Self-Taught Genius<\/a> (<\/em>cocurated by Stacy C. Hollander and Val\u00e9rie Rousseau) from 5 to 6 pm. The exhibition traces the enduring notion of self-taught genius from its roots in the eighteenth\u00a0century to its iterations in the present through highlights from the American Folk Art Museum\u2019s collection of artists who create outside traditional frames of reference and canonical art history.<\/p>\n The program will include light refreshments.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"RSVP","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/open-house-self-taught-genius-gallery-the-archives-of-the-american-folk-art-museum-tickets-37818596440","day":"18","month":"Oct","year":"2017","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/open-house-self-taught-genius-gallery-and-the-archives-of-the-american-folk-art-museum-101817\/"},"13":{"ID":15520,"post_type":"programs","title":"Dialogue + Studio: Bookbinding with Combat Paper 10\/13\/17","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2017-07-17 20:23:51","name":"dialogue-studio-bookbinding-with-combat-paper","parent":0,"modified":"2017-08-28 14:30:13","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":27,"name":"Workshops","slug":"workshop","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":15523,"id":15523,"title":"lewisbookbinding-banner","filename":"lewisbookbinding-banner.jpg","filesize":173095,"url":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lewisbookbinding-banner.jpg","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/dialogue-studio-bookbinding-with-combat-paper\/lewisbookbinding-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"lewisbookbinding-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":15520,"date":"2017-07-17 20:22:13","modified":"2017-07-17 20:22:13","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lewisbookbinding-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lewisbookbinding-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lewisbookbinding-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lewisbookbinding-banner-1024x374.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":374,"1536x1536":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lewisbookbinding-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lewisbookbinding-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lewisbookbinding-list.jpg","headline":"Dialogue + Studio: Bookbinding with Combat Paper","di_date":"2017-10-13","excerpt":" Nathan Lewis offers a bookbinding workshop with handmade paper created from military uniforms.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"4:00 pm","admission":"$15 members, students, seniors; $20 non-members; free for veterans ","main_content":" On day two, Nathan Lewis offers a bookbinding workshop with handmade paper created from military uniforms. Participants will learn two styles of bookbinding, as well as explore the relationship between Combat Paper\u2019s work and objects on view in the War and Pieced<\/em> exhibition. Limited to 15 individuals.<\/p>\n The Dialogue + Studio workshop series offers participants opportunities to gain insight into and engage with self-taught art, past and present, at a deep level. Focused discussions about select themes, techniques, and materials featured in current exhibitions couple with related expert-led hands-on workshops.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nathan Lewis<\/strong>\u00a0is a papermaker and bookbinder (but his parents only know about the tree service he works for). The first time that he made paper, he used the U.S. Army uniform that he wore in the United States military invasion of Iraq. His work continues to deal with themes of war and the military. Nathan maintains a secret book arts bunker in the hills of the Finger Lakes. Look for his neatly stacked pile of firewood.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image courtesy of Nathan Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Purchase tickets","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/dialogue-studio-bookbinding-with-combat-paper-tickets-36161082772","day":"13","month":"Oct","year":"2017","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/dialogue-studio-bookbinding-with-combat-paper\/"},"14":{"ID":15512,"post_type":"programs","title":"FAE: Trip to Los Angeles 10\/13\/17","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2017-07-19 03:00:57","name":"trip-to-los-angeles","parent":0,"modified":"2017-08-23 14:49:01","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":44,"name":"Folk Art Explorers","slug":"folk-art-explorers","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":15853,"id":15853,"title":"fae-banner","filename":"fae-banner.jpg","filesize":581797,"url":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fae-banner.jpg","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/trip-to-los-angeles\/fae-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"fae-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":15512,"date":"2017-08-08 16:17:21","modified":"2017-08-08 16:17:21","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fae-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fae-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fae-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fae-banner-1024x374.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":374,"1536x1536":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fae-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fae-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ramirez-list.jpg","headline":"Folk Art Explorers: Trip to Los Angeles","di_date":"2017-10-13","excerpt":" The American Folk Art Museum invites you on a four-day trip to Los Angeles, California, for a fun exploration of folk art and self-taught art throughout the city.<\/p>\n","admission":"$2,300, additional $300 for single supplement ","main_content":" The American Folk Art Museum invites you on a four-day trip to Los Angeles, California, for a fun exploration of folk art and self-taught art throughout the city.<\/p>\n Highlights of the trip include a special tour of the inaugural exhibition Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation<\/em> at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles<\/a> with Exhibition Curator and Executive Director Elsa Longhauser<\/strong>, a tour at the Craft & Folk Art Museum<\/a>, stops at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art<\/a> and The Getty Center<\/a>, private collection tours, and fabulous meals throughout the city.<\/p>\n Ticket price includes round-trip airfare from JFK International Airport; deluxe hotel accommodations for three nights; ground transportation for excursions throughout Los Angeles; Friday lunch, Saturday lunch and dinner, Sunday brunch and dinner, and Monday breakfast; and museum tours. Taxes and gratuities are included.