{"4":{"ID":25796,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: In the Studio with Noble Signs","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-10-27 21:57:54","name":"virtual-insights-in-the-studio-with-noble-signs","parent":0,"modified":"2020-12-11 19:51:03","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":25797,"id":25797,"title":"Virtual Insights_ Noble Signs","filename":"Virtual-Insights_-Noble-Signs.jpg","filesize":3850484,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Virtual-Insights_-Noble-Signs.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-in-the-studio-with-noble-signs\/virtual-insights_-noble-signs\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"virtual-insights_-noble-signs","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25796,"date":"2020-10-27 21:22:50","modified":"2020-10-27 21:22:50","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":3264,"height":2200,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Virtual-Insights_-Noble-Signs-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Virtual-Insights_-Noble-Signs-300x202.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":202,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Virtual-Insights_-Noble-Signs-768x518.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":518,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Virtual-Insights_-Noble-Signs.jpg","large-width":3264,"large-height":2200,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Virtual-Insights_-Noble-Signs.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1035,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Virtual-Insights_-Noble-Signs.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1380}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Virtual-Insights_-Noble-Signs.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: In the Studio with Noble Signs","di_date":"2020-12-03","excerpt":"
A closer look inside the creative practice of Brooklyn-based design & fabrication studio Noble Signs. Artists and co-founders\u00a0David Barnett and Mac Pohanka will demo techniques and discuss historic signage featured in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Watch a recording of this program online\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:00 pm","end_time":"7:30 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Join us behind the scenes for a look inside the creative practice of Brooklyn-based design & fabrication studio\u00a0Noble Signs<\/a>. Artists, sign painters, and studio co-founders David Barnett and Mac Pohanka will discuss the vanishing art of hand-painted signs in New York City, demo various techniques, and reflect on historic signage featured in the museum\u2019s current exhibition\u00a0American Perspectives<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering for the program, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions and the Zoom link for joining the program via computer or mobile device at the end of the email under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d Closed captioning will be provided. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n David Barnett<\/strong>\u00a0is a graphic artist from New York City. As a Creative Director, he has worked in design, illustration, apparel, publishing, branding, and signage. In 2013, he co-founded his own studio called Noble Signs, specializing in branding and signage. His illustrations have been featured on the album covers of Curren$y, Ski Beatz, and Murs; he has also done illustration and design for Erykah Badu, Future Islands, Bun B, Real Estate, and Cam’ron and Jim Jones of the Diplomats, among others. In the spring of 2014 he held his first solo exhibition at Poppington Gallery in the Lower East Side, including digital illustration, several large paintings, and works in neon and LED light. He exhibited in four other New York area shows that year, in addition to exhibiting at Miami Art Basel. In 2016, he self-released his first book,\u00a0Green Sky<\/em>, in a limited edition of 300 copies. As a designer with Noble Signs, he has worked with clients including Pentagram, Gensler, the Art Students League, Whitney Museum, Lawrence Wiener, Yoko Ono, Afropunk, BMW\/Mini, Opening Ceremony, and Marlow & Sons, among others. He has been featured in\u00a0The New York Times, T Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Clutch Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>Complex Magazine<\/em>, Mass Appeal, The Daily News<\/em>, and more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mac Pohanka<\/strong>\u00a0is a gilder, fabricator and designer. Since 2013, he has been the co-owner of Noble Signs. He started his work in painted finishes and fabrication in high school, working for his father John Pohanka, a fine furniture maker in New England. Graduating in 2008 from Grinnell College with a BA in American Studies, Pohanka moved to New York and studied gilding at the decorative hardware studio Van Gregory and Norton. Soon after he began working as a production designer and prop fabricator in film. During this time, he produced work for Bjork, Encyclopedia Picture, IKEA, Fisher Price and many others. Since founding Noble Signs, he has designed and built storefronts and conceptual signage for a wide variety of clients nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Images: Courtesy of Noble Signs and\u00a0S.D. Plum Tavern Sign;\u00a0<\/em>Artist unidentified; Probably Meriden, Connecticut; 1813; Paint on pine with iron; 51 x 34 x 3″; Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York; Gift of Ralph Esmerian; Photo by John Bigelow Taylor.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/489922538","day":"03","month":"Dec","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-in-the-studio-with-noble-signs\/"},"7":{"ID":25727,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: New Approaches to American Art","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-10-13 16:21:44","name":"virtual-insights-new-approaches-to-american-art","parent":0,"modified":"2020-11-12 16:16:07","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":25745,"id":25745,"title":"AP-exhibit-shot-BANNER2","filename":"AP-exhibit-shot-BANNER2.jpg","filesize":628644,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/AP-exhibit-shot-BANNER2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-new-approaches-to-american-art\/ap-exhibit-shot-banner2\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"ap-exhibit-shot-banner2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25727,"date":"2020-10-14 19:37:30","modified":"2020-10-14 19:37:30","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2430,"height":974,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/AP-exhibit-shot-BANNER2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/AP-exhibit-shot-BANNER2-300x120.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":120,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/AP-exhibit-shot-BANNER2-768x308.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":308,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/AP-exhibit-shot-BANNER2.jpg","large-width":2430,"large-height":974,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/AP-exhibit-shot-BANNER2.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":616,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/AP-exhibit-shot-BANNER2.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":821}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/EX-2020-American-Perspectives-AFAM-002-WEB.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: New Approaches to American Art ","di_date":"2020-11-10","excerpt":" What does it mean to be defined as \u201cAmerican\u201d within museums today? Curators Sylvia Yount, Layla Bermeo, and Kimberli Gant join Curator of Folk Art Emelie Gevalt to reflect on the expanding field of American art and how they are actively re-envisioning more expansive and inclusive narratives within their institutions.<\/p>\n Watch a recording of this program online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:00 pm","end_time":"7:30 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" What does it mean to be defined as \u201cAmerican\u201d within museums today? Artworks in the museum\u2019s current exhibition American Perspectives<\/em> speak to America\u2019s complex social, political, and artistic histories and the issues that have shaped art and society in the United States past and present. Join curators Sylvia Yount, Layla Bermeo, and Kimberli Gant as they reflect on the changing landscape of American art and how they are actively re-envisioning more expansive and inclusive narratives within each of their respective institutions. A Q&A session will follow moderated by Emelie Gevalt, Curator of Folk Art.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering for the program, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions and the Zoom link for joining the program via computer or mobile device at the end of the email under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d Closed captioning will be provided. