{"2":{"ID":33539,"post_type":"programs","title":"A Beautiful Stillness: Artists Mariam Ghani, Erin Ellen Kelly, Maria Molteni and Cauleen Smith in Conversation 12-19-24","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2024-08-20 22:29:44","name":"a-beautiful-stillness-artists-mariam-ghani-maria-molteni-and-cauleen-smith-in-conversation-12-19-24","parent":0,"modified":"2025-01-17 23:19:31","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":33552,"id":33552,"title":"BannerDec19_resized","filename":"BannerDec19_resized.png","filesize":229685,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BannerDec19_resized.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/a-beautiful-stillness-artists-mariam-ghani-maria-molteni-and-cauleen-smith-in-conversation-12-19-24\/bannerdec19_resized\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"bannerdec19_resized","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":33539,"date":"2024-08-21 22:30:08","modified":"2024-08-21 22:30:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":927,"height":386,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BannerDec19_resized-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BannerDec19_resized-300x125.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":125,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BannerDec19_resized-768x320.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":320,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BannerDec19_resized.png","large-width":927,"large-height":386,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BannerDec19_resized.png","1536x1536-width":927,"1536x1536-height":386,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BannerDec19_resized.png","2048x2048-width":927,"2048x2048-height":386}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BannerDec19_resized.png","headline":"A Beautiful Stillness: Artists Mariam Ghani, Erin Ellen Kelly, Maria Molteni and Cauleen Smith in Conversation","di_date":"2024-12-19","excerpt":"

Join artists Mariam Ghani, Erin Ellen Kelly, Maria Molteni and Cauleen Smith for a conversation about the Shaker influence on American culture and imagination.<\/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":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

A radical Christian sect led to America by Mother Ann Lee in 1774, the Shakers adopted a communal lifestyle dedicated to the principles of celibacy, pacifism, egalitarianism, and simple living. They brought about a utopian society based on gender and race equality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mariam Ghani, Erin Ellen Kelly, Maria Molteni and Cauleen Smith all refer to Shaker communal life in their meditations on the American landscape and imagination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the grounds and the collection of Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, Maria Molteni\u2019s film, <\/span>Sacred Sheets,<\/i><\/b> \u201cevokes and reawakens the spirit of Shaker routine.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Shot at the Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly\u2019s photograph and film series, <\/span>When the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved,<\/i><\/b> reveal \u201cShaker landscaping, architecture, song and dance as ways of organizing being-in-common\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As in Cauleen Smith\u2019s films,<\/span> Pilgrim<\/i><\/b> and <\/span>Sojourner<\/i><\/b>, the Shaker historic villages in New York, NY, appear as utopian ventures where American \u201cpeople [came] together with intention and determination to build a world, systems, and cultures that are bigger than themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In conversation with art writer Julie Schneider, the artists will present their research-based artworks that revisit episodes in Shaker history<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>then<\/span> share their fascinations for the Shaker gift drawings and the Era of manifestations. Drawing from artifacts on view in the exhibition <\/span>Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic<\/i><\/b>, this multi-part program will offer an opportunity to reflect on Shaker influence on American material culture, and discuss the possibilities that the sect\u2019s lifestyle opens for us today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Curated by Mathilde Walker-Billaud, AFAM Curator of Programs and Engagement<\/p>\n

