{"1":{"ID":23339,"post_type":"programs","title":"Caribbean Arts Festival: Migration of Colors: Island Stories 12\/14\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-12-03 21:05:50","name":"caribbean-arts-festival-migration-of-colors-island-stories","parent":0,"modified":"2020-02-05 16:02:41","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":23340,"id":23340,"title":"caribbean-arts-fest-banner","filename":"caribbean-arts-fest-banner.jpg","filesize":409988,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/caribbean-arts-fest-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/caribbean-arts-festival-migration-of-colors-island-stories\/caribbean-arts-fest-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"caribbean-arts-fest-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":23339,"date":"2019-12-03 21:00:17","modified":"2019-12-03 21:00:17","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/caribbean-arts-fest-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/caribbean-arts-fest-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/caribbean-arts-fest-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/caribbean-arts-fest-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/caribbean-arts-fest-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/caribbean-arts-fest-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/caribbean-arts-fest-list.jpg","headline":"Caribbean Arts Festival: Migration of Colors: Island Stories","di_date":"2019-12-14","excerpt":"
Join us for an offsite family program at the St. Albans branch of the Queens Library. Through guided discussion and hands-on artmaking, we will explore the works of Caribbean artists.<\/p>\n","start_time":"2:00 pm","end_time":"3:00 pm","admission":"Free; no reservation required","main_content":"
Join us for an offsite family program<\/a> at the St. Albans branch of the Queens Library. Through guided discussion and hands-on artmaking, we will explore the works of John Dunkley, Nick Quijano Torres, celebrated Haitian Vodou drapo artist Myrlande Constant, Amos Ferguson, and Jamaican painter Everald Brown. This program is free; no registration is required.<\/p>\n Location:<\/span>\u00a0191-05 Linden Boulevard, St.Albans, NY 11412<\/p>\n Additional Info:<\/span>\u00a0 Please email\u00a0education@folkartmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image:\u00a0<\/strong>Nick Quijano Torres\u00a0(b. 1953);\u00a0Memories of the Veteran<\/em>; Old San Juan, Puerto Rico; 1984; lacquered gouache on paper; 12 1\/4 \u00d7 12 1\/4 in.; Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of Dorothea and Leo Rabkin, 1984.2.1.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"day":"14","month":"Dec","year":"2019","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/caribbean-arts-festival-migration-of-colors-island-stories\/"},"2":{"ID":22859,"post_type":"programs","title":"Field Vision 12\/11\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-09-11 20:29:52","name":"field-vision-12-11-19","parent":0,"modified":"2019-12-04 20:05:00","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":22860,"id":22860,"title":"field-vision-banner","filename":"field-vision-banner.jpg","filesize":296734,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/field-vision-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/field-vision-12-11-19\/field-vision-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"field-vision-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":22859,"date":"2019-09-11 20:28:35","modified":"2019-09-11 20:28:35","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/field-vision-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/field-vision-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/field-vision-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/field-vision-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/field-vision-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/field-vision-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/field-vision-list.jpg","headline":"Field Vision","di_date":"2019-12-11","excerpt":" This discussion will bring exhibition curator Val\u00e9rie Rousseau, curator Robert Cozzolino, and\u00a0specialist Cara Zimmerman into conversation about the expansion of the field of self-taught art through the study of archival material and oral history, around the theme of the supernatural, and to wider audiences.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"8:00 pm","admission":"$8 students, members, artists, seniors; $10 general public ","main_content":" Where is the field of self-taught art heading? This discussion will bring exhibition curator Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/strong>, curator Robert Cozzolino<\/strong> (Minneapolis Institute of Art<\/a>), and specialist Cara Zimmerman<\/strong> (Christie’s) into conversation about the expansion of the field of self-taught art through the study of archival material and oral history, around the theme of the supernatural, and to wider audiences.