{"25":{"ID":29855,"post_type":"programs","title":"In Dreams Awake","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2022-09-13 19:23:30","name":"in-dreams-awake","parent":0,"modified":"2022-11-09 16:22:21","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":29871,"id":29871,"title":"11:2 more cropped","filename":"112-more-cropped.png","filesize":20174777,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/112-more-cropped.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/in-dreams-awake\/112-more-cropped\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"112-more-cropped","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":29855,"date":"2022-09-14 20:42:14","modified":"2022-09-14 20:42:14","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":6912,"height":3456,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/112-more-cropped-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/112-more-cropped-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/112-more-cropped-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/112-more-cropped-6000x3000.png","large-width":6000,"large-height":3000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/112-more-cropped-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/112-more-cropped-2048x1024.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1024}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/112-more-cropped.png","headline":"In Dreams Awake","di_date":"2022-11-02","excerpt":"

Join artists Susan Bee, Jamea Richmond-Edwards and Kathy Ruttenberg for a critical conversation about Morris Hirsfield\u2019s visual imagination and fantasy, moderated by art critic <\/span>Isabella<\/span> Segalovich.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the recording of the program online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:00 pm","end_time":"7:15 pm","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

6:00-7:15 p.m. EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered<\/em> presents stylized paintings of landscapes, animals and female figures. Often nude, the portraits are disarming, turning women\u2019s bodies into fantastically flattened eroticized figures. This program will explore Hirshfield’s visual imagination while posing questions concerning his male gaze.<\/p>\n

Hosted and moderated by art critic Isabella Segalovich, the discussion will feature three women artists who all defy realism in their combination of bright colors, decorative motifs, mythology and popular culture. Painter Susan Bee produces mythological paintings where archetypes are used to render social and personal struggles. Sculptor Kathy Ruttenberg composes fairytale ceramic tableaux where female figures merge with animal and floral figures. Painter Jamea Richmond-Edwards offers parables of the present and the future with mystical versions of herself and others.<\/p>\n

These three unique practitioners will share exhibition highlights, with a focus on the painter\u2019s pleasurable fantasy. This program pays tribute to folk and self-taught modernisms while reevaluating the place and representation of women in the canon.<\/p>\n

The program is free, but space is limited. Click below for more information and to reserve your spot.<\/p>\n

Image Credits:<\/p>\n

Left: Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Where the Spooks Dwell, 2021, Ink, colored pencil, marker, acrylic, jewelry, rhinestones, glitter, fabric and mixed media collage on paper, 78 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the Artist.<\/p>\n

Center: Kathy Ruttenberg, Confessions of a Tree, 2009, Ceramic, 33.5 x 17.5 x 15.5 inches. Courtesy of the Artist.<\/p>\n

Right: Susan Bee, Naiad, 2019, oil and enamel on linen, 24 x 18 inches. Courtesy of the Artist.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/766942116","day":"02","month":"Nov","year":"2022","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/in-dreams-awake\/"},"29":{"ID":29736,"post_type":"programs","title":"In the Wilds of Brooklyn: Roz Chast and Ben Katchor in Conversation","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2022-08-18 19:08:14","name":"in-the-wilds-of-brooklyn-roz-chast-and-ben-katchor-in-conversation","parent":0,"modified":"2022-10-26 17:26:34","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":29737,"id":29737,"title":"10:13 banner","filename":"1013-banner.png","filesize":2397368,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1013-banner.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/in-the-wilds-of-brooklyn-roz-chast-and-ben-katchor-in-conversation\/1013-banner\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"1013-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":29736,"date":"2022-08-18 18:59:06","modified":"2022-08-18 18:59:06","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2100,"height":1050,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1013-banner-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1013-banner-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1013-banner-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1013-banner.png","large-width":2100,"large-height":1050,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1013-banner-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1013-banner-2048x1024.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1024}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1013-banner.png","headline":"In the Wilds of Brooklyn: Roz Chast and Ben Katchor in Conversation","di_date":"2022-10-13","excerpt":"

Join Roz Chast and Ben Katchor for an hour of stories highlighting the Jewish American fabric of Hirshfield’s paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch a recording of this program online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:00 pm","end_time":"7:15 pm","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

6:00-7.15 p.m. EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Newsweek<\/em> article published in 1943 characterized Morris Hirshfield as an old man who lived, \u201cway out in… the Wilds of Brooklyn.\u201d In this program, Ben Katchor and Roz Chast will take this primitivizing and elitist observation as a starting point to reflect on Hirshfield\u2019s story as a Jewish European immigrant who worked his way up the trade to become a tailor, then a successful business-owner, and later a celebrated self-taught painter in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n

A cartoonist at <\/span>The New Yorker<\/span><\/i>, Chast translates the mundane in semi-confessional \u201cclunky\u201d comics, confronting New Yorkers\u2019 anxieties with both humor and compassion. In his signature black-and-white pen-and-wash drawings, the graphic-novelist Katchor revives bygone architecture, activities and characters to offer a historical, yet multidimensional, portrait of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both natives of Brooklyn, these two extraordinary storytellers will take us into an exquisite journey where everyday urban experience is turned into insightful art. This program will chronicle for us moments, places and themes that compose New York City\u2019s fabric and identity, while contributing to a better understanding of Hirshfield\u2019s life and work as a Brooklyn-based Jewish artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Space is limited; advance registration is required. Please RSVP to reserve your spot here<\/a>, and consider making a donation to support ongoing virtual programming. <\/span><\/p>\n