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. Sylvia Yount<\/strong> is the Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is responsible for the administrative and curatorial oversight of the department of historical African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American art, from the colonial period to the early-twentieth century. Before moving to the Met, she held curatorial leadership positions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in Richmond, and the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta. She began her curatorial career at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia. In addition to completing pivotal collection reinstallations at her former institutions, Yount has organized major exhibitions on Cecilia Beaux, Maxfield Parrish, and American modernism, among other topics focused on women and artists of color in regional and national contexts. She is currently co-curating exhibitions of historical Native arts, Winslow Homer, and the late nineteenth-century New York art world. Yount lectures and publishes widely on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art and culture as well as on issues of curatorial responsibility and museum practice.<\/p>\n Layla Bermeo<\/strong> is the Kristin and Roger Servinson Associate Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Before joining the MFA in 2016, she co-curated the Black History\/Art History Performance Art Series at Harvard University, held curatorial fellowships at the Williams College Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and served as a guest curator at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. At the MFA, Layla has co-organized Collecting Stories: Native American Art (2018-19)<\/em>, curated Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular (2019),<\/em>\u00a0and mentored a team of youth curators who developed the current exhibition, Black Histories, Black Futures.<\/em> She holds a BA from Northwestern University and graduate degrees from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and Harvard University. Last year, WBUR, a National Public Radio News Station, named Layla as one of the 25 millennials of color impacting art and culture in Boston.<\/p>\n Kimberli Gant<\/strong> is the McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA. She was previously the Mellon Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum, in Newark, NJ, and has held curatorial positions at UT\u2019s Warfield Center for African & African Diaspora Studies, The Contemporary Austin, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA) in Brooklyn, New York. Her many exhibitions include Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam Through Time & Place (2016)<\/em>, De-Luxe (2012)<\/em>, There is No Looking Glass Here: Wide Sargasso Sea Re-Imagined (2010)<\/em>, and Johannesburg to New York (2008)<\/em>. Her scholarly work has been published widely in journals, exhibition catalogues, and academic books including Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond (2015)<\/em>. Kimberli received her PhD in Art History from the University of Texas Austin, and holds both an MA and BA in Art History from Columbia University and Pitzer College.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Image: Installation detail of American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection<\/em>; photo by Olya Vysotskaya.<\/p>\n \n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/478529408","day":"10","month":"Nov","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-new-approaches-to-american-art\/"},"10":{"ID":25593,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: In the Studio with Kevin Blythe Sampson","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-09-16 13:53:40","name":"virtual-insights-in-the-studio-with-kevin-blythe-sampson","parent":0,"modified":"2020-10-30 20:06:40","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":25594,"id":25594,"title":"Virtual Insights_ Kevin Blythe Sampson","filename":"Virtual-Insights_-Kevin-Blythe-Sampson.jpg","filesize":3515654,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-Kevin-Blythe-Sampson.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-in-the-studio-with-kevin-blythe-sampson\/virtual-insights_-kevin-blythe-sampson\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"virtual-insights_-kevin-blythe-sampson","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25593,"date":"2020-09-16 13:49:37","modified":"2020-09-16 13:49:37","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":3264,"height":1957,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-Kevin-Blythe-Sampson-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-Kevin-Blythe-Sampson-300x180.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":180,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-Kevin-Blythe-Sampson-768x460.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":460,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-Kevin-Blythe-Sampson.jpg","large-width":3264,"large-height":1957,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-Kevin-Blythe-Sampson.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":921,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-Kevin-Blythe-Sampson.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1228}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-Kevin-Blythe-Sampson.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: In the Studio with Kevin Blythe Sampson","di_date":"2020-10-29","excerpt":" Come behind the scenes with contemporary self-taught artist Kevin Blythe Sampson as he discusses the inspiration he draws from African spiritual traditions, African American folklore, the Black Lives Matter movement, and his own family and community\u2019s histories, as well as his creative practice, current projects, and work featured in the museum\u2019s exhibition<\/span> American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Watch a recording of this program online here.<\/a><\/p>\n","start_time":"6:00 pm","end_time":"7:00 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Power, memory, and transformation are themes that inform and infuse the sculptures and paintings of self-taught artist Kevin Blythe Sampson<\/a>, who draws inspiration from African spiritual traditions, African American folklore, the Black Lives Matter movement, and his own family and community\u2019s histories. Join us behind the scenes for a conversation with the artist about his creative practice, current and upcoming projects, and his work featured in the museum\u2019s exhibition American Perspectives Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection<\/a>.<\/em> A Q&A session with the artist will follow the conversation.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link for joining the program via computer or mobile device at the end of the email under \u2018Additional Information\u2019. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. Learn how to download<\/a> the latest version of Zoom to your computer or mobile device prior to joining the program.<\/p>\n Kevin Blythe Sampson<\/strong> is a sculptor, painter, and muralist recognized for tackling difficult issues that concern him and his Newark, New Jersey, neighbors. Born in Elizabeth, NJ, he\u00a0 grew up in a household that was totally committed to civil rights and community concerns, and this continues to be a recurring theme in his work. Kevin\u2019s father, Stephen was a community leader in both Elizabeth and other parts of New Jersey and remains Kevin\u2019s most important role model. A retired police officer, Kevin worked for the city of Scotch Plains, NJ for over 20 years and was the first African American composite sketch artist in the country. Following his retirement from the police force, Kevin taught at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art for over 16 years until the school\u2019s closing in 1995. He continues to teach at various art schools and community programs, including Express Newark and Rutgers Paul Robeson Gallery. Kevin has been represented by Cavin-Morris Gallery in New York since 1992, and his work is in the American Folk Art Museum and the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, among other museum collections. His work has been supported by grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, as well as residencies at the Cathedral of St John the Divine (1995), the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation (1994-95), the John Michael Kohler Art Center (2016), the Joan Mitchell Center (2017), the Mystic Seaport Museum (2018), and most recently, the Mariposa Museum (2020). Kevin was also recently selected as one of the \u201c100 People in Newark\u201d by the 100 People Foundation.<\/p>\n Photos of the artist in his studio courtesy of Cesar Melgar.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n \n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/473964997","day":"29","month":"Oct","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-in-the-studio-with-kevin-blythe-sampson\/"},"12":{"ID":25587,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Figuring Absence","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-09-15 16:24:48","name":"virtual-insights-figuring-absence","parent":0,"modified":"2020-11-30 22:51:54","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":25588,"id":25588,"title":"Twining Detail","filename":"Twining-Detail.jpg","filesize":747631,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Twining-Detail.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-figuring-absence\/twining-detail\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"twining-detail","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25587,"date":"2020-09-15 16:10:44","modified":"2020-09-15 16:10:44","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1430,"height":826,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Twining-Detail-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Twining-Detail-300x173.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":173,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Twining-Detail-768x444.