<\/p>\n Robert Cozzolino<\/strong>, Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), has been called the \u201ccurator of the dispossessed\u201d for championing underrepresented artists and uncommon perspectives on well-known artists. He has collaborated with many contemporary artists, and in 2014 organized the largest American museum exhibition of David Lynch\u2019s visual art. A native of Chicago, he studied at the University of Illinois at Chicago before receiving his MA and PhD (2006) from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. In his work on American art he has emphasized regional diversity, integrating artists of Illinois, Wisconsin, California, and other areas into installations, thematic exhibitions, and his scholarship. Before joining Mia he was the senior curator and Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, where he oversaw more than 30 exhibitions, including retrospectives of George Tooker, Peter Blume, and Elizabeth Osborne. He acquired more than 2,000 objects for PAFA, mostly gifts, including the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women and major collections of work by Sue Coe, Ellen Lanyon, and Miriam Schapiro.\u00a0He is co-editor of and contributor to\u00a0Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now<\/i>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2018) and is curating a major survey of the paranormal in American art from the Salem Witch Trials to U.F.O.s.<\/p>\n Cara Zimmerman<\/strong>\u00a0joined Christie\u2019s in 2014 as a specialist in folk and outsider art. Since then, she has been involved with and developed multiple major sales, including the unprecedented January 2016 sale of William Edmondson\u2019s Boxer,<\/em> which set a world auction record for a piece of outsider art. Zimmerman previously worked for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she coordinated the critically acclaimed exhibition\u00a0Great and Mighty Things: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection<\/i>, and she served as executive director for the Foundation for Self-Taught Artists in Philadelphia. She has edited and written for catalogs published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; San Jose State University; and the University of Delaware University Museums; and is a contributor to Raw Vision<\/em> magazine. She has lectured at museums and universities throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.<\/p>\n Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/strong> is Senior Curator of Self-Taught Art and Art Brut at the American Folk Art Museum. Since 2013, she has curated exhibitions on artists from various countries, including the AAMC Award\u2013winning When the Curtain Never Comes Down on performance art (2015); Once Something Has Lived It Can Never Really Die on Ronald Lockett, Melvin Way, Native American effigies, and Brazilian ex-votos (2016); Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet (2015); and shows on Bill Traylor (2013) and William Van Genk (2014). The Director of Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des arts indisciplin\u00e9s, Montreal, from 2001 to 2007, Rousseau built an archive on art practices emerging outside the art mainstream and organized exhibitions, notably Richard Greaves: Anarchitect (2005\u20132007). Rousseau holds a PhD in art history and an MA in art theory, both from Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, as well as an MA in anthropology from \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She is the author of the essays \u201cVisionary Architectures\u201d (The Alternative Guide to the Universe, Hayward Gallery, 2013), \u201cRevealing Art Brut\u201d (Culture & Mus\u00e9es, 2010), and Vestiges de l\u2019indiscipline (Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2007).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Images:<\/strong>\u00a0Sam Doyle (1906\u20131985, St. Helena Island, SC); Penn School Drumer<\/em> 1920;<\/em> late 1960s\u2013early 1970s; house paint on tin; 46 x 27 1\/4 in.; Collection of Audrey B. Heckler. Photography \u00a9 Visko Hatfield, courtesy of the Foundation to Promote Self Taught Art and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n Charlie Willeto (1897\u20131964, Nageezi, Navajo Reservation, NM); untitled; 1961\u20131964; paint and cotton on cottonwood and pine; 161\/4 x 7 1\/4 x 2 3\/4 in.; Collection of Audrey B. Heckler. Photography \u00a9 Visko Hatfield, courtesy of the Foundation to Promote Self Taught Art and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Purchase ticket","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/field-vision-tickets-72432727237","day":"11","month":"Dec","year":"2019","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/field-vision-12-11-19\/"},"3":{"ID":23153,"post_type":"programs","title":"Verbal Description Program 12\/10\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-10-31 09:16:58","name":"verbal-description-program-12-10-19","parent":0,"modified":"2019-10-31 13:56:44","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":36,"name":"Access","slug":"access","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":21296,"id":21296,"title":"verbal-des-banner","filename":"verbal-des-banner.jpg","filesize":287353,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/verbal-des-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/verbal-description-program-5-21-19\/verbal-des-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"verbal-des-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":21293,"date":"2019-03-13 19:35:15","modified":"2019-03-13 19:35:15","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/verbal-des-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/verbal-des-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/verbal-des-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/verbal-des-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/verbal-des-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/verbal-des-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/verbal-des-list.jpg","headline":"Verbal Description Program","di_date":"2019-12-10","excerpt":" Visitors who are blind or partially sighted are invited to join us for an interactive verbal description and touch tour in the museum\u2019s galleries. The tour incorporates verbal imaging techniques and the museum\u2019s Touch Collection, which includes objects that are expressly meant for handling.