Instructions for joining with a Zoom link and password will be provided by email upon registration confirmation under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d Closed captioning will be provided in English. For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roz Chast<\/strong> is an acclaimed cartoonist who has published hundreds of pieces in The New Yorker for almost four decades. Author of the award-winning, best-selling memoir, <\/span>Can\u2019t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?<\/span><\/i> (Bloomsbury, 2014), Chast was the subject of the Museum of the City of New York’s 2016 exhibition, <\/span>Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs<\/span><\/i>. She has written and illustrated many children\u2019s books, including a collaboration with Steve Martin on the children\u2019s book <\/span>The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z<\/span><\/i>!, contributed to numerous humor collections, and lectured widely.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben Katchor<\/strong> is an American cartoonist and illustrator. Along with his long-running comic-strip work\u2014<\/span>Julius Knipl, Real-Estate Photographer, The Cardboard Valise, Hotel & Farm, The Jew of New York<\/span><\/i>, and, most recently, <\/span>The Dairy Restaurant <\/span><\/i>\u2014Katchor has also collaborated with musician Mark Mulcahy on a number of works for musical theatre. These works include <\/span>The Rosenbach Company<\/span><\/i> (a tragi-comedy about the life and times of Abe Rosenbach, the preeminent rare-book dealer of the 20th century); <\/span>The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island<\/span><\/i>, or, <\/span>The Friends of Dr. Rushower<\/span><\/i>, an absurdist romance about the chemical emissions and addictive soft-drinks of a ruined tropical factory-island; <\/span>A Checkroom Romance<\/span><\/i>, about the culture and architecture of coat-checkrooms; and <\/span>Up From the Stack<\/span><\/i>s, about a page working the stacks of the New York Public Library in 1975. His TED Talk is titled <\/span>Comics of Bygone New York<\/span><\/i>. He is an Associate Professor at Parsons School of Design, The New School.<\/span><\/p>\n

Images:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Left: Roz Chast, illustration from <\/span>Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York<\/span><\/i> (Bloomsbury), 2017, watercolor over pen and ink. Courtesy of the Artist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Right: Ben Katchor, <\/span>drawing from <\/span>The Dairy Restaurant<\/span><\/i> (Schocken\/NextBook), <\/span>2020. Courtesy of the Artist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/760350816","day":"13","month":"Oct","year":"2022","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/in-the-wilds-of-brooklyn-roz-chast-and-ben-katchor-in-conversation\/"},"32":{"ID":29656,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Rediscovering Morris Hirshfield","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2022-08-11 19:52:12","name":"virtual-insights-rediscovering-morris-hirshfield","parent":0,"modified":"2022-10-11 22:08:14","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":29688,"id":29688,"title":"Girl with pigeons double banner","filename":"Girl-with-pigeons-double-banner.png","filesize":3224365,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Girl-with-pigeons-double-banner.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-rediscovering-morris-hirshfield\/girl-with-pigeons-double-banner\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"girl-with-pigeons-double-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":29656,"date":"2022-08-15 20:39:32","modified":"2022-08-15 20:39:32","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2100,"height":1050,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Girl-with-pigeons-double-banner-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Girl-with-pigeons-double-banner-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Girl-with-pigeons-double-banner-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Girl-with-pigeons-double-banner.png","large-width":2100,"large-height":1050,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Girl-with-pigeons-double-banner-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Girl-with-pigeons-double-banner-2048x1024.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1024}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Girl-With-Pigeons-white-banner.png","headline":"Virtual Insights: Rediscovering Morris Hirshfield ","di_date":"2022-10-03","excerpt":"

Join curators Richard Meyer, Susan Davidson and Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/span> behind the scenes of <\/span>Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered to learn more about the artist, his paintings and the themes included in this exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch a record of this program online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:15 pm","admission":"Free; Virtual ","main_content":"