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":444,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Twining-Detail.jpg","large-width":1430,"large-height":826,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Twining-Detail.jpg","1536x1536-width":1430,"1536x1536-height":826,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Twining-Detail.jpg","2048x2048-width":1430,"2048x2048-height":826}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Twining-Detail.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: Figuring Absence","di_date":"2020-10-20","excerpt":" Join us for a conversation with historian Nalleli Guillen and Curator of Folk Art Emelie Gevalt on race, representation, and exclusion in 18th- and early 19th-century American art.<\/p>\n Watch a recording of this program online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","start_time":"6:00 pm","end_time":"7:30 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Examining a selection of early American artworks and objects from the American Folk Art Museum, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and other collections through a twenty-first century lens, historian Nalleli Guillen joins Curator of Folk Art Emelie Gevalt in a conversation on race, representation, and exclusion in 18th- and early 19th-century American art. A Q&A session will follow the conversation.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link for joining the program via computer or mobile device at the end of the email under \u2018Additional Information\u2019. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. Nalleli Guillen<\/strong> is Historian and Project Manager of the Revealing Long Island History<\/a><\/em> project at the Brooklyn Historical Society, a cataloging and research initiative funded by the Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation dedicated to making BHS\u2019s collection of Brooklyn and Long Island artifacts digitally available to the public. Nalleli received her Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization in May 2018 and holds an M.A. in American Material Culture, both from the University of Delaware. She is a specialist in nineteenth-century America with a particular interest in visual and material culture and their intersection with race and ethnicity. Her artifact research at BHS has been focused on uncovering the hidden histories of Brooklyn\u2019s historically underrepresented communities. A case study examining an example of Revolutionary era portraiture and slavery in Brooklyn will soon be published in the journal Winterthur Portfolio<\/em>, in an upcoming special issue on enslavement and material culture.<\/p>\n Emelie Gevalt<\/strong> is Curator of Folk Art at the American Folk Art Museum, where she recently curated Signature Styles: Friendship, Album, and Fundraising Quilts<\/a><\/em>, as part of a series of quilts exhibitions at the museum\u2019s location in Long Island City. In addition to her curatorial work, Gevalt is pursuing her doctorate in American art history at the University of Delaware, where her scholarship has been supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curatorial Track Ph.D. Fellowship. Often looking at earlier material through the lens of twentieth-century histories of collecting and collective memory, her work encompasses research interests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American portraiture, painted furniture, the Colonial Revival movement, and African American material culture and representation. Gevalt received her B.A. in art history and theater studies from Yale University and her M.A. from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Her Winterthur thesis, on the topic of early eighteenth-century painted chests from Taunton, Massachusetts, was recently published in the Chipstone Foundation\u2019s American Furniture.<\/em> Her research has been supported in part by grants from the Craft Research Fund and the Decorative Arts Trust. She has previously held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Christie\u2019s, New York.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Image: The Residence of David Twining 1785<\/em>; Edward Hicks (1780\u20131849); 1846; Oil on canvas, in original wood frame with paint and gold leaf; 26 1\/8 \u00d7 29 3\/4″; Gift of Ralph Esmerian; 2005.8.13; Photo: John Bigelow Taylor.<\/p>\n \n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/471181165","day":"20","month":"Oct","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-figuring-absence\/"},"14":{"ID":25659,"post_type":"programs","title":"Perspectivas Virtuales: Perspectivas Estadounidenses","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-09-25 14:19:57","name":"perspectivas-virtuales-perspectivas-estadounidenses","parent":0,"modified":"2020-11-30 22:48:26","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":25660,"id":25660,"title":"p236.tif","filename":"2000.17.1.jpg","filesize":5019471,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2000.17.1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/perspectivas-virtuales-perspectivas-estadounidenses\/p236-tif\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"p236.tif","name":"p236-tif","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25659,"date":"2020-09-25 14:17:00","modified":"2020-09-25 14:17:00","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2847,"height":1944,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2000.17.1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2000.17.1-300x205.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":205,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2000.17.1-768x524.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":524,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2000.17.1.jpg","large-width":2847,"large-height":1944,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2000.17.1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1049,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2000.17.1.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1398}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2000.17.1.jpg","headline":"Perspectivas Virtuales: Perspectivas Estadounidenses","di_date":"2020-10-14","excerpt":" Acomp\u00e1\u00f1enos a un recorrido interactivo en espa\u00f1ol de la exhibici\u00f3n actual\u00a0<\/span>Perspectivas estadounidenses: Historias de la colecci\u00f3n del Museo de Arte Folcl\u00f3rico Estadounidense<\/a><\/span><\/i>\u00a0con Chris S\u00e1nchez, educador del museo.<\/span><\/p>\n Watch a recording of this program online\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","start_time":"6:00 pm","end_time":"7:00 pm","admission":"Virtual, gratis con la inscripci\u00f3n","main_content":" Acomp\u00e1\u00f1enos a un recorrido en espa\u00f1ol de la actual exhibici\u00f3n\u00a0Perspectivas estadounidenses: Historias de la colecci\u00f3n del Museo de Arte Folcl\u00f3rico Estadounidense<\/a><\/em>\u00a0con Chris S\u00e1nchez, educador del museo. Aprenda sobre las muchas historias inspiradoras de diversos artistas y obras de arte presentes en la exhibici\u00f3n, y comparta sus opiniones en este recorrido interactivo.<\/p>\n El espacio es limitado y es requerido inscribirse con antelaci\u00f3n para este programa gratuito.<\/p>\n Luego de inscribirse, recibir\u00e1 una confirmaci\u00f3n por correo electr\u00f3nico con un enlace de Zoom para unirse al programa a trav\u00e9s de una computadora o dispositivo m\u00f3vil. Esta informaci\u00f3n estar\u00e1 el final del correo electr\u00f3nico, donde dice \u201cInformaci\u00f3n Adicional\u201d. Si tiene alguna pregunta, por favor env\u00ede un correo electr\u00f3nico a\u00a0publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Aprenda a descargar<\/a>\u00a0la m\u00e1s reciente versi\u00f3n de Zoom en su computadora o dispositivo m\u00f3vil antes de unirse al programa.<\/p>\n Imagen: Felipe Benito Archuleta (1910\u20131991)\u00a0Tiger<\/em>,\u00a0Tesuque, Nuevo M\u00e9xico, Estados Unidos,\u00a01977,\u00a0Pintura y gesso sobre \u00e1lamo de Virginia con paja, 32 1\/2 \u00d7 71 \u00d7 17″, Regalo de George H. Meyer, 2000.17.1, Fotograf\u00eda tomada por Paul Primeau.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/483124075","day":"14","month":"Oct","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/perspectivas-virtuales-perspectivas-estadounidenses\/"},"16":{"ID":25568,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: American Perspectives","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-09-08 20:54:57","name":"virtual-insights-american-perspectives","parent":0,"modified":"2020-10-30 20:10:40","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":25569,"id":25569,"title":"Virtual Insights_ American Perspectives Banner 2","filename":"Virtual-Insights_-American-Perspectives-Banner-2.jpg","filesize":1704560,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-American-Perspectives-Banner-2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-american-perspectives\/virtual-insights_-american-perspectives-banner-2\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"virtual-insights_-american-perspectives-banner-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25568,"date":"2020-09-08 20:50:31","modified":"2020-09-08 20:50:31","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2437,"height":1200,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-American-Perspectives-Banner-2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-American-Perspectives-Banner-2-300x148.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":148,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-American-Perspectives-Banner-2-768x378.