<\/p>\n","start_time":"10:00 am","end_time":"11:30 am","admission":"Free; registration required","main_content":" <\/p>\n Participants will discuss some of the spectacular artworks on view, then return to the studio to tinker with a variety of materials and create pieces that respond to the art environments.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:00 pm","admission":"Free; registration required","main_content":" Included in the exhibition\u00a0Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler<\/em><\/a>\u00a0are a number of mystical art environments and layered sculptures created with found materials (feathers, glitter, transistor radios, alarm clocks, typewriter pieces). Participants will discuss some of the spectacular artworks on view, then return to the studio to tinker with a variety of materials and create pieces that respond to the art environments.<\/p>\n Families and Folk Art introduces children ages 4 to 12 and their accompanying adults to folk art through interactive discussion-based tours in the galleries followed by hands-on artmaking activities inspired by objects in the museum. Space is limited; registration required. More info: 212. 265. 1040, ext. 381, or\u00a0familyprograms@folkartmuseum. Families and Folk Art is supported by the estate of Marlene Gordon.<\/em><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Register","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/families-and-folk-art-found-materials-art-environments-tickets-71704884239","day":"07","month":"Dec","year":"2019","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/families-and-folk-art-found-materials-art-environments-12-7-19\/"},"6":{"ID":22854,"post_type":"programs","title":"Southern Sounds: Listening Party with Dust-to-Digital 12\/4\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-09-11 20:13:41","name":"southern-sounds-listening-party-with-dust-to-digital-12-4-19","parent":0,"modified":"2019-09-11 20:35:30","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":22855,"id":22855,"title":"southern-sounds-banner","filename":"southern-sounds-banner.jpg","filesize":1019035,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/southern-sounds-listening-party-with-dust-to-digital-12-4-19\/southern-sounds-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"southern-sounds-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":22854,"date":"2019-09-11 20:13:17","modified":"2019-09-11 20:13:17","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/southern-sounds-list.jpg","headline":"Southern Sounds: Listening Party with Dust-to-Digital ","di_date":"2019-12-04","excerpt":" Join us for a listening party hosted by Atlanta-based record company Dust-to-Digital. Founders Lance and April Ledbetter will play recordings issued by their label and discuss the importance of preserving oral histories and music as cultural artifacts.<\/p>\n","start_time":"7:00 pm","end_time":"9:00 pm","admission":"$8 members, students, artists, seniors; $10 general public ","main_content":" Have you ever wondered what the voice of artist Howard Finster sounded like during his sermons? Or what songs Thornton Dial listened to and was inspired by in his studio while he created his iconic artwork? Join us for a listening party hosted by Atlanta-based record company Dust-to-Digital<\/strong><\/a>. Founders Lance and April Ledbetter will play recordings issued by their label and discuss the importance of preserving oral histories and music as cultural artifacts.<\/p>\n Founded by Lance Ledbetter <\/strong>in 1999, Dust-to-Digital is currently operated by Lance and his wife\u00a0April Ledbetter<\/strong>\u00a0in Atlanta, Georgia. Dust-to-Digital began its mission of creating access to hard-to-find music by producing high-quality books, box sets, CDs, DVDs, and vinyl records. The company continues those efforts and has also evolved to the media delivery standards of today\u2014namely, the computer and smart phone. By combining research with images, audio, and videos, Dust-to-Digital is continuing to entertain and to educate new audiences of adventurous listeners.\u00a0In 2012, Lance and April Ledbetter started a non-profit organization. Music Memory<\/a> was formed as a way to take action to ensure the sounds and recordings of our past would be preserved. The goal of this company is to make the music from the past available to researchers, teachers, and the public so that it can educate and enlighten present and future generations. To date, Music Memory has digitized more than 49,000 recordings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image:<\/strong> Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900, LaFayette, AL\u20131980, New Orleans, LA);\u00a0The Greater New Jerusalem<\/em>; c. 1970s; acrylic, gouache, and graphite on paper; 16 x 39 3\/4 in.; Collection of Audrey B. Heckler. Photography \u00a9 Visko Hatfield, courtesy of the Foundation to Promote Self Taught Art. