Bill Traylor: Beyond the Figure, a full-day symposium, was presented September 16, 2013. Organized by Dr. Val\u00e9rie Rousseau.<\/p>\n","main_content":"
Bill Traylor: Beyond the Figure, a full-day symposium, was presented September 16, 2013. Organized by Dr. Val\u00e9rie Rousseau. Proceedings will be available for purchase.<\/p>\n
Welcome<\/b>
\nAnne-Imelda Radice, PhD, executive director, American Folk Art Museum
\nVal\u00e9rie Rousseau, PhD, curator, art of the self-taught and art brut, American Folk Art Museum<\/p>\n
Opening Lecture<\/b>
\nMaking Hidden Things Visible<\/i>
\nMechal Sobel, professor emeritus, University of Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n
Morning Session: Narratives<\/b>
\nIntroduction by moderator Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/p>\n
Traylor’s World: A Closer Look<\/i>
\nJeffrey Wolf, filmmaker, and Susan Mitchell Crawley, independent curator<\/p>\n
Bill Traylor Reporting<\/i>
\nBernard L. Herman, professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/p>\n
Telling Tales<\/i>
\nPeter Morrin, director, Center for Arts and Culture Partnerships, University of Louisville, Kentucky<\/p>\n
Afternoon Session: Tradition and Reception<\/b>
\nIntroduction by moderator Alana D. Schilling, PhD, writer and Independent art critic<\/p>\n
Bill Traylor in Context: African American Artists and Modern Primitives<\/i>
\nBridget R. Cooks, associate professor, University of California, Irvine<\/p>\n
On the Absence and Pressence of Bill Traylor within Euro-American and African American Modernist Thought<\/i>
\nCharles Russell, professor emeritus, Rutgers University<\/p>\n
Mules, Men, Women, and Spirits Conjure in Bill Traylor’s Time<\/i>
\nRandall Morris, writer and gallerist<\/p>\n
Bill Traylor’s Radical Contemporaneity<\/i>
\nJudith McWillie, professor emeritus, University of Georgia, Athens<\/p>\n
Keynote Address<\/b>
\nRadcliffe Bailey, artist<\/p>\n
The symposium is sponsored in party by the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Programs on self-taught artists are funded in part by Audrey Heckler and the American Folk Art Museum]s Council for the Study of Art Brut and the Self-Taught, which supports exhibitions, education, conservation, and preservation of twentieth-century and contemporary materials, development of original scholarly research and publications, and acquisitions of new works.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Image: UNTITLED (Two Men, Dog, and Owl), Bill Traylor (c. 1854\u20131949), Montgomery, Alabama, 1939\u20131942, colored pencil and charcoal on cardboard, 13 3\/4 x 10 7\/8 in., Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"category":{"term_id":25,"name":"Symposia & Lectures","slug":"symposiaandlectures","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"day":"16","month":"Sep","year":"2013","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/bill-traylor-beyond-the-figure\/"}]