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About the speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mariam Ghani<\/strong><\/a> is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work operates at the intersections of language, loss, migration, memory, and history. Her films, public projects, photographs, and installations have been presented and collected worldwide, notably in Times Square and the new Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport; the Guggenheim, New Museum, MoMA, Smithsonian and Metropolitan Museums; the CCCB in Barcelona, the Secession in Vienna, and Para\/Site in Hong Kong; Documenta 13, the Dhaka Art Summit, and the Liverpool, Lahore, Yinchuan, and Sharjah Biennials; and the Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, SFFILM, DOC NYC, Sheffield Doc\/Fest, BlackStar, Ji.hlava, and Ann Arbor film festivals. Museum solo shows include the St. Louis Art Museum, the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, the Schneider Museum of Art in Oregon, and the Queens Museum of Art in NYC. Ghani\u2019s first feature film, the critically acclaimed documentary<\/span> What We Left Unfinished<\/span><\/i><\/a>, tells the mostly true story of five unfinished Afghan Communist films. It premiered at the 2019 Berlinale, was released theatrically in the US by Dekanalog, and had its streaming premiere on the Criterion Channel. Her second feature film,<\/span> Dis-Ease<\/span><\/i><\/a>, looks at the real consequences of how we fictionalize disease, and premieres in summer 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ghani is known for projects that engage with places, ideas, issues and institutions over long periods of time, often as part of long-term collaborations. These include: collaborations with the<\/span> Endangered Language Alliance<\/span><\/a> on<\/span> data visualization murals<\/span><\/a> for the Queens Museum and LaGuardia Airport (2015-16, 2022-23); critical, curatorial, conservation and creative work with the national film archive Afghan Films (2012-20), with support from the media archiving collective<\/span> Pad.ma<\/span><\/a> and a number of international art institutions; the video and performance series<\/span> Performed Places<\/span><\/a>, ongoing since 2006, in collaboration with choreographer<\/span> Erin Ellen Kelly<\/span><\/a> and composer<\/span> Qasim Naqvi<\/span><\/a>; and the experimental archive and discussion platform<\/span> Index of the Disappeared<\/span><\/a>, initiated with artist<\/span> Chitra Ganesh<\/span><\/a> in 2004, which has also become a vehicle for collaborations with other activists, archivists, artists, journalists, lawyers and scholars.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ghani has received a number of fellowships, awards, grants, and residencies, most recently from the Graham Foundation, Field of Vision, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Wellcome Trust, the New York Public Library, Creative Capital, EMPAC, the 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles, the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law, and the Center for Constitutional Rights. She also produces critical writing, organizes symposiums, and lectures widely, most recently for the Center for Arts and Society at Carnegie Mellon, the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, the HKW in Berlin, the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, the Mosaic Rooms and the Photographers Gallery in London,<\/span> pad.ma<\/span><\/a> in Mumbai, the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, DOC NYC Pro, Sundance Co\/Lab, and Asia Art Archive, Rhizome, Triple Canopy, UnionDocs, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in NYC.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ghani teaches film\/video at<\/span> Bennington College.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Erin Ellen Kelly<\/strong><\/a> creates and choreographs for on-site presentation, the stage, installations, video and photographs and presents in varied locations, within natural, liminal and constructed environments. Working with the belief in embodied intelligence she is interested in the relationships between the tangible and intangible. Through a process based approach the aim is for the body and its dance to explore subtle and nuanced relationships to surrounding environments and their inhabitants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her work has been developed through the support of residency programs that include the Camargo Foundation, Movement Research, LMCC at Governors\u2019 Island, Banff Centre, Frida Hansen Haus, PARSE NOLA, SIren Arts as well as a CSA farming apprenticeship, and enhanced through collaborative practices. She was a MFA Teaching Fellowship at Bennington College and is currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of Arkansas School of Art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Erin has presented work in various contexts, and through the support of institutions and festivals that include: The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Serpintine Slacker Gallery, The Speed Museum, The Bass Museum: Temporary \/ Contemporary Series, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Kusthaus Tacheles, Nacht&Nebel Festival Berlin, Sharjah Biennial9, Indianapolis Museum of Art, LPR at the Knockdown Center, Danspace, and the Queens Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Molteni<\/a> <\/strong>(They\/Them, b. 1983, Nashville) is a Massachusetts-based interdisciplinary artist, educator, mystic, and independent Shaker researcher of 17 years – since their first visit to the living Shakers in 2007. They descend from competitive square dancers, quilters and beekeepers who farmed Tennessee land just south of South Union Shaker Village (KY). Molteni is widely known for laying the foundations for the community-centered basketball court painting movement via their<\/span> Cosmic Courts<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/a> But they pull from a wide range of historical and popular cultural contexts, picturing themself as a (meta)Physical-Ed coach for visionary movements and intentional communities. With backgrounds in painting, publication, dance and athletics, their practice blooms to incorporate deep research, embodied spirituality and collaboration with the living and the dead. They are a current member of Lake Pleasant (oldest Spiritualist community in MA) and serve on the board of the Golden Dome School for mystic artists. Their intuitive practice spans astrology, tarot, dreamwork, conchomancy and color magic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through residencies, pilgrimage, and independent research, Molteni has worked closely with the archives of most existing historic Shaker villages- particularly Canterbury (NH), Hancock (MA), Harvard and Shirley Shaker Villages (via Fruitlands Museum, MA), and South Union (KY). They have also conducted experiential research on the sites and grounds of Sabbathday Lake (Maine), Mount Lebanon (NY), and Watervliet (NY). With a focus on the Era of Manifestations, particularly Gift Drawings and Mountain Meetings, Molteni\u2019s interest in the Shakers includes their socio-spiritual philosophies, ordered + free-form dance styles, spirit communication, celestial observations, and matriarchal + queer studies lenses on Shaker culture. Molteni\u2019s most notable projects created in conversation with Shaker studies include:<\/span> Shaker Work-Out<\/span><\/i><\/a> video series,<\/span> Great Awakenings\/ Radical Road Trip<\/span><\/i><\/a> pilgrimage hosted with Now Age Travel, and the<\/span> 2021 film <\/span>Sacred Sheets<\/span><\/i>,<\/span><\/a> created in collaboration with Allison Halter. This fall and winter Molteni will be offering several lectures and longer form classes on the Shaker Era of Manifestations\/ Gift Drawings through AFAM, the Viktor Wynd Museum\/Last Tuesday Society (London), and Morbid Anatomy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Molteni has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums as well as basements, meadows, sidewalks and seascapes across the globe. Two museum solo shows are currently on view: <\/span>Beautiful Seven<\/span><\/i>, through November 7 at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (CA) and <\/span>Soft Score<\/span><\/i>, through January 13 at Fuller Craft Museum (MA). Past institutions include: The Momentary Contemporary Art Museum (Bentonville, AR), ICA and MFA Boston, Project Rowhouses (Houston), Den Frei Contemporary Art Center (Copenhagen), NGBK (Berlin), Museum of Design (Atlanta), A +A Gallery (Venice, Italy).<\/span><\/p>\n

