{"0":{"ID":13786,"post_type":"programs","title":"Special Family Event: Fables Across Time 12\/17\/16","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2016-11-03 20:58:25","name":"special-family-event-fables-across-time","parent":0,"modified":"2017-10-04 18:23:41","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":35,"name":"Families","slug":"familyprograms","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":35,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":13855,"id":13855,"title":"screen-shot-2016-11-11-at-11-47-55-am","filename":"Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","filesize":540116,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/special-family-event-fables-across-time\/screen-shot-2016-11-11-at-11-47-55-am\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"Illustration by Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir","name":"screen-shot-2016-11-11-at-11-47-55-am","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":13786,"date":"2016-11-11 18:27:15","modified":"2016-12-19 18:38:09","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":557,"height":409,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM-300x220.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":220,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","medium_large-width":557,"medium_large-height":409,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","large-width":557,"large-height":409,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","1536x1536-width":557,"1536x1536-height":409,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","2048x2048-width":557,"2048x2048-height":409}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-1.23.39-PM.png","headline":"Special Family Event: Fables across Time","di_date":"2016-12-17","excerpt":"

Join us for a special reading, in Arabic and English, of the children’s book\u00a0Fables across Time<\/em>, at the Collections and Education Center in Long Island City, Queens.<\/p>\n","more_info":[{"acf_fc_layout":"program_description","header":"Special Family Event: Fables Across Time","image":false,"text":"

Participants will begin with a special reading, in Arabic and English, of the children’s book\u00a0Fables Across Time<\/em>, written and illustrated by Sabiha Al Khemir. Following, there will be a Q&A with the storyteller, tours of select artworks from the Museum’s permanent collection, and a related hands-on art workshop.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir<\/strong> is a professor of Islamic art, author, lecturer, and artist, and was the founding director of the Museum of Islamic Art\u00a0in Doha, Qatar.\u00a0She is the president of the SAK Foundation, a nonprofit organization, which aims to foster cross-cultural creative exchange. She was born in Tunisia and currently lives in New York City.<\/p>\n

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Participants will begin with a special reading, in Arabic and English, of the children’s book\u00a0Fables across Time<\/em>, written and illustrated by Sabiha Al Khemir. Following\u00a0the reading, there will be a Q&A with the storyteller, tours of select artworks from the museum’s permanent collection, and a related hands-on art workshop.\u00a0Original artwork from the book will also be on display in the gallery.<\/p>\n

The event will be held at the museum’s Collections and Education Center in Long Island City, Queens.<\/p>\n

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American Folk Art Museum<\/p>\n

47-29 32nd Place<\/p>\n

Long Island City, Queens<\/p>\n

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Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir<\/strong> is a professor of Islamic art, author, lecturer, and artist, and was the founding director of the Museum of Islamic Art\u00a0in Doha, Qatar.\u00a0She is the president of the SAK Foundation, a nonprofit organization, which aims to foster cross-cultural creative exchange. She was born in Tunisia and currently lives in New York City.<\/p>\n

\"sabiha-headshot\"<\/a><\/p>\n

RSVP required, for information: familyprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/a> or 212. 265. 0605<\/p>\n

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Illustration by\u00a0Sabiha Al Khemir.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Reserve tickets","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/special-family-event-fables-across-time-tickets-29382677379","day":"17","month":"Dec","year":"2016","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/special-family-event-fables-across-time\/"},"1":{"ID":13869,"post_type":"programs","title":"Fables Across Time Book Signing 12\/8\/16","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2016-11-16 16:48:41","name":"fables-across-time-book-signing","parent":0,"modified":"2017-10-04 18:30:56","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":13855,"id":13855,"title":"screen-shot-2016-11-11-at-11-47-55-am","filename":"Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","filesize":540116,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/special-family-event-fables-across-time\/screen-shot-2016-11-11-at-11-47-55-am\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"Illustration by Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir","name":"screen-shot-2016-11-11-at-11-47-55-am","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":13786,"date":"2016-11-11 18:27:15","modified":"2016-12-19 18:38:09","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":557,"height":409,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM-300x220.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":220,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","medium_large-width":557,"medium_large-height":409,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","large-width":557,"large-height":409,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","1536x1536-width":557,"1536x1536-height":409,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","2048x2048-width":557,"2048x2048-height":409}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.47.55-AM.png","headline":"Fables Across Time Book Signing","di_date":"2016-12-08","excerpt":"