1:00- 2:15 p.m. EDT\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The most comprehensive presentation of Hirshfield\u2019s work, <\/span>Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered <\/span><\/i>\u00a0reevaluates the art and the reception of a singular painter who has been posthumously overlooked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Join us for a conversation about the artist and the making of the exhibition with exhibition curator Richard Meyer, curatorial advisor Susan Davidson, and coordinating curator Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/span>. <\/span><\/i>With a focus on the painter\u2019s textile sensibility and the force of his imagination, this program will provide an in-depth study of Hirshfield\u2019s creative method and his art-historical relevance\u2014past and present.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From fantastical animals to spectacles of imaginary women, from invented landscapes to highly ornamental religious scenes, the curators will introduce the extraordinary variety of paintings featured in the Museum\u2019s gallery \u2013 more than half of the painter\u2019s output. Learn more about this incredible selection including works praised by the French Surrealists and collected by Peggy Guggenheim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While contextualizing the paintings on view in relation to the vibrant culture of the interwar years, this curatorial walkthrough will also unpack the ways in which the exhibition expands our understanding of the entangled histories of modernism and self-taught art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Space is limited; advance registration is required. Please click here to register<\/a>, and consider making a donation to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instructions for joining with a Zoom link and password will be provided by email upon registration confirmation under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d Closed captioning will be provided in English. For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email <\/span>publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curator and art historian <\/span>Susan Davidson<\/strong> is an authority in the fields of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art, with an expertise in the art of Robert Rauschenberg. Davidson is also an accomplished museum professional with over thirty-year\u2019s experience at two distinguished institutions: The Menil Collection, Houston, and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 2018, Davidson established her eponymous firm that produces curatorial projects for international museums and galleries, works with artist\u2019s foundations on building legacy, and provides collection management services for private collectors. She has served as a curatorial advisor to AFAM\u2019s <\/span>Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered<\/span><\/i> and authored a catalogue of works for the artist\u2019s monograph.<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard Meyer<\/strong> is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century American art, the history of photography, arts censorship and the first amendment, curatorial practice, and gender and sexuality studies.\u00a0 He is author of <\/span>Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>What Was Contemporary Art?<\/span><\/i> (MIT Press) as well as coeditor, with Catherine Lord, of <\/span>Art and Queer Culture<\/span><\/i>, and coauthor, with Peggy Phelan, of <\/span>Contact Warhol: Photography without End<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 Meyer served as guest curator of <\/span>Warhol\u2019s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered <\/span><\/i>at the Jewish Museum in New York and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and of <\/span>Naked Hollywood: Weegee in LosAngeles <\/span><\/i>at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/strong> is Curatorial Chair for Exhibitions & Senior Curator at the American Folk Art Museum. Since 2013, she has curated exhibitions on artists from various countries, including the AAMC Award\u2013winning <\/span>When the Curtain Never Comes Down<\/span><\/i> on performance art (2015), <\/span>Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet<\/span><\/i> (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 <\/span>Visionary Architectures<\/span><\/i> (The Alternative Guide to the Universe, Hayward Gallery, 2013), <\/span>Revealing Art Brut<\/span><\/i> (Culture & Mus\u00e9es, 2010), and <\/span>Vestiges de l\u2019indiscipline<\/span><\/i> (Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2007).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Image<\/strong>:<\/span> Morris Hirshfield, Girl with Pigeons<\/em>, 1942, Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 1\/8 inches, The Museum of Modern Art, 610.1967. \u00a9 2022 Robert and Gail Rentzer for Estate of Morris Hirshfield \/ Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.\u2060
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/758765454","day":"03","month":"Oct","year":"2022","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-rediscovering-morris-hirshfield\/"},"55":{"ID":29069,"post_type":"programs","title":"Elizabeth and Irwin Warren Folk Art Symposium 05\/22\/22","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2022-02-28 15:26:04","name":"elizabeth-and-irwin-warren-folk-art-symposium-05-22-22","parent":0,"modified":"2022-05-27 14:15:32","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":25,"name":"Symposia & Lectures","slug":"symposiaandlectures","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":29071,"id":29071,"title":"2022 Elizabeth and Irwin Warren Folk Art Symposium website BANNER","filename":"2022-Elizabeth-and-Irwin-Warren-Folk-Art-Symposium-website-BANNER.png","filesize":1760814,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-Elizabeth-and-Irwin-Warren-Folk-Art-Symposium-website-BANNER.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/elizabeth-and-irwin-warren-folk-art-symposium-05-22-22\/2022-elizabeth-and-irwin-warren-folk-art-symposium-website-banner\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"2022-elizabeth-and-irwin-warren-folk-art-symposium-website-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":29069,"date":"2022-02-28 15:30:30","modified":"2022-02-28 15:30:30","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2490,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-Elizabeth-and-Irwin-Warren-Folk-Art-Symposium-website-BANNER-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-Elizabeth-and-Irwin-Warren-Folk-Art-Symposium-website-BANNER-300x120.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":120,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-Elizabeth-and-Irwin-Warren-Folk-Art-Symposium-website-BANNER-768x308.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":308,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-Elizabeth-and-Irwin-Warren-Folk-Art-Symposium-website-BANNER.png","large-width":2490,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-Elizabeth-and-Irwin-Warren-Folk-Art-Symposium-website-BANNER-1536x617.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":617,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-Elizabeth-and-Irwin-Warren-Folk-Art-Symposium-website-BANNER-2048x822.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":822}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-Elizabeth-and-Irwin-Warren-Folk-Art-Symposium-website-LIST.png","headline":"2022 Elizabeth and Irwin Warren Folk Art Symposium | Objects of Inquiry: New Perspectives on American Folk Art","di_date":"2022-05-22","excerpt":"

A symposium showcasing new research and interdisciplinary approaches to American Folk Art<\/p>\n

Watch a recording of Session 1 online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch a recording of Session 2 online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"5:00 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":"

What comprises the field and study of \u201cAmerican folk art\u201d? In the early twentieth century, scholars, curators, artists, and dealers developed the concept of folk art as an expansive and sometimes contradictory framework to characterize a vast array of works from paintings and sculptures to samplers, quilts, and furniture. This virtual symposium will present new research exploring the many perspectives through which the study of folk art is currently approached, looking in particular at historically overlooked or understudied relationships between themes of identity, nationalism, and American folk art.<\/p>\n

To sign-up, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Drawing inspiration from the Museum\u2019s wide-ranging MULTITUDES<\/em><\/a> exhibition, talks will share new insights into 19th-century portraits and samplers, 20th-century quilts, and other artworks while revealing cross-disciplinary connections and expanded understandings of this field.<\/p>\n

Objects of Inquiry: New Perspectives on American Folk Art<\/em> is a symposium organized in honor of Elizabeth and Irwin Warren, dedicated advocates of the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), and in connection with the exhibition MULTITUDES<\/em>, which will be on view from January 21\u2013September 5, 2022. The program will be held over Zoom between 1:00 and 5:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, May 22, 2022.<\/p>\n

Speakers include:<\/strong> Glenn Adamson, Ph.D., curator, writer, and historian, Mariah Gruner, Ph.D., Recentering Collections Curatorial Fellow at Historic New England, Joseph H. Larnerd, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Design History at Drexel University, Yinshi Lerman-Tan, Ph.D., Bradford and Christine Mishler Associate Curator of American Art at the Huntington, Janneken Smucker, Ph.D., Professor of History at West Chester University, and Trevor Brandt, Ph.D. Student in Art History at the University of Chicago, with opening remarks by Emelie Gevalt, Curator of Folk Art and Curatorial Chair for Collections at the American Folk Art Museum, and closing remarks by William D. Moore, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Material Culture, Department of History of Art & Architecture and American & New England Studies Program, Boston University.<\/p>\n