Cauleen Smith<\/strong><\/a> was born in 1967 in Riverside, California. She received her BA, in 1991, from San Francisco State University, and her MFA, in 1998, from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2007, she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine. In 2020 the Whitney Museum of American Art presented <\/span>Cauleen Smith: Mutualities<\/span><\/i>, which marked the artist\u2018s first solo exhibition in New York and was presented in conjunction with the installation <\/span>Cauleen Smith: Signals from Here<\/span><\/i> on the High Line. In 2018, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, organized the traveling exhibition <\/span>Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It<\/span><\/i>, which traveled to the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, in 2019, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in 2021. She has also been included in the Whitney Biennial (2017) and Yorkshire Sculpture International (2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

As a writer, editor, journalist, and photographer,<\/span> Julie Schneider<\/b> <\/a>produces stories about arts and culture, health and science, entrepreneurship, tech, lifestyle, community, and the weird and the wonderful. She has served in staff editorial, content, copy, and community roles for Etsy, Patreon, Miro, CreativeMornings, and The Midst. She currently freelance for arts and culture publications, an online marketplace, tech companies that make tools for creators, and telehealth companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her writing has appeared in various print and digital publications, including <\/span>Hyperallergic<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Center Magazine<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Taproot Magazine<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>An Injustice! Magazine<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Midst, MiroBlog, Patreon’s Creator Hub, Chronicle Books’ blog, NYCity News Service, Northwestern Mutual, The Blossom (by the Endometriosis Foundation of America), Flow Magazine, the Etsy Journa<\/span><\/i>l, and elsewhere. Her words and visual works have also appeared in several craft and creativity books, including Bibliocraft by Jessica Pigza, Handmade Graphics by Anna Wray, 1-2-3 Quilt by Ellen Luckett Baker, and 1,000 Ideas for Creative Reuse by Garth Johnson.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Left: <\/span>Maria Molteni and Allison Halter, <\/span>Sacred Sheets<\/i><\/strong>, film, 2021, 18 min<\/span>. Courtesy of the artists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Middle: <\/span>Mariam Ghani & Erin Ellen Kelly, Meeting House, Morning<\/strong><\/em>, from the series When the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved, dye transfer print on dibond, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Cauleen Smith, <\/span>Pilgrim<\/span><\/i>, 2017, digital video, 07:41 min., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the SJ Weiler Fund, 2020.54.2, \u00a9 2020, Cauleen Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

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Registration<\/strong><\/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<\/a>.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1043476962?share=copy","day":"19","month":"Dec","year":"2024","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/a-beautiful-stillness-artists-mariam-ghani-maria-molteni-and-cauleen-smith-in-conversation-12-19-24\/"},"46":{"ID":33594,"post_type":"programs","title":"The World at Play: Naomi Clark and Mary Flanagan on Historical Gameboards 10-23-24","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2024-09-04 23:44:01","name":"the-world-at-play-naomi-clark-and-mary-flanagan-on-historical-gameboards-10-23-24","parent":0,"modified":"2024-10-29 20:19:10","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":33599,"id":33599,"title":"banner design - 1","filename":"banner-design-2rev.jpg","filesize":583839,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-design-2rev.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/the-world-at-play-naomi-clark-and-mary-flanagan-on-historical-gameboards-10-23-24\/banner-design-1\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"banner-design-1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":33594,"date":"2024-09-04 23:51:05","modified":"2024-09-04 23:51:05","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1669,"height":716,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-design-2rev-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-design-2rev-300x129.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":129,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-design-2rev-768x329.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":329,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-design-2rev.jpg","large-width":1669,"large-height":716,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-design-2rev-1536x659.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":659,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-design-2rev.jpg","2048x2048-width":1669,"2048x2048-height":716}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-design-2rev.jpg","headline":"The World at Play: Naomi Clark and Mary Flanagan on Historical Gameboards","di_date":"2024-10-23","excerpt":"