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":378,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-American-Perspectives-Banner-2.jpg","large-width":2437,"large-height":1200,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-American-Perspectives-Banner-2.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":756,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-American-Perspectives-Banner-2.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1008}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Insights_-American-Perspectives-Banner-2.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: American Perspectives with Stacy C. Hollander","di_date":"2020-10-07","excerpt":" Join us for a virtual tour of\u00a0American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection<\/i>\u00a0led by exhibition curator Stacy C. Hollander.<\/p>\n Watch a recording of this program online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:00 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Explore current exhibition American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection<\/a><\/em> in a virtual tour with exhibition curator Stacy C. Hollander. Discover the many inspiring stories of diverse artists and artworks featured in the exhibition from Marino Auriti\u2019s Encyclopedic Palace<\/em> and Calvin and Ruby Black\u2019s Possum Trot Figures<\/em> to Clara Leon\u2019s Crazy Quilt<\/em> and Jean-Marcel St. Jacques\u2019s \u201cwooden quilt.\u201d<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link for joining the program via computer or mobile device at the end of the email under \u2018Additional Information\u2019. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. Learn how to download<\/a> the latest version of Zoom to your computer or mobile device prior to joining the program.<\/p>\n Stacy C. Hollander<\/strong> is an award-winning curator and writer and an authority on American self-taught art. She is the former Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Chief Curator, and Director of Exhibitions at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. During her thirty-year tenure she organized nearly fifty original exhibitions for the museum including The Seduction of Light: Mark Rothko<\/em> | Ammi Phillip: Compositions in Pink, Green, and Red (2008); Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America<\/em> (2016); War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics<\/em> (2017); and Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock<\/em> (2018). Her many publications as author and coauthor include Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection<\/em> (2016); Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum<\/em> (2014); The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (<\/em>2001); and Harry Lieberman: A Journey of Remembrance<\/em> (1991), among others. Hollander has also published on a wide range of folk art topics in magazines, scholarly journals, catalogs, and encyclopedias, and has lectured in the United States and abroad. Hollander received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her MA in American Folk Art Studies from New York University.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Images (Left to Right): Mother Sister May Have Sat in That Chair When She Lived in This House Before Me<\/em>; Jean-Marcel St. Jacques (b. 1972); New Orleans, Louisiana, United States; 2014; Wood, nails, and antique hardware on a plywood backing; 84 \u00d7 96″; Jean-Marcel St. Jacques, LLC; 2014.18.2; Photo: American Folk Art Museum; Possum Trot Figure: Helen<\/em>; Calvin Black (1903\u20131972) and Ruby Black (1915\u20131980); Yermo, San Bernadino County, California; 1953\u20131969; Paint on redwood and pine with fabric and tin; 46 1\/2 \u00d7 14 \u00d7 14″; Gift of Elizabeth Ross Johnson; 1985.35.3; Photo by Gavin Ashworth; Encyclopedic Palace\/Palazzo Enciclopedico\/Palacio Enciclopedico\/Palais Encyclop\u00e9dique or Monumento Nazionale. Progetto Enciclopedico Palazzo (U.S. patent no. 179,277<\/em>); Marino Auriti (1891\u20131980); Kennett Square<\/em>, Pennsylvania, United States; c. 1950s; Wood, plastic, glass, metal, hair combs, and model kit parts; 11 \u00d7 7 \u00d7 7′; Gift of Colette Auriti Firmani in memory of Marino Auriti; 2002.35.1; Photographer unidentified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n .\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/473605558","day":"07","month":"Oct","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-american-perspectives\/"},"20":{"ID":25474,"post_type":"programs","title":"Digital Drink + Draw: Narrative and Text","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-08-27 16:26:53","name":"digital-drink-narrative-and-text","parent":0,"modified":"2020-09-16 17:33:24","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":25475,"id":25475,"title":"House of Worship","filename":"Sister-Gertrude-Morgan.jpg","filesize":874590,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sister-Gertrude-Morgan.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/digital-drink-narrative-and-text\/house-of-worship\/","alt":"","author":"20","description":"","caption":"Tempera, pencil, and ballpoint pen on board with brown paper painting by Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900\u20131980), Late twentieth century","name":"house-of-worship","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25474,"date":"2020-08-27 16:27:30","modified":"2020-08-27 16:27:30","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1200,"height":1864,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sister-Gertrude-Morgan-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sister-Gertrude-Morgan-193x300.jpg","medium-width":193,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sister-Gertrude-Morgan-768x1193.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":1193,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sister-Gertrude-Morgan.jpg","large-width":1200,"large-height":1864,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sister-Gertrude-Morgan.jpg","1536x1536-width":989,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sister-Gertrude-Morgan.jpg","2048x2048-width":1200,"2048x2048-height":1864}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sister-Gertrude-Morgan.jpg","headline":"Digital Drink + Draw: Narrative and Text","di_date":"2020-09-24","excerpt":" Unwind and find inspiration in self-taught art! Drink, draw, and connect virtually with AFAM Education staff and other creatives.<\/p>\n **Registration\u00a0for\u00a0this program is now at capacity. To join the\u00a0waitlist, please submit your name and email through the Eventbrite ticket page.**<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:00 pm","end_time":"7:30 pm","performer_or_host":"Natalie Beall","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Unwind and find inspiration in self-taught art! Drink, draw, and connect virtually with AFAM Education staff and other creatives.<\/p>\n How do self-taught artists use letters, words, and text to give texture, form, and narrative to their artworks? In this session, AFAM educator and artist Natalie Beall will explore the inventive relationships between language and image in the works of Sister Gertrude Morgan, Charles Steffen, and others. Prompts for looking and drawing will be shared throughout the evening, and participants will be invited to share their work.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link for joining the program via computer or mobile device at the end of the email under \u2018Additional Information\u2019. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. **Registration\u00a0for\u00a0this program is now at capacity. To join the\u00a0waitlist, please submit your name and email through the Eventbrite ticket page.**<\/p>\n This program will be held over Zoom<\/a>. Learn how to download<\/a> the latest version of Zoom to your computer or mobile device prior to joining the program.<\/p>\n Image: House of Worship<\/em>, Sister Gertrude Morgan <\/a>(1900\u20131980); New Orleans, Louisiana, United States; Late twentieth century; Tempera on board with brown paper, pencil, and ball point pen; 19 \u00d7 12″; Gift of Kristina Johnson, Esq.; 2008.12.1. Photo by Gavin Ashworth.<\/p>\n Remote public programs are made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WAITLIST","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/digital-drink-draw-narrative-and-text-tickets-118013037171","day":"24","month":"Sep","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/digital-drink-narrative-and-text\/"},"22":{"ID":25237,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Judith Scott","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-07-16 21:05:55","name":"virtual-insights-judith-scott","parent":0,"modified":"2020-10-19 14:22:33","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":25195,"id":25195,"title":"2002.21.2","filename":"2002.21.2.jpg","filesize":486794,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2002.21.2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/news\/in-profile-judith-scott\/2002-21-2\/","alt":"","author":"20","description":"","caption":"","name":"2002-21-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":24423,"date":"2020-07-02 01:59:32","modified":"2020-07-02 01:59:32","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2400,"height":1184,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2002.21.2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2002.21.2-300x148.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":148,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2002.21.2-768x379.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":379,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2002.21.2.jpg","large-width":2400,"large-height":1184,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2002.21.2.