Join us for\u00a0a reception and book signing for the launch of Fables across Time<\/i>\u00a0with Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir.<\/p>\n","start_time":"5:00 pm","end_time":"8:00 pm","admission":"Free","main_content":"

American Folk Art Museum President Monty Blanchard and Executive Director Anne-Imelda Radice cordially invite AFAM patrons\u00a0to a reception and book signing for\u00a0Fables across Time<\/i>, an Arabic- and English-language children’s book written and illustrated\u00a0by Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir. All are welcome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A collection of animal fables, the book centers around the jackals Kalila and Dimna, who are also brothers. The story cycle originated in India more than two thousand years ago and circulated widely in the Near East. It is considered one of the most popular collections of stories ever written. Three of the stories have been adapted in this book; they are tales about resourcefulness, jealousy, and friendship.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir is professor of art history, author, museum consultant, and artist, as well as the president of the Sabiha Al Khemir Foundation, a nonprofit organization that fosters cross-cultural creative exchange. She was the founding director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. She began drawing and painting as a child, and her artwork has appeared in publications in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She is the author of a number of books about Islamic art and also writes novels. She has written and presented a number of television documentaries. Dr. Al Khemir was born in Tunisia and lives in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please RSVP by December 5<\/span><\/span> to rsvp@folkartmuseum.org<\/a> or 212. 595. 9533, ext. 306.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"day":"08","month":"Dec","year":"2016","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/fables-across-time-book-signing\/"},"3":{"ID":13224,"post_type":"programs","title":"Death and Mourning in American Folk Music 12\/6\/16","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2016-09-27 15:52:42","name":"death-and-mourning-in-american-folk-music","parent":0,"modified":"2017-10-04 18:32:24","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":26,"name":"Performances","slug":"performance","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":26,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":13433,"id":13433,"title":"Screen Shot 2016-09-27 at 11.30.25 AM","filename":"Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","filesize":525079,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/death-and-mourning-in-american-folk-music\/screen-shot-2016-09-27-at-11-30-25-am\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"screen-shot-2016-09-27-at-11-30-25-am","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":13224,"date":"2016-09-27 15:30:42","modified":"2016-09-27 15:30:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":797,"height":474,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM-300x178.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":178,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":457,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","large-width":797,"large-height":474,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","1536x1536-width":797,"1536x1536-height":474,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","2048x2048-width":797,"2048x2048-height":474}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","headline":"Death and Mourning in American Folk Music","di_date":"2016-12-06","excerpt":"

Musicians Eli Smith, the Four O\u2019Clock Flowers, and Mamie Minch will play American folk songs centered around the theme of death and mourning in the down-home tradition. A conversation with the musicians will conclude the performance.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"8:30 pm","performer_or_host":"Eli Smith, the Four O\u2019Clock Flowers, and Mamie Minch","admission":"$7 members, students, seniors; $10 non-members","main_content":"

Musicians Eli Smith, the Four O\u2019Clock Flowers, and Mamie Minch will play American folk songs centered around the theme of death and mourning in the down-home tradition. A conversation with the musicians will conclude the performance.<\/p>\n