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Purchase ticket","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/southern-sounds-listening-party-with-dust-to-digital-tickets-72432245797","day":"04","month":"Dec","year":"2019","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/southern-sounds-listening-party-with-dust-to-digital-12-4-19\/"},"8":{"ID":22716,"post_type":"programs","title":"Drawing Connections 11\/19\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-08-27 19:56:32","name":"drawing-connections","parent":0,"modified":"2019-11-25 16:55:50","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":22721,"id":22721,"title":"drawing-connections-banner","filename":"drawing-connections-banner.jpg","filesize":305138,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/drawing-connections-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/drawing-connections\/drawing-connections-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"drawing-connections-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":22716,"date":"2019-08-27 19:54:43","modified":"2019-08-27 19:54:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/drawing-connections-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/drawing-connections-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/drawing-connections-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/drawing-connections-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/drawing-connections-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/drawing-connections-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/drawing-connections-list.jpg","headline":"Drawing Connections ","di_date":"2019-11-19","excerpt":" Join us for a special evening of curators in conversation and an artist-led participatory drawing experience, inspired by works on paper featured in the exhibition Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler.<\/em><\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"8:00 pm","admission":"$8 students, members, artist, seniors; $10 general public","main_content":" Join us for a special evening of curators in conversation and an artist-led participatory drawing experience, inspired by works on paper featured in the exhibition Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler. <\/em>Exhibition curator Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/strong> and Laura Hoptman<\/strong>, executive director of The Drawing Center, will discuss working with drawings and the self-taught artists featured in both Memory Palaces <\/em>and The Drawing Center\u2019s concurrent exhibition The Pencil Is a Key<\/em>: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists<\/em><\/a>. Following their conversation, exhibition artist George Widener<\/strong><\/a> will share his interest in The Magic Square and facilitate a hands-on drawing exercise based on its visual and mathematical principles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Laura Hoptman<\/strong> is the executive director of The Drawing Center in New York.<\/p>\n Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/strong>\u00a0is the senior curator of self-taught art and art brut at the American Folk Art Museum.<\/p>\n George Widener<\/strong>\u00a0is a self-taught artist who employs his mathematical\/calculating capability to create art ranging from complex calendars and numerical\u00a0palindromes\u00a0to\u00a0Rembrandt-like antiquarian landscapes to Asian scrolls.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image:<\/strong> Adolf W\u00f6lfli (1864\u20131930, Bern, Switzerland); untitled; 1918; graphite, crayon, and colored pencil on paper; 19 1\/2 x 27 in.; Collection of Audrey B. Heckler. Photography \u00a9 Visko Hatfield, courtesy of the Foundation to Promote Self Taught Art and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n","gallery":[{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":23283,"id":23283,"title":"_A1A6064","filename":"A1A6064.jpg","filesize":206210,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/A1A6064.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/drawing-connections\/_a1a6064\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"_a1a6064","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":22716,"date":"2019-11-25 16:54:43","modified":"2019-11-25 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This discussion will convene scholars to discuss the innovation of self-taught artists and how studying materials and process can lead to a deeper understanding of their work. Speakers include curators Aleesa P. Alexander and Choghakate Kazarian.<\/p>\n Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander<\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>is assistant curator of American art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Her research and curatorial interests include the artistic production of the American South, the relationship between race and modernism, and the history of \u201coutsider\u201d and self-taught art. At the Cantor, she curated the reinstallation of the permanent collection,\u00a0The Medium Is the Message: Art since 1950\u00a0<\/i>(2019),\u00a0<\/i>and serves as the institutional point person for the Asian American Art Initiative. From 2017 to 2018, she was a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she assisted with the exhibitions\u00a0History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963\u20132017\u00a0<\/i>(both 2018). Her research has been supported by the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, the American Craft Council, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Alexander received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2018.