Read speakers\u2019 abstracts<\/a> and learn more about our speakers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Space is limited; advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n

Instructions for joining with a Zoom link and password will be provided by email upon registration confirmation under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d Closed captioning will be provided in English. For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:00\u20133:00 p.m. | Session 1 Papers and Q&A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome Remarks<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Warren, President, American Folk Art Museum
\nEmelie Gevalt, Curatorial Chair for Collections and Curator of Folk Art, American Folk Art Museum and co-curator of MULTITUDES<\/p>\n

Objects of Dispute<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Glenn Adamson, Ph.D., curator, writer, and historian<\/p>\n

High Style Folk Art and New Deal Values: Quilts in the Index of American Design<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Janneken Smucker, Ph.D., Professor of History at West Chester University<\/p>\n

Ghosts of a Whimsey\u2019s Woodyard<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph H. Larnerd, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Design History at Drexel University<\/p>\n

3:00 p.m. | Break (15 minutes)<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:15\u20135:00 p.m. | Session 2 Papers and Q&A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stitching a Feminine Terrain: Authority, Property, and Home in American Schoolgirl Needlework<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mariah Gruner, Ph.D., Recentering Collections Curatorial Fellow at Historic New England<\/p>\n

More than Memory: New Perspectives on the Klaus Stopp Fraktur Collection<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Trevor Brandt, Ph.D. Student in Art History at the University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Sheldon Peck: Radical Folk Artist?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yinshi Lerman-Tan, Ph.D., Bradford and Christine Mishler Associate Curator of American Art at the Huntington<\/p>\n

Closing remarks<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

William D. Moore, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Material Culture, Department of History of Art & Architecture and American & New England Studies Program, Boston University<\/p>\n

5:00 p.m. | Symposium concludes<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Image: Mary Jane Smith (1833\u20131869) and Mary Morrell Smith (1798-1869), Log Cabin Quilt, Barn Raising Variation<\/em>, Whitestone, New York, United States, 1861\u20131865, Cotton, wool, and silk, 74 \u00d7 81\u201d, Gift of Mary D. Bromham, grandniece of Mary Jane Smith, 1987.9.1, Photo by Schecter Lee.<\/p>\n

Support for 2022 public programs is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M_aRwOC6Ytk&ab_channel=AmericanFolkArtMuseum","day":"22","month":"May","year":"2022","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/elizabeth-and-irwin-warren-folk-art-symposium-05-22-22\/"},"64":{"ID":29021,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Jordan Nassar on Memory and Embroidery 4\/26\/22","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2022-02-16 17:56:37","name":"virtual-insights-jordan-nassar-on-memory-and-embroidery-4-26-22","parent":0,"modified":"2022-04-27 17:51:22","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":29025,"id":29025,"title":"GhqxbZlk BANNER","filename":"GhqxbZlk-BANNER.png","filesize":3625900,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GhqxbZlk-BANNER.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-jordan-nassar-on-memory-and-embroidery-4-26-22\/ghqxbzlk-banner\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"ghqxbzlk-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":29021,"date":"2022-02-16 17:58:08","modified":"2022-02-16 17:58:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2490,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GhqxbZlk-BANNER-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GhqxbZlk-BANNER-300x120.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":120,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GhqxbZlk-BANNER-768x308.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":308,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GhqxbZlk-BANNER.png","large-width":2490,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GhqxbZlk-BANNER-1536x617.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":617,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GhqxbZlk-BANNER-2048x822.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":822}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GhqxbZlk-scaled.jpeg","headline":"Virtual Insights: Jordan Nassar on Memory and Embroidery","di_date":"2022-04-26","excerpt":"

Join contemporary artist Jordan Nassar live from his studio for a conversation on his creative practice and his responses to historic needlework pictures and samplers in<\/span> MULTITUDES<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Watch a recording of this program online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:15 pm","main_content":"

Join contemporary artist Jordan Nassar<\/a> live from his studio in New York as he discusses his artistic process, reflects on both themes of repetition and memory in MULTITUDES<\/a><\/em>, and responds to historic needlework pictures and samplers on view.
\nNassar will discuss how he incorporates traditional methods and motifs into his hand-embroidered compositions, creating abstracted and dream-like landscapes that engage with his cultural identity and Palestinian heritage. This conversation will also explore how artworks can communicate the human experience and offer a closer look into Nassar\u2019s ever-expanding creative practice, including new bodies of work and his ongoing collaboration with Palestinian craftswomen.<\/p>\n

Space is limited; advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n

Instructions for joining with a Zoom link and password will be provided by email upon registration confirmation under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d Closed captioning will be provided in English. For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jordan Nassar\u2019s<\/strong> (b.1985, New York, NY) hand-embroidered pieces address the intersection of craft, ethnicity, and the embedded notions of heritage and homeland. Treating traditional craft more as medium than topic, Nassar examines conflicting issues of identity and cultural participation using geometric patterning adapted from symbols and motifs present in traditional Palestinian hand embroidery. Meticulously hand stitching colorful compositions across carefully mapped-out patterns, he roots his practice in a geopolitical field of play characterized by both conflict and unspoken harmony. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions globally at institutions including the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) Tel Aviv, Israel; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, among others. Recent notable exhibitions include Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950 – 2019<\/em> at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone in New York, and The Field Is Infinite<\/em>, a solo exhibition at KMAC Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. His upcoming 2022 solo exhibitions include presentations at Kukje Gallery, Seoul; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; James Cohan, New York; and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston. Jordan Nassar is represented by James Cohan, New York; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; and The Third Line, Dubai.<\/p>\n