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":758,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2002.21.2.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1010}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2002.21.2.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: Judith Scott ","di_date":"2020-09-16","excerpt":" Join us for a conversation on Judith Scott\u2019s groundbreaking life and work with Senior Curator Val\u00e9rie Rousseau and Tom di Maria, Director of External Relations at Creative Growth Art Center.<\/p>\n Watch a\u00a0recording\u00a0of this program\u00a0online\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:15 pm","admission":"Free","main_content":" Wrapped, wound, and interwoven, Judith Scott\u2019s cocoon-like sculptures offer viewers a powerful experience of intimacy, enhanced by the enigma of the artist’s intentions. Born deaf and mute with Down syndrome, Scott began creating at age forty-three, after being introduced to the Oakland-based, non-profit Creative Growth Art Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n Reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act this year, Senior Curator Val\u00e9rie Rousseau and Tom di Maria, Director of External Relations at Creative Growth Art Center<\/a>, will explore Scott\u2019s groundbreaking life and work, taking a closer look at her complex creative process and examining questions of interpretation and exhibition. This program is organized in conjunction with the current exhibition American<\/em> Perspectives<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with Zoom instructions. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. 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<\/em> on performance art (2015), Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet<\/em> (2015), and shows on Paa Joe (2019), William Van Genk (2014), Bill Traylor (2013), art brut photography (2019, 2021), and self-taught literature (2018). Rousseau holds a PhD in art history from Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al and an MA in anthropology from \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She has authored various essays on arts emerging outside the art mainstream, from an international perspective, notably Visionary Architectures<\/em> (The Alternative Guide to the Universe, Hayward Gallery, 2013), Revealing Art Brut<\/em> (Culture & Mus\u00e9es, 2010), and Vestiges de l\u2019indiscipline<\/em> (Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2007).<\/p>\n Tom di Maria<\/strong> was hired as Director of Creative Growth Art Center in January 2000. Since then, he has developed partnerships with museums, galleries and international design companies to help bring Creative Growth’s artists with disabilities fully into the contemporary art world. He speaks around the world about the Center\u2019s major artists and their relationship to both Outsider Art and contemporary culture.\u00a0 Prior to this position, he served as Assistant Director of the Berkeley Art Museum\/Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley, and Executive Director of the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. He received his MFA in photography from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, in Baltimore, and a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has received filmmaking awards from the Sundance Film Festival and other festivals for his experimental filmmaking. In 2019, he received the Visionary Award from the American Folk Art Museum in New York.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Image: Judith Scott (1943\u20132005); Untitled<\/em>;\u00a01988\u20131989;\u00a0Oakland, California, United States;\u00a0yarn and twine with unknown armature; 8 \u00d7 36 \u00d7 25 in.; gift of Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California, 2002.21.2; photo by Gavin\u00a0Ashworth<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/459403485","day":"16","month":"Sep","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-judith-scott\/"},"27":{"ID":25355,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Bisa Butler in Conversation with Dr. Myrah Brown Green Copy","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-08-12 18:30:55","name":"virtual-insights-bisa-butler-in-conversation-with-dr-myrah-brown-green-copy","parent":0,"modified":"2020-10-19 14:23:20","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":25238,"id":25238,"title":"The Warmth of Other Sons (detail 2)","filename":"The-Warmth-of-Other-Sons-detail-2.jpeg","filesize":675084,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The-Warmth-of-Other-Sons-detail-2.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-judith-scott\/the-warmth-of-other-sons-detail-2\/","alt":"","author":"20","description":"","caption":"","name":"the-warmth-of-other-sons-detail-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25237,"date":"2020-07-16 21:04:58","modified":"2020-07-16 21:04:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1440,"height":1143,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The-Warmth-of-Other-Sons-detail-2-150x150.jpeg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The-Warmth-of-Other-Sons-detail-2-300x238.jpeg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":238,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The-Warmth-of-Other-Sons-detail-2-768x610.jpeg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":610,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The-Warmth-of-Other-Sons-detail-2.jpeg","large-width":1440,"large-height":1143,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The-Warmth-of-Other-Sons-detail-2.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1440,"1536x1536-height":1143,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The-Warmth-of-Other-Sons-detail-2.jpeg","2048x2048-width":1440,"2048x2048-height":1143}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The-Warmth-of-Other-Sons-detail-2.jpeg","headline":"Virtual Insights: Bisa Butler in Conversation with Dr. Myrah Brown Green","di_date":"2020-08-06","excerpt":" Join us for a conversation with artist Bisa Butler and art historian Dr. Myrah Brown Green about their art and activism, the exchange of generational memory, and their responses to selected works from the\u00a0 museum\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n Watch a\u00a0recording\u00a0of this program online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:00 pm","end_time":"7:30 pm","admission":"Free","main_content":" How do artists reinterpret the past for new meaning in the present?<\/p>\n Contemporary artist Bisa Butler<\/a> creates vivid, colorful quilted portraits that center and celebrate African American life and culture. Drawing imagery from found photographs and titles from films, literature, and other sources, Butler mines the archive to critique exclusionary histories and create new visions for the future. Art historian, independent curator, and author Dr. Myrah Brown Green<\/a> documents the contributions of African American visual artists, including quilters, and creates quilts that draw on African American and indigenous fiber art traditions. Join us for a conversation about their art and activism, the exchange of generational memory, and their responses to selected works from the museum\u2019s permanent collection.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. About Attending Virtual Programs:<\/p>\n This program will be held over Zoom<\/a>. Please note that after registering for the program, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions and the Zoom link for joining the program via computer or mobile device at the end of the email under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d Learn how<\/a> to download the latest version of Zoom to your computer or mobile device prior to joining the program.<\/p>\n Watch a\u00a0recording\u00a0of this program online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n About the Speakers:<\/p>\n Bisa Butler<\/a> was born and raised in New Jersey, the daughter of educators. A formally trained artist, Bisa earned her BFA from Howard University and MAT from Montclair State University. After teaching for 13 years, Bisa transitioned to working as a full time artist, and is now represented by the Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem. Bisa has shown her art across the US and internationally and her work has been acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Nelson-Atkins Museum, The Kemper Museum of Art, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Newark Museum, The Toledo Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Bisa will have two solo museum shows in 2020; at the Katonah Museum of Art and at The Art Institute of Chicago. Her work will also be included in two important museum quilt exhibitions; at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and The Toledo Museum of Art.<\/p>\n Dr. Myrah Brown Green<\/a> is an art historian, author, arts consultant, lecturer and independent curator. Raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Myrah\u2019s love for arts began as a child while spending countless hours creating at the Community Art Center in the housing complex where she lived and frequent excursions to culturally rich art institutions. Dr. Myrah moved to Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute, later receiving a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus in world symbols. Dr. Myrah is also a professional quilt maker who has been quilting and teaching textile arts for over thirty years. Her quilts are in a number of prestigious collections including the Smithsonian\u2019s Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C. and Michigan State University. Over the past ten years, Dr. Myrah has devoted much of her time assisting artists of color document and archive their personal art-work and private collections. Her award-winning book, Brooklyn on My Mind: Black Artists from the WPA to the Present, was released in November of 2018.