Beer will be graciously provided by Lagunitas Brewing Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Eli Smith<\/strong> is a banjo player, writer, researcher, and promoter of folk music, living in Brooklyn, NY.\u00a0 Eli is a Smithsonian Folkways recording artist and produces two folk festivals annually: the\u00a0Brooklyn Folk Festival\u00a0in the spring and\u00a0Washington Square Park Folk Festival<\/a>\u00a0in the fall.\u00a0 He has appeared as a guest on terrestrial radio stations such as WBAI, WNYC, WKCR, and WDST in New York and KPFA, KPFK, and KUCI in California.\u00a0 Eli has presented panels and discussions on folk music at the Left Forum conference and at the Podcamp podcasting conference in New York City.\u00a0 In 2004 he traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, as an American delegate to the Encuentro Mundial de Intelectuales y Artistas \u201cEn Defense de la Humanidad\u201d (World Encounter of Intellectuals and Artists \u201cfor the Defense of Humanity\u201d).\u00a0 Eli also served as music consultant for the Civil War film\u00a0Racing Daylight\u00a0<\/em>(2007).\u00a0 He has performed and recorded with his old time string band\u00a0The Down Hill Strugglers<\/a>, as well as with Peter Stampfel and John Cohen. The Down Hill Strugglers were recently featured on the soundtrack album to the Coen Brothers\u2019 film\u00a0Inside Llewyn Davis<\/em> (2013),\u00a0which was produced by T Bone Burnett.<\/p>\n

The Four O’Clock Flowers\u00a0<\/strong>are a New York-based folk and blues duo composed of Samoa Wilson and Ernest Vega.<\/p>\n

Mamie Minch<\/strong> is a blues guitarist and singer. She plays songs that sound like they’ve been stored inside her 1930’s National steel guitar for decades. She has found her voice in reviving and writing antique blues songs and ballads that bridge historical record and contemporary life. Her low-down, tough tenor singing voice is supported by a guitar style drawn from Memphis Minnie and Bukka White. She lives and plays in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

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Photo credits: (Left) Eli Smith by Lou Murray; (Right) Mamie Minch by Rowan Renee.<\/span><\/p>\n","gallery":[{"acf_fc_layout":"video","url":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/201152663","host":"Vimeo"}],"show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Reserve tickets","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/death-and-mourning-in-american-folk-music-tickets-27939319256","day":"06","month":"Dec","year":"2016","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/death-and-mourning-in-american-folk-music\/"},"5":{"ID":13791,"post_type":"programs","title":"\"Folksgiving\" with Victory Club 11\/15\/16","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2016-11-04 15:34:06","name":"folksgiving-with-victory-club","parent":0,"modified":"2017-10-04 18:23:11","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":13792,"id":13792,"title":"https-%2f%2fcdn-evbuc-com%2fimages%2f25425429%2f87644248021%2f1%2foriginal","filename":"https-2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F254254292F876442480212F12Foriginal.jpg","filesize":120517,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/https-2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F254254292F876442480212F12Foriginal.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/folksgiving-with-victory-club\/https-%2f%2fcdn-evbuc-com%2fimages%2f25425429%2f87644248021%2f1%2foriginal\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"https-%2f%2fcdn-evbuc-com%2fimages%2f25425429%2f87644248021%2f1%2foriginal","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":13791,"date":"2016-11-04 15:28:23","modified":"2016-11-04 15:28:23","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/https-2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F254254292F876442480212F12Foriginal-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/https-2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F254254292F876442480212F12Foriginal-300x150.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/https-2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F254254292F876442480212F12Foriginal-768x384.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/https-2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F254254292F876442480212F12Foriginal.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":400,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/https-2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F254254292F876442480212F12Foriginal.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":400,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/https-2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F254254292F876442480212F12Foriginal.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":400}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/https-2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F254254292F876442480212F12Foriginal.jpg","headline":"\"Folksgiving\" with Young Folk and Victory Club","di_date":"2016-11-15","excerpt":"

Celebrate Thanksgiving with Young Folk and Victory Club!<\/p>\n","start_time":"7:00 pm","end_time":"8:30 pm","admission":"$35 Young Folk\/Victory Club members; $40 for non-members","main_content":"