Support for 2022 public programs is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n

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Images: Image of the artist courtesy of the artist; Artist Unidentified, Needlework Picture<\/em>, Newburyport, Massachusetts, c. 1805\u20131810, Silk on linen, 16 1\/4 x 17 1\/2 in., American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of Ralph Esmerian, 2013.1.48.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/703755480","day":"26","month":"Apr","year":"2022","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-jordan-nassar-on-memory-and-embroidery-4-26-22\/"},"67":{"ID":29050,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Vanessa German and Amber J. Phillips on World-Building 4\/12\/22","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2022-02-25 21:45:44","name":"virtual-insights-vanessa-german-and-amber-j-phillips-on-world-building-4-12-22","parent":0,"modified":"2022-04-14 19:12:50","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":29051,"id":29051,"title":"Virtual Insights_ vanessa german and Amber J. Phillips Banner","filename":"Virtual-Insights_-vanessa-german-and-Amber-J.-Phillips-Banner-scaled.jpg","filesize":356862,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Virtual-Insights_-vanessa-german-and-Amber-J.-Phillips-Banner-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-vanessa-german-and-amber-j-phillips-on-world-building-4-12-22\/virtual-insights_-vanessa-german-and-amber-j-phillips-banner\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"virtual-insights_-vanessa-german-and-amber-j-phillips-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":29050,"date":"2022-02-25 21:45:28","modified":"2022-02-25 21:45:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1442,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Virtual-Insights_-vanessa-german-and-Amber-J.-Phillips-Banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Virtual-Insights_-vanessa-german-and-Amber-J.-Phillips-Banner-300x169.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Virtual-Insights_-vanessa-german-and-Amber-J.-Phillips-Banner-768x432.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Virtual-Insights_-vanessa-german-and-Amber-J.-Phillips-Banner-scaled.jpg","large-width":2560,"large-height":1442,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Virtual-Insights_-vanessa-german-and-Amber-J.-Phillips-Banner-1536x865.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":865,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Virtual-Insights_-vanessa-german-and-Amber-J.-Phillips-Banner-2048x1153.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1153}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Virtual-Insights_-vanessa-german-and-Amber-J.-Phillips-Banner-scaled.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: vanessa german and Amber J. Phillips on World-Building","di_date":"2022-04-12","excerpt":"

Join contemporary artists vanessa german and Amber J. Phillips for a conversation exploring their interdisciplinary creative practices and their responses to works on view in<\/span> MULTITUDES<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch a recording of this program online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:15 pm","main_content":"

Self-taught citizen artist vanessa german<\/a>\u2019s interdisciplinary creative practice involves working across sculpture, performance, communal ritual, immersive installation, and photography to create work that combats the historical and ongoing oppression of African American communities and envisions new futures and models of repair. Amber J. Phillips<\/a> is a storyteller, filmmaker, and art director whose work imagines a world where Black womanhood is an abundant overwhelming experience of safety, pleasure, and joy. Join us for a conversation with the artists as they discuss art, activism, and world-building, exploring themes of memory, healing, and love in their work and selected works on view in the Museum\u2019s current exhibition, MULTITUDES<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Space is limited; advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/p>\n

Instructions for joining with a Zoom link and password will be provided by email upon registration confirmation under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d Closed captioning will be provided in English. For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

vanessa german<\/a> is a self-taught citizen artist working across sculpture, performance, communal rituals, immersive installation, and photography, in order to repair and reshape disrupted systems, spaces, and connections. The artist\u2019s practice proposes new models for social healing, utilizing creativity and tenderness as vital forces to reckon with the historical and ongoing catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir. A visual storyteller, german utilizes assemblage and mixed media, combining locally found objects to build protective ritualistic structures known as her power figures. Modeled on Congolese Nkisi sculptures and drawing on folk art practices, they are embellished with materials including beading, glass, fabric, and sculpted wood and come into existence at the axis on which Black power, spirituality, mysticism, and feminism converge. Upholding artmaking as an act of restorative justice, german confronts and begins to dismantle the emotional and spiritual weight imposed by the multi-generational oppression of African American communities. As a queer Black woman living in the United States, german has described this as a deeply-necessary process of adventuring into the wild freedom that the inhabitation of such identities demands. german has been awarded the 2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, the 2017 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2018 United States Artist Grant, and, most recently, the 2018 Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.<\/p>\n

Amber J. Phillips<\/a> is a storyteller and filmmaker. She creates world-building narratives using warm visuals and vulnerable performances through her lens of being a Fat Black Queer femme auntie from the Midwest. Amber recently released her first short film, Abundance<\/em><\/strong>, about the limitations and radical possibilities of identity. Abundance<\/strong><\/em> was most recently a 2021 BlackStar Film Festival selection and won the audience award for Best Short Narrative. You can experience more of Amber\u2019s work on Instagram<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> @AmberAbundance.<\/p>\n

Support for 2022 public programs is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/p>\n