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Image: Bisa Butler, The Warmth of Other Sons<\/em>, 2020, (detail), Courtesy of the Claire Oliver Gallery.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/446973916","day":"06","month":"Aug","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-bisa-butler-in-conversation-with-dr-myrah-brown-green-copy\/"},"28":{"ID":25209,"post_type":"programs","title":"Digital Drink + Draw: Imagined Vistas 7\/23\/20","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-07-08 21:39:57","name":"digital-drink-draw-imagined-vistas-7-23-20","parent":0,"modified":"2020-07-27 21:49:09","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":25210,"id":25210,"title":"Yoakum460","filename":"Yoakum460.jpg","filesize":409827,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Yoakum460.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/digital-drink-draw-imagined-vistas-7-23-20\/yoakum460\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"yoakum460","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25209,"date":"2020-07-08 21:37:58","modified":"2020-07-08 21:37:58","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\/2020\/07\/Yoakum460-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Yoakum460-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Yoakum460-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Yoakum460.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Yoakum460.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Yoakum460.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Yoakum460.jpg","headline":"Digital Drink + Draw: Imagined Vistas","di_date":"2020-07-23","excerpt":" Unwind and find inspiration in self-taught art! Drink, draw, and connect virtually with AFAM Education staff and other creatives.<\/p>\n","start_time":"5:00 pm","end_time":"6:30 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Leaves, trees, and wild animals are just some aspects of the natural world reimagined by self-taught artists who have drawn inspiration from the land and environment. In this session, AFAM educator and artist Natalie Beall will explore the creative practices of Ronald Lockett, Joseph Yoakum, and others. Prompts for looking and drawing will be shared throughout the evening, and participants will be invited to share their work.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with Zoom instructions. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. About Attending Virtual Programs:<\/p>\n This program will be held over\u00a0Zoom<\/a>. Please note that after registering for the program, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for joining the\u00a0program via computer or mobile device at the end of the email under \u2018Additional Information\u2019.<\/p>\n Learn how<\/a>\u00a0to download the latest version of Zoom to your computer or mobile device\u00a0prior to joining the program.<\/p>\n Image: Mt. Trinity of Clear Water<\/em>; Joseph Yoakum<\/a> (1890\u20131972); Chicago, Illinois; n.d.; Ballpoint, pencil, colored pencil on paper; 12 \u00d7 18″; Blanchard-Hill Collection, gift of M. Anne Hill and Edward V. Blanchard, Jr.; 1998.10.66. Photo by Gavin Ashworth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"REGISTER","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/digital-drink-draw-imagined-vistas-tickets-112823351682","day":"23","month":"Jul","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/digital-drink-draw-imagined-vistas-7-23-20\/"},"30":{"ID":25022,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Quilts Revisited 7\/14\/20","content":"Watch a\u00a0recording\u00a0of this program online here","status":"publish","date":"2020-06-10 22:01:33","name":"virtual-insights-quilts-revisited-7-14-20","parent":0,"modified":"2020-10-19 14:20:31","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":25025,"id":25025,"title":"1979.7.1x1260","filename":"1979.7.1x1260.jpg","filesize":180329,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1979.7.1x1260.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-quilts-revisited-7-14-20\/1979-7-1x1260\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"1979-7-1x1260","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25022,"date":"2020-06-10 22:13:33","modified":"2020-06-10 22:13:33","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\/2020\/06\/1979.7.1x1260-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1979.7.1x1260-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1979.7.1x1260-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1979.7.1x1260.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1979.7.1x1260.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1979.7.1x1260.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Quilt-Crop.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: Quilts Revisited","di_date":"2020-07-14","excerpt":" Join us for a conversation on quilts and curatorial practice with Curator of Folk Art Emelie Gevalt and acclaimed quilt scholar and curator Elizabeth V. Warren.<\/p>\n Watch a\u00a0recording\u00a0of this program online here.<\/a><\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:00 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Join us for a conversation on quilts and curatorial practice with Curator of Folk Art Emelie Gevalt and acclaimed quilt scholar and curator Elizabeth V. Warren. From appliqu\u00e9 and pieced to revival and political quilts, this discussion will introduce notable works from the museum\u2019s collection, as well as quilting techniques and traditions. Hear more about how quilts have served as powerful visual records of individual and communal responses to personal experiences and current events.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with Zoom instructions. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. Emelie Gevalt<\/strong> is Curator of Folk Art at the American Folk Art Museum, where she recently curated Signature Styles: Friendship, Album, and Fundraising Quilts<\/a><\/em>, as part of a series of quilts exhibitions at the museum\u2019s location in Long Island City. In addition to her curatorial work, Gevalt is pursuing her doctorate in American art history at the University of Delaware, where her scholarship has been supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curatorial Track PhD Fellowship. Often looking at earlier material through the lens of twentieth-century histories of collecting and collective memory, her work encompasses research interests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American portraiture, painted furniture, the Colonial Revival movement, and African American material culture and representation. Gevalt received her BA in art history and theater studies from Yale University and her MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Her Winterthur thesis, on the topic of early eighteenth-century painted chests from Taunton, Massachusetts, was recently published in the Chipstone Foundation\u2019s American Furniture. Her research has been supported in part by grants from the Craft Research Fund and the Decorative Arts Trust. She has previously held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Christie\u2019s, New York.<\/p>\n Elizabeth V. Warren<\/strong> has devoted nearly 40 years to writing about, and curating exhibitions of folk art, with a special focus on quilts. Warren served as American Folk Art Museum Curator from 1984 to 1991, and since then has been a consulting and guest curator. She has organized a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions for the museum, many of which have been accompanied by books, including Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts<\/em> (2011) and The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball<\/em> (2003-2004), and most recently Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art<\/em> (2019). In 2007, she was elected to the museum\u2019s Board of Trustees, and was elected President in 2019. Warren also serves on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she was a journalist at House Beautiful covering the home furnishings market as well as art and antiques. While working at House Beautiful she received a Masters of Arts from New York University in folk art studies.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Image: Bird of Paradise Quilt Top<\/em>; Artist unidentified; Vicinity of Albany, New York, United States; 1858\u20131863; Cotton, wool, and silk with ink and silk embroidery; 84 1\/2 \u00d7 69 \u215d\u201d; Collection American Folk Art Museum, gift of the Trustees of the American Folk Art Museum; 1979.7.1; photo by Gavin Ashworth.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/438575079","day":"14","month":"Jul","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-quilts-revisited-7-14-20\/"},"32":{"ID":25098,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: A Reading from Foodie Faces 7\/9\/20","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-06-22 13:12:12","name":"virtual-insights-a-reading-from-foodie-faces-7-9-20","parent":0,"modified":"2020-10-19 14:21:40","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":25104,"id":25104,"title":"foodie facesx1260","filename":"foodie-facesx1260.jpg","filesize":167794,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/foodie-facesx1260.