Celebrate Thanksgiving with Young Folk and Victory Club!<\/p>\n

Come for an exclusive tour of the current exhibition\u00a0Securing the Shadow<\/em><\/a>, enhanced with delicious seasonal bites created for the occasion by artist-chef Stephanie Nass. Join Young Folk and Victory Club, a supper club which brings twenty- and thirty-somethings together over food and art, for a festive “Folksgiving!”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Victory Club.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Reserve tickets","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/folksgiving-with-victory-club-tickets-28922904185?aff=ehomecard","day":"15","month":"Nov","year":"2016","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/folksgiving-with-victory-club\/"},"6":{"ID":13226,"post_type":"programs","title":"Walking Tour of Green-Wood Cemetery 11\/12\/16","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2016-09-21 20:51:40","name":"walking-tour-of-green-wood-cemetery","parent":0,"modified":"2018-07-09 14:57:48","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":13322,"id":13322,"title":"Screen Shot 2016-09-21 at 4.49.09 PM","filename":"Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.49.09-PM.png","filesize":845804,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.49.09-PM.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/walking-tour-of-green-wood-cemetery\/screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-4-49-09-pm\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"Photo by Allison C. Meier","name":"screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-4-49-09-pm","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":13226,"date":"2016-09-21 20:50:23","modified":"2016-09-22 18:31:50","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":712,"height":536,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.49.09-PM-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.49.09-PM-300x225.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.49.09-PM.png","medium_large-width":712,"medium_large-height":536,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.49.09-PM.png","large-width":712,"large-height":536,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.49.09-PM.png","1536x1536-width":712,"1536x1536-height":536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.49.09-PM.png","2048x2048-width":712,"2048x2048-height":536}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.49.09-PM.png","headline":"Walking Tour of Green-Wood Cemetery\u2014SOLD OUT","di_date":"2016-11-12","excerpt":"

Join Brooklyn-based writer Allison C. Meier for a walking tour of Green-Wood Cemetery. Learn about the history of the site and discover its rich collection of gravestone portraiture and Victorian visuals. Limited to 30 individuals.<\/p>\n","start_time":"2:00 pm","end_time":"4:00 pm","performer_or_host":"Allison C. Meier","admission":"$20 members, students, seniors; $25 non-members","main_content":"

This event is sold out.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Join Brooklyn-based writer Allison C. Meier for a walking tour of Green-Wood Cemetery. Learn about the history of the site and discover its rich collection of gravestone portraiture and Victorian visuals. Limited to 30 individuals. The event will take place rain or shine.<\/p>\n

Please meet at the\u00a0Gothic arch inside the entrance at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue\u00a0(one\u00a0block from the 25th Street R subway stop).<\/p>\n

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Allison C. Meier<\/strong> is a Brooklyn-based writer focusing on the arts and overlooked history.\u00a0Currently, she is staff writer at Hyperallergic<\/em>, and\u00a0moonlights as\u00a0a cemetery tour guide\u00a0at New York burial grounds.\u00a0She has also worked as the\u00a0senior editor at\u00a0Atlas Obscura<\/em>,\u00a0communications manager at the\u00a0Cooper Union, staff writer at\u00a0ARTINFO, and development coordinator at\u00a0Untitled [ArtSpace]. Her freelance work includes stories for the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0Art Desk<\/em>,\u00a0ARTNews<\/em>, Narrative.ly<\/em>,\u00a0Brooklyn Based<\/em>, the\u00a0Oklahoma Gazette<\/em>,\u00a0Oklahoma Today Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0Bust<\/em>, and others.<\/p>\n

Photo by\u00a0Allison C. Meier.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Reserve tickets","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/walking-tour-of-green-wood-cemetery-tickets-27939471712","day":"12","month":"Nov","year":"2016","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/walking-tour-of-green-wood-cemetery\/"},"7":{"ID":13220,"post_type":"programs","title":"Screening: A Family Undertaking 11\/10\/16","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2016-09-21 20:55:44","name":"screening-a-family-undertaking","parent":0,"modified":"2017-10-04 18:34:36","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":13325,"id":13325,"title":"Screen Shot 2016-09-21 at 4.54.09 PM","filename":"Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.54.09-PM.png","filesize":524591,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.54.09-PM.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/screening-a-family-undertaking\/screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-4-54-09-pm\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"Photo by Andrew Kist.","name":"screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-4-54-09-pm","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":13220,"date":"2016-09-21 20:54:43","modified":"2016-09-22 18:33:03","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":508,"height":508,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.54.09-PM-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.54.09-PM-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.54.09-PM.png","medium_large-width":508,"medium_large-height":508,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.54.09-PM.png","large-width":508,"large-height":508,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.54.09-PM.png","1536x1536-width":508,"1536x1536-height":508,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.54.09-PM.png","2048x2048-width":508,"2048x2048-height":508}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-4.54.09-PM.png","headline":"Screening: A Family Undertaking","di_date":"2016-11-10","excerpt":"