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Images: vanessa german, The Blood & The Animals, The Mirror & The Sky; An ode to the un-language-able truth of is-ness; 2017, mixed-media assemblage; 77 1\/2 x 36 x 35 inches; (PK 27190), and images of Amber J. Phillips courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/699066583","day":"12","month":"Apr","year":"2022","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-vanessa-german-and-amber-j-phillips-on-world-building-4-12-22\/"},"78":{"ID":28745,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Working Birds, Wildfowl Decoys, and Conservation 3\/16\/22","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2022-01-04 20:59:12","name":"virtual-insights-working-birds-wildfowl-decoys-and-conservation-3-16-22","parent":0,"modified":"2022-03-17 19:13:48","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":28754,"id":28754,"title":"Working Birds with NYC Audubon 2 WEBSITE BANNER","filename":"Working-Birds-with-NYC-Audubon-2-WEBSITE-BANNER.jpg","filesize":171161,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Working-Birds-with-NYC-Audubon-2-WEBSITE-BANNER.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-working-birds-wildfowl-decoys-and-conservation-3-16-22\/working-birds-with-nyc-audubon-2-website-banner\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"working-birds-with-nyc-audubon-2-website-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":28745,"date":"2022-01-04 20:59:06","modified":"2022-01-04 20:59:06","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2490,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Working-Birds-with-NYC-Audubon-2-WEBSITE-BANNER-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Working-Birds-with-NYC-Audubon-2-WEBSITE-BANNER-300x120.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":120,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Working-Birds-with-NYC-Audubon-2-WEBSITE-BANNER-768x308.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":308,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Working-Birds-with-NYC-Audubon-2-WEBSITE-BANNER.jpg","large-width":2490,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Working-Birds-with-NYC-Audubon-2-WEBSITE-BANNER-1536x617.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":617,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Working-Birds-with-NYC-Audubon-2-WEBSITE-BANNER-2048x822.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":822}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1969.1.65ii.-WEBSITE-LIST-sizejpg.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: Working Birds, Wildfowl Decoys, and Conservation ","di_date":"2022-03-16","excerpt":"

Explore\u00a0the fascinating history of wildfowl decoys and learn more from NYC Audubon about current conservation efforts to protect wild birds in New York City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch a recording of this program online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:00 pm","end_time":"7:30 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":"

Have you ever wondered what exactly distinguishes a decoy? Join us for a program in partnership with <\/span>NYC Audubon<\/span><\/a> and explore\u00a0the fascinating history of wildfowl decoys.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Considered one of the oldest American folk art forms, decoys were originally created by Indigenous hunters as early as 400 BC to lure wild birds, and are now used\u00a0<\/span>by nature photographers, scientists, and conservationists to document and monitor endangered species. Recently digitized, the American Folk Art Museum\u2019s wildfowl decoy collection is one of the Museum\u2019s earliest and most extensive holdings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracing historic\u00a0<\/span>decoy carvers, regions, styles, and species represented,\u00a0<\/span>Aimee\u00a0Lusty, recent Project Coordinator for the American Folk Art Museum\u2019s Wildfowl Decoy Project,\u00a0<\/span>will reveal new findings from the Museum\u2019s 2020-21 collection survey,<\/span>\u00a0and Kaitlyn Parkins, <\/span>Interim Director of Conservation\u00a0and Science<\/span> at NYC Audubon,<\/span>\u00a0will discuss<\/span>\u00a0current conservation projects involving decoys locally.\u00a0<\/span>This program will explore both the impact of early conservation efforts on decoy design and use, and NYC Audubon\u2019s ongoing\u00a0<\/span>advocacy for the protection of New York City\u2019s wild birds and their habitats<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This program is inspired by\u00a0the Museum\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>MULTITUDES<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0exhibition and\u00a0designed for birders, naturalists, and folk art enthusiasts alike!<\/span><\/p>\n

Space is limited; advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instructions for joining with a Zoom link and password will be provided by email upon registration confirmation under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d Closed captioning will be provided in English. For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aimee Lusty<\/strong> is an art historian, archivist, and naturalist based out of Brooklyn, New York. Aimee served as Project Coordinator for the Wildfowl Cataloging and Digitizing Project at the American Folk Art Museum from January\u2013October 2021. Aimee currently provides support to grant-funded projects at the Center for Brooklyn History and the National Audubon Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kaitlyn Parkins<\/strong> is an urban wildlife biologist with a background in conservation biology and animal behavior. Kaitlyn holds an MS in Biology and an Advanced Certificate in conservation biology from Fordham University, where she studied NYC\u2019s urban bat population for her thesis. Kaitlyn is currently Interim Director of Conservation\u00a0and Science at NYC Audubon, where she leads research programs focused on many aspects of urban bird conservation, including bird migration and movement, bird-window collisions, and beach-nesting shorebird productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Support for 2022 public programs is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Images:<\/span> Bufflehead Hen, <\/span><\/i>John Winsor, (dates unknown), Duxbury, Massachusetts, c. 1890<\/span>, <\/i><\/b>Paint on wood, <\/span>4 3\/4 \u00d7 9 3\/4 \u00d7 4 5\/8″, <\/span><\/i>Gift of Alastair B. Martin, 1969.1.65, American Folk Art Museum;<\/span> Photo courtesy of NYC Audubon.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/689354984","day":"16","month":"Mar","year":"2022","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-working-birds-wildfowl-decoys-and-conservation-3-16-22\/"},"90":{"ID":28643,"post_type":"programs","title":"2022 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture 2\/6\/22","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2021-12-21 17:44:00","name":"2022-anne-hill-blanchard-uncommon-artists-lecture-2-6-22","parent":0,"modified":"2022-02-08 19:18:48","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":28644,"id":28644,"title":"UncommonArtists_Banner for Program Listing2160x1080","filename":"UncommonArtists_Banner-for-Program-Listing2160x1080.jpeg","filesize":1365899,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/UncommonArtists_Banner-for-Program-Listing2160x1080.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/2022-anne-hill-blanchard-uncommon-artists-lecture-2-6-22\/uncommonartists_banner-for-program-listing2160x1080\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"uncommonartists_banner-for-program-listing2160x1080","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":28643,"date":"2021-12-21 17:39:53","modified":"2021-12-21 17:39:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2160,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/UncommonArtists_Banner-for-Program-Listing2160x1080-150x150.jpeg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/UncommonArtists_Banner-for-Program-Listing2160x1080-300x150.jpeg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/UncommonArtists_Banner-for-Program-Listing2160x1080-768x384.jpeg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/UncommonArtists_Banner-for-Program-Listing2160x1080.jpeg","large-width":2160,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/UncommonArtists_Banner-for-Program-Listing2160x1080-1536x768.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/UncommonArtists_Banner-for-Program-Listing2160x1080-2048x1024.jpeg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1024}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/plBRJo5A-scaled.jpeg","headline":"2022 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture ","di_date":"2022-02-06","excerpt":"