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-a-reading-from-foodie-faces-7-9-20\/foodie-facesx1260\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"foodie-facesx1260","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25098,"date":"2020-06-22 13:21:20","modified":"2020-06-22 13:21:20","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\/2020\/06\/foodie-facesx1260-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/foodie-facesx1260-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/foodie-facesx1260-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/foodie-facesx1260.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/foodie-facesx1260.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/foodie-facesx1260.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Foodie-Faces-Crop.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: A Reading from Foodie Faces","di_date":"2020-07-09","excerpt":" Watch artist and authors Bill and Claire Wurtzel read from their new book Foodie Faces, and find inspiration for making art from food at home.<\/p>\n Watch a\u00a0recording\u00a0of this program online here.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","start_time":"11:00 am","end_time":"11:15 am","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Watch artist and authors Bill and Claire Wurtzel<\/a> read from their new book Foodie Faces<\/em>, which helps children understand and name their feelings. Bill and Claire will share ways for families to talk about feelings with children, and brief instructions for making art from food at home following the reading. Families and all ages welcome. Please note: this program was pre-recorded so that you can watch it on Facebook<\/a>, Youtube<\/a> or Vimeo<\/a> when it is most convenient for your family.<\/p>\n Kirkus<\/em>: \u201cReaders might find themselves transfixed in wonder at the fantastical creations. Young readers will enjoy this journey through food and feelings\u2026a visually delightful experience.\u201d<\/p>\n Tune in on Thursday July 9 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and anytime afterwards to watch this reading on\u00a0 Facebook<\/a>, Youtube<\/a> or Vimeo<\/a>. Registration is not required, but you are welcome to make a donation to support ongoing public programs here<\/a> and donations will be accepted until 4:00 pm. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. Bill Wurtzel<\/strong> creates food art that expresses emotions. He was an award-winning advertising creative director and he is a renowned jazz guitarist who has hosted Jazz Wednesdays at the American Folk Art Museum for 11 years. Bill is also a board member of the Jazz Foundation of America<\/a>. Together, Bill and Claire have authored Funny Food, Funny Food Made Easy, Foodie Faces <\/em>and Meshuggah Food Faces<\/em> (forthcoming October 2020).<\/p>\n Claire Wurtzel<\/strong> is an educator who helps teachers work effectively with students who struggle with learning and\/or behavior challenges. Claire is the co-educational director of Hidden Sparks<\/a>, and also facilitates workshops for administrators, parents, psychologists, librarians, and museum educators. Previously, she was on the faculty of the American Museum of Natural History, and chaired the Department of Special Education at Bank Street Graduate School.<\/p>\n Order your copy of one of Bill and Claire\u2019s books from the museum shop online here<\/a>. Questions about purchasing the book? Email giftshop@folkartmuseum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Image by Bill Wurzel.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/436554957","day":"09","month":"Jul","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-a-reading-from-foodie-faces-7-9-20\/"},"33":{"ID":25015,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Archiving the Present 6\/30\/20","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-06-09 15:35:52","name":"virtual-insights-archiving-the-present-6-30-20","parent":0,"modified":"2020-10-19 14:19:37","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":25018,"id":25018,"title":"Archival Projectx1260","filename":"Archival-Projectx1260.jpg","filesize":345912,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Archival-Projectx1260.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-archiving-the-present-6-30-20\/archival-projectx1260\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"archival-projectx1260","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":25015,"date":"2020-06-09 15:38:33","modified":"2020-06-09 15:38:33","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\/2020\/06\/Archival-Projectx1260-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Archival-Projectx1260-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Archival-Projectx1260-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Archival-Projectx1260.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Archival-Projectx1260.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Archival-Projectx1260.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Archiving-the-Present.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: Archiving the Present","di_date":"2020-06-30","excerpt":" Join Natalie Milbrodt, Director of the Queens Memory Project, and Regina Carra, Archivist at the American Folk Art Museum, for a conversation on archiving stories of resilience, hope, mutual aid, and loss amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0Special guest, artist\u00a0Alexis Ward will join the conversation to discuss her artistic practice.<\/p>\n Watch a recording of this program online\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:00 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Join Natalie Milbrodt, Director of the Queens Memory Project, in conversation with Regina Carra, Rapaport Archivist at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), on archiving stories of resilience, hope, mutual aid, and loss amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0Special guest, artist\u00a0Alexis Ward will join the conversation to discuss her artistic practice.<\/p>\n Learn how the Queens Memory Project and AFAM Archives quickly shifted their collecting practices to capture a record of the impacts of the pandemic on the communities they serve. This program will feature artworks and responses archived so far, information about how to contribute in the future, and a discussion of how \u201carchiving the present\u201d is part of larger, ongoing archival efforts at the Queens Memory Project and AFAM.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with Zoom instructions. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum. This program is organized in partnership with the Queens Memory Project<\/a>, an ongoing program supported by Queens Library and Queens College, CUNY, designed to collect stories, images and other evidence of life in the borough of Queens. The Queens Memory Project also provides training and materials for anyone wishing to contribute interviews, photographs, or other records of their neighborhoods, families and communities. The Queens Memory Project empowers residents from diverse backgrounds to document the personal histories that together tell a more complete story of life in the borough.<\/p>\n Natalie Milbrodt<\/strong> is an information professional and content developer with 20 years of experience working in small business, academic, cultural heritage and library settings. She currently manages the Metadata Services Division within the Queens Public Library’s Technical Services Department in New York City. In this role, she oversees archival digitization and the creation and management of metadata for the library’s physical and digital collections. This includes the preservation of local history on behalf of the library’s community archiving initiative, the Queens Memory Project. Milbrodt serves on the Oral History Association\u2019s Metadata Task Force and as an advisory board member for New York State Historical Records, Global Grand Central, and Wikitongues.<\/p>\n Regina Carra<\/strong> is the Rapaport Archivist at the American Folk Art Museum. She manages over 700 linear feet of archival records, including the Museum’s institutional records and distinctive special collections, which exemplify nearly 250 years of the history and development of folk art, self-taught art, and art brut. She is an active member of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference and is a soon-to-be member of the ArchivesSpace User Advisory Council. Regina also volunteers her background in oral history to help her colleagues at the Queens Memory Project archive the history of Queens, the borough where she currently resides.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Images from the AFAM from Home Archive by Elizabeth Gronke and from the Queens Memory COVID-19 Project by Alexis Ward.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/436884460","day":"30","month":"Jun","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-archiving-the-present-6-30-20\/"},"34":{"ID":24916,"post_type":"programs","title":"Digital Drink + Draw: Pattern and Repetition 6\/25\/20","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-05-27 15:43:18","name":"digital-drink-draw-pattern-and-repetition-6-25-20","parent":0,"modified":"2020-06-23 13:51:55","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":24917,"id":24917,"title":"2007.14.1-1260","filename":"2007.14.1-1260.jpg","filesize":187467,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2007.14.1-1260.