Filmmaker Elizabeth Westrate will introduce and screen her 2004 documentary A Family Undertaking<\/em> (PBS), which explores the home burial movement in the United States.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"8:30 pm","admission":"$10 members, students, seniors; $12 non-members","main_content":"

Filmmaker Elizabeth Westrate will introduce and screen her 2004 documentary A Family Undertaking<\/em> (PBS), which explores the home burial movement in the United States. The evening will conclude with a dialogue between Westrate and Margaret Schwartz, Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.<\/p>\n

Film Description:<\/p>\n

A Family Undertaking <\/em>is a documentary film that follows several families as they forgo a typical mortuary funeral to care for their loved ones at home. This project was broadcast to critical acclaim on the PBS series P.O.V.<\/em> in 2004 with an encore airing in 2006 and a coordinated broadcast on the Public Radio International program, The Next Big Thing. <\/em>The film premiered at the Silverdoces Film Festival and was also broadcast internationally on the series True Stories: Life in the U.S.A. <\/em>It has screened at festivals and art museums across the country, and was funded by The Independent Television Service.<\/p>\n

Trailer for A Family Undertaking<\/em>:\u00a0http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/afamilyundertaking\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Westrate<\/strong> is a documentary filmmaker based in New York City. She has over twenty years of production experience in feature documentaries, episodic television, music videos, and commercials. Currently, she is collaborating on projects with Roger Ross Williams and Dror Moreh. She is also producer and director of the James Wolfensohn Tribute Film & Oral History Project. Past projects include line producer for The Earth Moves, <\/em>a feature length documentary about Philip Glass and Robert Wilson\u2019s revolutionary opera \u201cEinstein on the Beach\u201d; producer and director of Passing On the Gift: Heifer International\u2019s Mission to End Hunger<\/em>; and line producer of the feature documentary The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, <\/em>among many other projects. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film & Television Production from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1992.<\/p>\n

Margaret Schwartz<\/strong> is a professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. Her work focuses on the problematic of the material and mediation\u2014that is, between objects, bodies, and things, and the ways in which they are meaningfully articulated and circulated in media texts. Dr. Schwartz\u2019s publications cover such themes as the corpse as cultural object, celebrity bodies in public, and translation as an act of communication ethics. She is the author of Dead Matter: The Meaning of Iconic Corpses<\/em> (2015), published by the University of Minnesota Press.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>In it she argues that corpses only become legible insofar as they are productive of legacies\u2014and thus productive of value in the age of late capitalistic nostalgia. She illustrates the ways in which corpses mean and matter as unique things, able to persist outside of the logic of late capitalism. In this way she suggests a model for a more humane mode of grieving.<\/p>\n