Join us online for the 2022 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture and discover new research on visionary artists Sister Gertrude Morgan, William Edmondson, and Joseph Yoakum with talks by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Jennifer Jane Marshall, and\u00a0Esther Adler\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch a recording of this program online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"3:00 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":"

Join us online for the 2022 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talks will explore new research on visionary artists Sister Gertrude Morgan, William Edmondson, and Joseph Yoakum, drawing on the expansive and wide-ranging approach of the American Folk Art Museum\u2019s <\/span>MULTITUDES<\/span><\/i><\/a> exhibition,<\/span> which will be on view from January 21 through September 5, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers include\u00a0<\/span>Valerie Cassel Oliver<\/strong> on connections between sonic and visual art-making in the work of Sister Gertrude Morgan,\u00a0<\/span>Jennifer Jane Marshall<\/strong> on materiality and William Edmondson\u2019s stone sculptures, and\u00a0<\/span>Esther Adler<\/strong>\u00a0on new approaches to Joseph Yoakum.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture Series<\/span><\/a>\u00a0highlights new and important contributions to the field of folk and self-taught art. This annual series honors the late Anne Hill Blanchard, an inspiring and passionate leader in the field and a devoted supporter of the American Folk Art Museum. The 2022 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture will be held online via Zoom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Space is limited; advance registration is required. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instructions for joining with a Zoom link and password will be provided by email upon registration confirmation under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d Closed captioning will be provided in English. For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schedule<\/span><\/p>\n

1:00 p.m. ET <\/span>Welcome & Opening Remarks<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

1:12 p.m. ET Valerie Cassel Oliver | <\/span>Sister Gertrude Morgan: A New World in My View<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

1:42 p.m. ET Jennifer Jane Marshall | <\/span>On Rock and William Edmondson<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

2:12 p.m. ET Esther Adler | <\/span>Seeing Joseph Yoakum<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Valerie Cassel Oliver<\/strong> is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Prior to her position at the VMFA, she was Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2000 \u2013 2017). She has served as director of the Visiting Artist Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1995-2000) and a program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts (1988-1995). Her 2018 debut exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts was the five-decade survey of work by Howardena Pindell entitled Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen.<\/em> The exhibition, co-organized with Naomi Beckwith, was mounted for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; this exhibition was named one of the most influential of the decade. At the VMFA, Cassel Oliver organized the exhibition, Cosmologies from the Tree of Life<\/em> that featured over thirty newly acquired works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. She recently opened the exhibition, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture and the Sonic Impulse<\/em>, to critical acclaim. The exhibition opened in Richmond in May 2021 and is currently touring through January 2023. Cassel Oliver is the recipient of a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship (2007); a fellowship from the Center of Curatorial Leadership (2009); the High Museum of Art\u2019s David C. Driskell Award (2011); the Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Foundation-to-Life Fellowship at Hunter College (2016) and the James A. Porter Book Award from Howard University (2018). From 2016-17, she was a Senior Fellow in Curatorial Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In Spring 2020, she served with Hamza Walker as a Fellow for Viewpoints at the University of Texas at Austin. Cassel Oliver holds an Executive MBA from Columbia University, New York, an M.A. in art history from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and a B.S. in communications from the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Jane Marshall<\/strong> is Professor of American Art at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, where she is also chair of the Art History Department. A specialist in histories of sculpture, museum display, and the marketplace, Dr. Marshall\u2019s book, <\/span>Machine Art, 1934, <\/span><\/i>a study of Alfred Barr and Philip Johnson\u2019s exhibition of industrial design at the Museum of Modern Art, won the <\/span>Dedalus Foundation\u2019s Robert Motherwell Book Award<\/span><\/a> in 2013. She is a former NEH recipient, fellow at her university\u2019s Institute for Advanced Studies, and visiting instructor at Stanford University. Dr. Marshall\u2019s research has appeared in <\/span>American Art<\/span><\/i>, the <\/span>Art Bulletin<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Hyperallergic<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> and the podcast <\/span>BackStory<\/span><\/i>. She is currently at work on a book about the American sculptor, William Edmondson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Esther Adler<\/strong> is Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art. Her exhibition <\/span>Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw <\/span><\/i>is on view at MoMA through March 19, 2022, and will travel to The Menil Collection in April, having opened at the Art Institute of Chicago on June 12, 2021. Most recently, she organized <\/span>Betye Saar: The Legends of <\/span><\/i>Black Girl\u2019s Window (with Christophe Cherix, 2019), <\/span>Charles White: A Retrospective<\/span><\/i> (with Sarah Kelly Oehler, 2018) and <\/span>Charles White\u2014Leonardo da Vinci. Curated by David Hammons<\/span><\/i> (2017). Past projects include <\/span>Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself <\/span><\/i>(2013), <\/span>American Modern: Hopper to O\u2019Keeffe <\/span><\/i>(2013), and<\/span> Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929\u20131983<\/span><\/i> (2011).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Support for 2022 public programs is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Images: William Edmondson (1874\u20131951), <\/span>Lady with Muff<\/span><\/i>, Nashville, Tennessee, c. 1940, Limestone, 15 1\/2 \u00d7 6 1\/2 \u00d7 6 \u00be\u201d, Gift of Ralph Esmerian, 2013.1.54, Photo by Gavin Ashworth; Joseph E. Yoakum (American, 1891-1972),\u00a0<\/span>Grizzly Gulch Valley Ohansburg Vermont<\/span><\/i>, n.d.\u00a0Black ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper,\u00a07 7\/8 \u00d7 9 7\/8″ (20 \u00d7 25.1 cm), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the Raymond K. Yoshida Living Trust and Kohler Foundation, Inc., 2012, Photo by Robert Gerhardt, The Museum of Modern Art Imaging Services; <\/span>Sister Gertrude Morgan in her Prayer Room, <\/span><\/i>Photo by Dr. Regenia A. Perry, Photo Courtesy of The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/674504779","day":"06","month":"Feb","year":"2022","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/2022-anne-hill-blanchard-uncommon-artists-lecture-2-6-22\/"},"94":{"ID":28586,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Making MULTITUDES 1\/25\/22","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2021-12-17 16:43:56","name":"virtual-insights-making-multitudes-1-25-22","parent":0,"modified":"2022-01-31 20:53:00","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":28590,"id":28590,"title":"Making MULTITUDES Banner for Program Listing BANNER","filename":"Making-MULTITUDES-Banner-for-Program-Listing-BANNER.png","filesize":5553171,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Making-MULTITUDES-Banner-for-Program-Listing-BANNER.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-making-multitudes-1-25-22\/making-multitudes-banner-for-program-listing-banner\/","alt":"","author":"19","description":"","caption":"","name":"making-multitudes-banner-for-program-listing-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":28586,"date":"2021-12-17 16:48:16","modified":"2021-12-17 16:48:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2490,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Making-MULTITUDES-Banner-for-Program-Listing-BANNER-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Making-MULTITUDES-Banner-for-Program-Listing-BANNER-300x120.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":120,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Making-MULTITUDES-Banner-for-Program-Listing-BANNER-768x308.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":308,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Making-MULTITUDES-Banner-for-Program-Listing-BANNER.png","large-width":2490,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Making-MULTITUDES-Banner-for-Program-Listing-BANNER-1536x617.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":617,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Making-MULTITUDES-Banner-for-Program-Listing-BANNER-2048x822.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":822}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Making-MULTITUDES-Banner-for-Program-Listing-scaled.jpeg","headline":"Virtual Insights: Making MULTITUDES","di_date":"2022-01-25","excerpt":"