<\/p>\n Choghakate Kazarian<\/strong>\u00a0is a curator and art historian whose interests are focused on artistic processes and the interaction between biography and artistic practice. She has been curator at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de Paris from 2011 to 2018 and has curated several exhibitions on artists such as Henry Darger, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Karel Appel. She has edited several exhibition catalogues and published on artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Louis Michel Eilshemius, St\u00e9phane Mandelbaum and those mentioned above. She has a MA in art history from Ecole du Louvre and a MA in philosophy at La Sorbonne. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute of Art with a dissertation on the American artist Albert Pinkham Ryder.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image:<\/strong> Henry Darger (1892-1973); untitled (double-sided); mid-twentieth century; watercolor, pencil, carbon tracing, and collage on pieced paper; 24 x 106 1\/2 in.; museum purchase with funds generously provided by John and Margaret Robson, \u00a9 Kiyoko Lerner, 2004.1.3B. Photo by James Prinz.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Purchase ticket","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/finding-form-in-found-materials-tickets-72430043209","day":"30","month":"Oct","year":"2019","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/finding-form-in-found-materials\/"},"14":{"ID":22704,"post_type":"programs","title":"Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller 10\/10\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-08-27 19:45:20","name":"walter-benjamin-the-storyteller","parent":0,"modified":"2019-10-02 17:27:59","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":22709,"id":22709,"title":"walter-benjamin-banner","filename":"walter-benjamin-banner.jpg","filesize":244690,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/walter-benjamin-the-storyteller\/walter-benjamin-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"walter-benjamin-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":22704,"date":"2019-08-27 19:41:13","modified":"2019-08-27 19:41:13","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/walter-benjamin-list.jpg","headline":"Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller\u2014SOLD OUT","di_date":"2019-10-10","excerpt":" Join the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, The New York Review of Books, and the American Folk Art Museum as we take the occasion of the publication of\u00a0The Storyteller Essays<\/em>\u00a0to examine the meaning and enduring relevance of Walter Benjamin\u2019s essay.<\/p>\n","start_time":"7:00 pm","end_time":"9:00 pm","admission":"Free with RSVP","main_content":" Walter Benjamin\u2019s essay \u201cThe Storyteller\u201d is one of his most important\u2014a profound meditation on the contrast between story-telling and mass communication and the immense significance of the apparent fact that \u201cLess and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly.\u201d Join the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), The New York Review of Books (NYRB), and the American Folk Art Museum as we take the occasion of the NYRB\u2019s publication of\u00a0The Storyteller Essays<\/a><\/em>\u00a0to examine the meaning and enduring relevance of Benjamin\u2019s essay\u2014for modern politics, communication, literature, and sensibility. With BISR\u2019s Christine Smallwood, Suzanne Schneider, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, translator Tess Lewis, and novelist Alexandra Kleeman, we will ask: What distinguishes a story from a novel? How do we acquire knowledge collectively? Why, in the age of mass communication, are we not richer, but poorer in communicable experience? Is political, cultural, and social fragmentation endemic to \u201cmodern\u201d life, and if so, can it be overcome?<\/p>\n A light reception will follow the talk.<\/p>\n Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller\u00a0is organized by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and The New York Review of Books in partnership with the American Folk Art Museum. <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Image:<\/strong> Lorenz Fr\u00f8lich, Death and Wanderer<\/em>, 1848. Courtesy of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Join waitlist","reserve_link":"https:\/\/thebrooklyninstitute.com\/items\/events\/walter-benjamin-the-storyteller\/","day":"10","month":"Oct","year":"2019","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/walter-benjamin-the-storyteller\/"},"15":{"ID":22691,"post_type":"programs","title":"Dialogue + Studio: Painting with Found Pigments 10\/9\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-08-27 19:29:34","name":"dialogue-studio-painting-with-found-pigments","parent":0,"modified":"2019-09-30 