<\/p>\n For more detailed information or to purchase a ticket, please contact Rebecca Kaplan at\u00a0rkaplan@folkartmuseum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n List image:\u00a0Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez, Untitled (Train)<\/em>, Auburn, California, c. 1953, crayon and pencil on pieced paper, 22 \u00bd x 47″. Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. \u00a9 Estate of Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez. Photo by Gavin Ashworth.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"day":"13","month":"Oct","year":"2017","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/trip-to-los-angeles\/"},"15":{"ID":15515,"post_type":"programs","title":"Dialogue + Studio: Combat Paper 10\/12\/17","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2017-07-17 19:44:17","name":"dialogue-studio-combat-paper","parent":0,"modified":"2017-09-28 02:26:30","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":27,"name":"Workshops","slug":"workshop","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":15517,"id":15517,"title":"combatpaper-banner","filename":"combatpaper-banner.jpg","filesize":197666,"url":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/combatpaper-banner.jpg","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/dialogue-studio-combat-paper\/combatpaper-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"combatpaper-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":15515,"date":"2017-07-17 19:43:03","modified":"2017-07-17 19:43:03","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/combatpaper-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/combatpaper-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/combatpaper-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/combatpaper-banner-1024x374.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":374,"1536x1536":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/combatpaper-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/combatpaper-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/combatpaper-list.jpg","headline":"Dialogue + Studio: Combat Paper","di_date":"2017-10-12","excerpt":" Join Ithaca-based artist and veteran Nathan Lewis as he demonstrates how to transform uniforms into pulp, while discussing the myriad ways that textiles carry stories.<\/p>\n","start_time":"2:00 pm","end_time":"5:00 pm","admission":"Free with RSVP","main_content":" Combat Paper is an artist collective that transforms military uniforms into handmade paper. Join Ithaca-based artist and veteran Nathan Lewis as he demonstrates how to transform uniforms into pulp, while discussing the myriad ways that textiles carry stories.<\/p>\n The Dialogue + Studio workshop series offers participants opportunities to gain insight into and engage with self-taught art, past and present, at a deep level. Focused discussions about select themes, techniques, and materials featured in current exhibitions couple with related expert-led hands-on workshops.<\/p>\n Combat Paper will conduct the demo over the course of three hours. Please drop-in anytime from 2 to 5 PM<\/span>. Average time spent will be approximately 20 minutes.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nathan Lewis<\/strong> is a papermaker and bookbinder (but his parents only know about the tree service he works for). The first time that he made paper, he used the U.S. Army uniform that he wore in the United States military invasion of Iraq. His work continues to deal with themes of war and the military. Nathan maintains a secret book arts bunker in the hills of the Finger Lakes. Look for his neatly stacked pile of firewood.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image courtesy of Combat Paper<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"RSVP","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/dialogue-studio-combat-paper-tickets-36160907247","day":"12","month":"Oct","year":"2017","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/dialogue-studio-combat-paper\/"},"18":{"ID":15545,"post_type":"programs","title":"Julia Bryan-Wilson on Gender, Politics, and Textiles 9\/28\/17","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2017-07-19 19:15:08","name":"julia-bryan-wilson-on-gender-politics-and-textiles","parent":0,"modified":"2017-10-04 16:41:02","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":40,"name":"Discussions","slug":"discussions","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":40,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":15553,"id":15553,"title":"bryanwilson-banner","filename":"bryanwilson-banner.jpg","filesize":196928,"url":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bryanwilson-banner.jpg","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/julia-bryan-wilson-on-gender-politics-and-textiles\/bryanwilson-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"bryanwilson-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":15545,"date":"2017-07-19 19:20:57","modified":"2017-07-19 19:20:57","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bryanwilson-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bryanwilson-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bryanwilson-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bryanwilson-banner-1024x374.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":374,"1536x1536":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bryanwilson-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bryanwilson-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bryanwilson-list.jpg","headline":"Julia Bryan-Wilson on Gender, Politics, and Textiles ","di_date":"2017-09-28","excerpt":" Art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson will present an illustrated overview of her recent publication\u00a0Fray: Art and Textile Politics\u00a0<\/em>(University of Chicago Press, 2017).<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"8:00 pm","admission":"$8 members, students, seniors; $10 non-members","main_content":"
\nElizabeth and Irwin Warren
\nJill Soltau, President and CEO, Joann Stores<\/em>
\nGail O. Mellow, President, LaGuardia Community College<\/em><\/p>\n
\nKarin and Jonathan Fielding
\nBarbara Gordon and Steve Cannon
\nLaura and Richard Parsons<\/p>\n
\nMonty Blanchard and Leslie Tcheyan
\nGreg and Susan Danilow
\nLucy and Mike Danziger
\nJimmy and Debby Goodman
\nPeter Gruenberger and Carin Lamm
\nPenny and Allan Katz
\nJeffrey Pressman and Nancy Kollisch
\nJoanna S. Rose
\nLeslie Seeman and David Becker<\/p>\nEvent\u00a0Details<\/h4>\n
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