Photo by\u00a0Andrew Kist.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Reserve tickets","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/screening-a-family-undertaking-tickets-27910593336","day":"10","month":"Nov","year":"2016","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/screening-a-family-undertaking\/"},"9":{"ID":13214,"post_type":"programs","title":"Dialogue + Studio: Day of the Dead 11\/1\/16","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2016-09-21 21:06:50","name":"day-of-the-dead","parent":0,"modified":"2017-10-04 19:01:26","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":13329,"id":13329,"title":"Screen Shot 2016-09-21 at 5.05.24 PM","filename":"Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-5.05.24-PM.png","filesize":353169,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-5.05.24-PM.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/day-of-the-dead\/screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-5-05-24-pm\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"Image: Jose Guadalupe Posada, La Calavera Catrina, 1910-1913","name":"screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-5-05-24-pm","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":13214,"date":"2016-09-21 21:06:14","modified":"2016-09-22 18:34:25","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":719,"height":359,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-5.05.24-PM-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-5.05.24-PM-300x149.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":149,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-5.05.24-PM.png","medium_large-width":719,"medium_large-height":359,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-5.05.24-PM.png","large-width":719,"large-height":359,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-5.05.24-PM.png","1536x1536-width":719,"1536x1536-height":359,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-5.05.24-PM.png","2048x2048-width":719,"2048x2048-height":359}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-5.05.24-PM.png","headline":"Dialogue + Studio: Day of the Dead","di_date":"2016-11-01","excerpt":"

Teaching artist Tamara Geisler will lead a Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos<\/em>) workshop focused on the symbolism of flowers in the Mexican tradition.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"8:00 pm","performer_or_host":"Tamara Geisler ","admission":"$15 members, students, seniors; $20 non-members","main_content":"

Teaching artist Tamara Geisler will lead a Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos<\/em>) workshop focused on the symbolism of flowers in the Mexican tradition. Participants will learn how to make papel picados<\/em> and paper marigolds, as well as collaboratively create a Day of the Dead altar. All materials will be provided. Limited to 20 participants.<\/p>\n

Tamara Geisler is an actor, teaching artist, and producer. Born in Mexico City, Tamara moved to the United States at the age of three. She received her education from the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, the British American Dramatic Academy in London, and received her Bachelors Degree in English and theater from Barnard College. Since 1994, she has assisted at workshops on Mexican folklore and cultural traditions, including Dia de los Muertos<\/em> programs. Her commitment to teaching about Mexican identity includes work at the Children\u2019s Museum, the Newark Museum, and the American Crafts Museum. She also received a 2012 JP Morgan Chase Artists in Our Communities<\/em> grant.<\/p>\n

Image: Jose Guadalupe Posada, La Calavera Catrina, 1910-1913<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Reserve tickets","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/dialogue-studio-series-day-of-the-dead-tickets-27904125992","day":"01","month":"Nov","year":"2016","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/day-of-the-dead\/"},"10":{"ID":13112,"post_type":"programs","title":"Fall 2016 Benefit Gala","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2016-09-13 20:03:14","name":"american-folk-art-museum-fall-benefit-gala","parent":0,"modified":"2017-06-27 19:51:07","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":13115,"id":13115,"title":"Screen Shot 2016-09-13 at 2.22.03 PM","filename":"Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-2.22.03-PM.png","filesize":1591760,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-2.22.03-PM.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/american-folk-art-museum-fall-benefit-gala\/screen-shot-2016-09-13-at-2-22-03-pm\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"screen-shot-2016-09-13-at-2-22-03-pm","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":13112,"date":"2016-09-13 18:23:18","modified":"2016-09-13 18:23:18","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1286,"height":671,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-2.22.03-PM-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-2.22.03-PM-300x156.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":156,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-2.22.03-PM.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":401,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-2.22.03-PM-1024x534.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":534,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-2.22.03-PM.png","1536x1536-width":1286,"1536x1536-height":671,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-2.22.03-PM.png","2048x2048-width":1286,"2048x2048-height":671}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-13-at-2.22.03-PM.png","headline":"Fall 2016 Benefit Gala","di_date":"2016-10-26","excerpt":"

The annual Fall Benefit Gala provides a primary source of funding for the museum\u00a0and its acclaimed educational programs. The 2016 benefit honors Lucy and Mike Danziger, The Ford Foundation, and Thornton Dial.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"9:30 pm","main_content":"

The annual Fall Benefit Gala provides a primary source of funding for the 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.<\/p>\n

For more information, or to purchase a table or tickets, please contact Elizabeth Kingman, Deputy Director for Administration and Development, at 212. 265. 1061 or<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/em>ekingman@folkartmuseum.org<\/em><\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gotham Hall, 1365 Broadway (at West 36 St.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