14:35:59","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":22694,"id":22694,"title":"painting-pigments-banner","filename":"painting-pigments-banner.jpg","filesize":169532,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/painting-pigments-banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/dialogue-studio-painting-with-found-pigments\/painting-pigments-banner\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"painting-pigments-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":22691,"date":"2019-08-27 19:21:56","modified":"2019-08-27 19:21:56","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/painting-pigments-banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/painting-pigments-banner-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/painting-pigments-banner-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/painting-pigments-banner.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/painting-pigments-banner.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/painting-pigments-banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/painting-pigments-list.jpg","headline":"Dialogue + Studio: Painting with Found Pigments\u2014SOLD OUT","di_date":"2019-10-09","excerpt":" Participants in this workshop will be introduced to the natural colors of foraged mineral pigments and botanical lake pigments.<\/p>\n","start_time":"5:30 pm","end_time":"8:30 pm","admission":"$25 members, students, artists, seniors; $30 general public ","main_content":" **This program is now sold out. To join the waitlist, please submit your name and email through the Eventbrite ticket page<\/a>.**<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\nVisitors who are blind or partially sighted are invited to join us for an interactive verbal description and touch tour in the museum\u2019s galleries. The tour incorporates verbal imaging techniques and the museum\u2019s Touch Collection, which includes objects that are expressly meant for handling. A trained museum educator will facilitate a 90-minute gallery tour exploring the current exhibitions.<\/h3>\n
Memory<\/strong> Palaces:<\/strong> Inside the Collection of Audrey B.<\/strong> Heckler<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
The works revealed in the collection of Audrey B. Heckler are grounded in a variety of human experiences. They have been mainly gathered at a time when their creators\u2014all self-taught\u2014were marginalized by the art mainstream, a context that defined their artistic status temporarily. The perspective for this exhibition, which is centered on an individual approach to each work and its maker, invites us to consider them as memory palaces, which are visualizations used to organize and recall constellations of information in an ever-expanding mental landscape.<\/h3>\n
Heckler\u2019s collection is emblematic of the growth of the field of self-taught art in the United States, which manifests a strong interest for African American artists, a curiosity for European art brut, a consistent attention on American classics, and a search for international discoveries. Known for her keen eye, Heckler has surrounded herself for the last twenty-seven years with excellent examples by the most significant artists in this art niche.<\/h3>\n
Space is limited; registration is required. Contact Rachel Rosen at 212-595-9533, ext. 381 or\u00a0education@folkartmuseum.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Time: 10:00 am\u201311:30 am<\/h3>\n
Free; registration required<\/h3>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"day":"10","month":"Dec","year":"2019","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/verbal-description-program-12-10-19\/"},"5":{"ID":22802,"post_type":"programs","title":"Families and Folk Art: Found Materials & Art Environments 12\/7\/19","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2019-09-09 18:35:20","name":"families-and-folk-art-found-materials-art-environments-12-7-19","parent":0,"modified":"2019-09-10 14:55:01","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":18930,"id":18930,"title":"familiesandfolk2","filename":"familiesandfolk2.jpg","filesize":281384,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/familiesandfolk2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/families-folk-art-botanists-eye-9-22-18\/familiesandfolk2\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"familiesandfolk2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":18523,"date":"2018-07-09 18:05:33","modified":"2018-07-09 18:05:33","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1140,"height":460,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/familiesandfolk2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/familiesandfolk2-300x121.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":121,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/familiesandfolk2-768x310.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":310,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/familiesandfolk2.jpg","large-width":1140,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/familiesandfolk2.jpg","1536x1536-width":1140,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/familiesandfolk2.jpg","2048x2048-width":1140,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/families_403.jpg","headline":"Families and Folk Art: Found Materials & Art Environments","di_date":"2019-12-07","excerpt":"