Join exhibition curator Emelie Gevalt behind the scenes of\u00a0MULTITUDES<\/i>\u00a0and learn more about the art, artists, and themes included in this exhibition.<\/p>\n

Watch a recording of this program online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:15 pm","admission":"Online; free with registration","main_content":"

From extraordinary\u00a0early American portraits and dazzlingly complex quilts to playful whimsy bottles, delicately hand-tinted photographs, and fragments of rare twentieth-century art environments,\u00a0<\/span>MULTITUDES<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0is an exhibition that celebrates six decades of collecting at the American Folk Art Museum across four centuries of folk and self-taught art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Please note the following program change; exhibition curator and Curator of Folk Art Emelie Gevalt will now provide an overview of the MULTITUDES<\/em> exhibition, followed by audience Q&A. Exhibition co-curator and Senior Curator Val\u00e9rie Rousseau will speak at a later date.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Highlighting artists\u2019 diverse experiences, identities, and creative practices, this program will unpack some of the ways in which this wide-ranging exhibition expands our understanding of the Museum\u2019s unique holdings. Learn more about beloved works from the collection, as well as new acquisitions by celebrated artists William Edmondson, Ammi Phillips, and many others on display for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Emelie Gevalt<\/strong>\u00a0is Curatorial Chair for Collections and Curator of Folk Art at the American Folk Art Museum, where she most recently coordinated\u00a0<\/span>American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds<\/span><\/i>, and organized the traveling exhibition of\u00a0<\/span>American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection<\/span><\/i>. In addition to her curatorial work, Gevalt is a doctoral candidate in American art history at the University of Delaware, where her scholarship has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.\u00a0Often 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, decorative painting, the Colonial Revival movement, and African American material culture and representation.\u00a0Her dissertation is entitled \u201cUnseen New England: Identity & Exclusion in 18<\/span>th<\/span>-Century Art and Material Culture.\u201d 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 research has been supported in part by grants from the Craft Research Fund and the Decorative Arts Trust and has been published by the Chipstone Foundation. She has previously held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and at Christie\u2019s, New York, where she served as a Vice President and Senior Account Manager in the Estates & Appraisals department.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Support for 2022 public programs is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Images: Eddie Owens Martin, aka St. EOM, <\/span>Untitled<\/span><\/i>, Buena Vista, Georgia, c. 1935\u20131957, Watercolor and pen on paper, 17 1\/4 x 14 in., Gift of the Columbus State University Foundation and Kohler Foundation, Inc., made possible by Institute 193, 2018.22.4; Pecolia Warner, <\/span>Pig Pen Quilt (Log Cabin Variation)<\/span><\/i>, Yazoo City, Mississippi, 1982, Cotton, linen, and synthetics, 79 1\/2 x 76 1\/2 in., Gift of Maude and James Wahlman, 1991.32.3, Photo by Scott Bowron; School of John Conrad Gilbert, <\/span>Taufschein for Isaac Wummer<\/span><\/i>, Pennsylvania, c. 1810, Watercolor and ink on paper, 7 7\/8 \u00d7 12 3\/16\u201d, Gift of Ralph Esmerian, 2013.1.33, Photo by John Bigelow Taylor.<\/span><\/p>\n

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