6:30\u00a0\u2013 9:30 PM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Festive Attire<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

You can also reserve a ticket via Eventbrite<\/span> here<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Honoring<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lucy and Mike Danziger<\/p>\n

The Ford Foundation, accepted by Darren Walker, President<\/p>\n

Thornton Dial, artist, in memoriam<\/p>\n

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Gala Chairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heidi Messer and Tad Martin<\/p>\n

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Vice Chairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott Asen<\/p>\n

Charles Atkins<\/p>\n

Monty Blanchard and Leslie Tcheyan<\/p>\n

Marcy Carsey and Susan Baerwald \/ Just Folk<\/p>\n

Joyce B. Cowin<\/p>\n

Ellie and Edgar M. Cullman Jr.<\/p>\n

Louise Hirschfeld Cullman and Lewis B. Cullman<\/p>\n

Susan Cullman and John Kirby<\/p>\n

Lucy and Mike Danziger<\/p>\n

Peggy and Dick Danziger<\/p>\n

Sheena and David Danziger<\/p>\n

Judy and Tony Evnin<\/p>\n

Karin and Jonathan Fielding<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Fowler<\/p>\n

Emily Frick\u00a0and Robert Froelich<\/p>\n

Marilyn Friedman and Thomas Block<\/p>\n

Rebecca and Michael Gamzon<\/p>\n

Arlyn and Edward L. Gardner<\/p>\n

Barbara Gordon and W. Stephen Cannon<\/p>\n

Barbara and Thomas Israel<\/p>\n

Joan and Victor Johnson<\/p>\n

Allan Katz Americana \/ Penny and Allan Katz<\/p>\n

Phyllis L. Kossoff<\/p>\n

Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder<\/p>\n

Donald E. Newhouse<\/p>\n

Laura and Richard Parsons<\/p>\n

Leslie Seeman and David Becker<\/p>\n

Donald and Rachel Strauber<\/p>\n

Bonnie and Tom Strauss<\/p>\n

Time Warner<\/p>\n

Elizabeth and Irwin Warren<\/p>\n

Paul Washington<\/p>\n

Jack Weeden<\/p>\n

Sue Ann Weinberg<\/p>\n

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Benefit Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Becky and Bob Alexander<\/p>\n

Alberta Arthurs<\/p>\n

Nan Bases<\/p>\n

Lisa Bell<\/p>\n

Edgar and Gail Berner<\/p>\n

James and Barbara Block<\/p>\n

Justine and Robert Bloomingdale<\/p>\n

BNY Mellon<\/p>\n

Laurene Krasny Brown and Marc Brown<\/p>\n

Barbara Bundy<\/p>\n

Nancy and Michael Druckman<\/p>\n

Frances J. Frawley<\/p>\n

John Hays<\/p>\n

Lisa W. Hess<\/p>\n

Andrew Holter<\/p>\n

Mrs. Eckart Kade<\/p>\n

Jane and Gerald Katcher<\/p>\n

Susan and Robert Klein<\/p>\n

Stephen and Wendy Lash<\/p>\n

Jerry Lauren<\/p>\n

David Lefkowitz and Julie Persily<\/p>\n

Lorie Cowen Levy and Charles J. Levy Jr.<\/p>\n

Nadine Levy<\/p>\n

Wendy and Barry Meyer<\/p>\n

Nancy Morris W. Offit<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Pressman and Nancy Kollisch<\/p>\n

Susan W. and Carl W. Robertson<\/p>\n

Cynthia and Robert Schaffner<\/p>\n

Anne Marie and Robert F. Shapiro<\/p>\n

Ellen Stein<\/p>\n

Joel Treisman and Jeanne Raila<\/p>\n

Jean and Raymond Troubh<\/p>\n

Richard Walker<\/p>\n

Cara Zimmerman<\/p>\n

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Young Folk Gala Chairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily Counihan<\/p>\n

Kristina Lopez<\/p>\n

Shelley Pressman<\/p>\n

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Underwriter Table $25,000<\/strong><\/p>\n