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Untitled, 1969–1976

Madalena Santos Reinbolt

Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets

February 12, 2025–May 25, 2025
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Birds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost

Thornton Dial Sr. (1928–2016)

Somewhere to Roost

February 12, 2025–May 25, 2025
Traveling Exhibition
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Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art

February 1, 2025–May 11, 2025

Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art is now on view at the Taft Museum of Art

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Traveling Exhibition
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Spider Web Quilt

Artist Unidentified

Wall Power! Spectacular Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum

February 8, 2025–May 11, 2025

Wall Power! Spectacular Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum in now on view at the Susquehanna Art Museum.

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Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic

September 13, 2024–January 26, 2025

Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture

September 13, 2024–January 26, 2025

Tosquelles

April 12, 2024–August 18, 2024

Unnamed Figures

November 15, 2023–March 24, 2024

Curator: Co-curated by Emelie Gevalt, RL Watson, and Sadé Ayorinde

Marvels of My Own Inventiveness

November 15, 2023–March 24, 2024

Curator: Brooke Wyatt and Sadé Ayorinde

What That Quilt Knows About Me

March 17, 2023–October 29, 2023

Curator: Emelie Gevalt and Sadé Ayorinde

Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work

March 17, 2023–October 29, 2023

Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered

September 23, 2022–January 29, 2023

Curator: Richard Meyer and Valérie Rousseau

MULTITUDES

January 21, 2022–September 5, 2022

Curator: Valérie Rousseau and Emelie Gevalt

Pushing Boundaries

January 21, 2022–January 29, 2023

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds

June 23, 2021–January 2, 2022

Curator: Guest Curator: Bob Shaw and Emelie Gevalt

PHOTO | BRUT: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie

January 24, 2021–June 6, 2021

Curator: Curators: Valérie Rousseau, PhD, Senior Curator, and Bruno Decharme in collaboration with Barbara Safarova, Sam Stourdzé, and Paula Aisember

American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection

February 11, 2020–January 3, 2021

Curator: Stacy C. Hollander

Six Decades Collecting Self-Taught Art

August 26, 2019–January 3, 2021

Curator: Dr. Valerie Rousseau and Stacy C. Hollander

Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler

September 17, 2019–January 26, 2020

Curator: Valérie Rousseau

A Piece of Yourself: Gift Giving in Self-Taught Art

July 22, 2019 –January 10, 2020

Curator: Steffi Ibis Duarte

WALL POWER! Quilts from the Werner and Karen Gundersheimer Gift

August 6, 2019–September 1, 2019

Curator: Stacy C. Hollander

Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art

March 15, 2019–July 28, 2019

Curator: Elizabeth V. Warren