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/digital-drink-draw-pattern-and-repetition-6-25-20\/2007-14-1-1260\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"2007-14-1-1260","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":24916,"date":"2020-05-27 15:42:36","modified":"2020-05-27 15:42:36","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\/2020\/05\/2007.14.1-1260-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2007.14.1-1260-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2007.14.1-1260-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2007.14.1-1260.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2007.14.1-1260.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2007.14.1-1260.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-27-at-12.02.57-PM.jpg","headline":"Digital Drink + Draw: Pattern and Repetition","di_date":"2020-06-25","excerpt":" Unwind and find inspiration in self-taught art! Drink, draw, and connect virtually with AFAM Education staff and other creatives.<\/p>\n **Registration for this program is now at capacity. To join the waitlist, please submit your name and email through the Eventbrite ticket page. A recording of the tour will also be shared on our website.**<\/p>\n","start_time":"5:00 pm","end_time":"6:30 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Unwind and find inspiration in self-taught art! Drink, draw, and connect virtually with AFAM Education staff and other creatives.<\/p>\n Lose yourself in the undulating lines, stylized natural forms, and complex geometry of self-taught artists who incorporate pattern and repetition into their work. In this session, AFAM educator and artist Natalie Beall will share works by artists who have invented their own visual language with symmetry and recurring motifs. Prompts for looking and drawing will be shared throughout the evening, and participants will be invited to share their work.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with Zoom instructions. Please email\u00a0publicprograms@ **Registration for this program is now at capacity. To join the waitlist, please submit your name and email through the Eventbrite ticket page. A recording of the tour will also be shared on our website.**<\/p>\n Image:<\/strong> Two Snakes<\/em>, Scottie Wilson<\/a> (1888\u20131972); Canada or United Kingdom; Mid- to late twentieth century; Ink on paper; 21 1\/2 \u00d7 14\u201d; Collection American Folk Art Museum, Gift of Sam and Betsey Farber; 2007.14.1. Photo by Charles Bechtold.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WAITLIST","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/digital-drink-draw-pattern-and-repetition-tickets-106787919542","day":"25","month":"Jun","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/digital-drink-draw-pattern-and-repetition-6-25-20\/"},"38":{"ID":24801,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: A Reading from Fables across Time 6\/5\/20","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-05-11 17:19:31","name":"virtual-insights-a-reading-from-fables-across-time-6-5-20","parent":0,"modified":"2020-10-19 14:18:42","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":24802,"id":24802,"title":"Sabiha1260","filename":"Sabiha1260.jpg","filesize":370461,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Sabiha1260.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-a-reading-from-fables-across-time-6-5-20\/sabiha1260\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"sabiha1260","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":24801,"date":"2020-05-11 17:17:46","modified":"2020-05-11 17:17:46","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\/2020\/05\/Sabiha1260-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Sabiha1260-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Sabiha1260-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Sabiha1260.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Sabiha1260.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Sabiha1260.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Sabiha-Reading.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: A Reading from Fables across Time","di_date":"2020-06-05","excerpt":" Join us for a dual-language virtual reading by artist and author Sabiha Al Khemir of a story from her children’s book Fables across Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"11:00 am","end_time":"12:00 pm","main_content":" Listen and learn during our first virtual reading from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EDT! Artist and author Sabiha Al Khemir will read aloud, in both Arabic and English, a tale of the adventures of Kalila and Dimna\u2014two jackal brothers whose stories of resourcefulness, friendship, and wisdom have been passed down for centuries. These lively parables are adapted for contemporary audiences and illustrated in Dr. Al Khemir\u2019s book,\u00a0Fables across Time: Kalila and Dimna<\/em>. A guided art-making activity will follow the reading. Families and all ages welcome.<\/p>\n Watch a recording of the reading and hear\u00a0Dr. Al Khemir speak more about her creative process and the meaning these stories hold for her\u00a0online\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/b><\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with Zoom instructions. Please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/p>\n Sabiha Al Khemir<\/strong> is an artist, author, scholar, and an internationally recognized expert in Islamic art. She was born in Tunisia and received a degree in English Literature from the Ecole Normale Superieure, Tunis, her MA in Islamic Art and Archaeology from London University, her PhD from London University, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Al Khemir serves as a professor of art history and museum consultant. She has worked as a consultant and curator for a variety of institutions on numerous exhibitions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Dr. Al Khemir served as the Founding Director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha Qatar from 2006 to 2008, after previously serving as a consultant. She has written several cultural essays and two novels. In addition to Fables across Time: Kalila and Dimna<\/em>, she has also illustrated The Island of Animals<\/em> and numerous book covers.<\/p>\n Order your copy of Fables across Time: Kalila and Dimna<\/em> from the museum shop online here<\/a>. Books will ship when the museum reopens. Questions about purchasing the book? Email giftshop@folkartmuseum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Support for 2020 remote public programs is provided by Art Bridges and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Image: Illustration by Sabiha Al Khemir.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"REGISTER","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/virtual-insights-a-reading-from-fables-across-time-tickets-104796310586","day":"05","month":"Jun","year":"2020","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-a-reading-from-fables-across-time-6-5-20\/"},"39":{"ID":24725,"post_type":"programs","title":"Digital Drink + Draw: Fantasy and Alternate Realities 5\/28\/20","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2020-04-29 21:39:05","name":"digital-drink-draw-fantasy-and-alternate-realities-5-28-20","parent":0,"modified":"2020-06-15 17:26:34","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":24738,"id":24738,"title":"Drinkx460","filename":"Drinkx460.jpg","filesize":329092,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Drinkx460.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/digital-drink-draw-fantasy-and-alternate-realities-5-28-20\/drinkx460\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"drinkx460","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":24725,"date":"2020-04-30 14:33:32","modified":"2020-04-30 14:33:32","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\/2020\/04\/Drinkx460-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Drinkx460-300x110.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":110,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Drinkx460-768x280.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Drinkx460.jpg","large-width":1260,"large-height":460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Drinkx460.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":460,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Drinkx460.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":460}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Drink-Draw.jpg","headline":"Digital Drink + Draw: Fantasy and Alternate Realities","di_date":"2020-05-28","excerpt":" Unwind and find inspiration in self-taught art! Drink, draw, and connect virtually with AFAM Education staff and other creatives.<\/p>\n","start_time":"5:00 pm","end_time":"6:30 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":" Unwind and find inspiration in self-taught art! Drink, draw, and connect virtually with AFAM Education staff and other creatives. This session will explore how artists have invented their own strategies for representation, drawing from rich imaginary worlds to visualize fantastical alternate realities. AFAM educator and artist Natalie Beall will examine a range of artistic approaches\u2014from Ionel Talpazan\u2019s close encounters with UFOs to the theatrical and romantic worlds envisioned by Alo\u00efse Corbaz. Prompts for looking and drawing will be shared throughout the evening, and participants will be invited to share their work.<\/p>\n Space is limited and advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with Zoom instructions. Please email\u00a0publicprograms@folkartmuseum. Image: Untitled (double-sided)<\/em>;