Join game historians and designers Naomi Clark and Mary Flanagan for a conversation about the Wendel Gameboard Collection on view in the exhibition <\/span>Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture.<\/span><\/i><\/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":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

Many gameboards on view in the exhibition <\/span>Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture <\/span><\/i>offer a glimpse into the social and economic changes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries<\/span>. <\/span><\/i>As<\/span> locally-made artifacts and educational tools, they often reflect, if not reinforce, the values and priorities of modern America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the Wendel Gameboard Collection as a reference, game scholar and designer Mary Flanagan (<\/span>Critical Play: Radical Game Design<\/span><\/i><\/a>, 2009, MIT; <\/span>Playing Oppression. The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games<\/span><\/i><\/a>, 2023, MIT) <\/span><\/i>will discuss her historical research about game rules, design, role-playing and community building. Followed by a conversation with Naomi Clarck, Chair of the NYU Game Center, her presentation will highlight the cultural and political significance of board games such as the Game of the Goose, Monopoly, Chess and Parcheesi while shedding a new light on play, and the game industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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About the speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary Flanagan<\/strong> has a research-based, transdisciplinary practice informed by her methodology \u201c<\/span>critical play<\/span><\/a>.\u201d She investigates and exploits the seams between technology, play, and human experience to make the unseen perceptible. Interested in the ways technologies can adopt or represent hidden biases, Flanagan uncovers the underpinnings of technological systems to make them apparent. Her approach involves both onscreen space as well as physical spaces, objects, and actions. She sees the computer as a collaborator and pursues collisions with aleatory events, chance operations and glitched code.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Flanagan has exhibited internationally at venues such as The Guggenheim New York, Tate Britain, Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia Lisbon, the Centre de Cultura Contempor\u00e0nia de Barcelona, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, The Baltimore Museum of Art, NeMe Arts Center, Cyprus, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci\u00f3n Industrial, Spain, Museum of Fine Arts Cologne, and the Whitney Biennial of American Art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her work is featured in public and private collections, including The Whitney Museum and ZKM | Zentrum f\u00fcr Kunst und Medien Germany and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Flanagan won the Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica in the Interactive art+ for her work [help me know the truth] and is the recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship, the Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and has been awarded residencies with the Brown Foundation, MacDowell, Bogliasco, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Flanagan has lectured widely including at Oxford, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, and the Sorbonne. She was a John Paul Getty Museum Scholar, a Senior Scholar in Residence at the Cornell Society for the Humanities, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto and received an Honoris Causa in Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. Her work has been supported by commissions and grants including The British Arts Council, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Flanagan has been invited as a cultural leader at the World Economic Forum at Davos. She is also the Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College and lives and works in Hanover, NH and the city of Houston, TX.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naomi Clark <\/strong>is a game designer, teacher, and scholar who has been making games since 1999. In that time, she’s contributed to over three dozen titles in varied roles, including game designer, writer, and producer, as well as occasionally contributing to code and graphic design. Naomi\u2019s experience ranges from games for well-known companies such as LEGO and Atari to casual and mobile games for mass audiences, along with smaller-scale independent and experimental work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides her industry experience, Naomi is also a games scholar and critic. She co-authored <\/span>A Game Design Vocabulary<\/span><\/i>, a textbook that provides a conceptual framework for game analysis and creation, and contributed to collections including <\/span>Queer Game Studies<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Videogames for Humans<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Honey and Hot Wax<\/span><\/i>. She has given numerous talks at game conferences and festivals such as the Game Developers Conference, A MAZE, Indiecade, Games for Change and DiGRA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to her appointment as a NYU faculty member in 2016, Naomi served as an adjunct professor at Parsons: the New School for Design, the School of Visual Arts, and the New York Film Academy in addition to NYU. She served as one of the first advisors for the NYU Game Center’s incubator and developed early courses for the department’s graduate and undergraduate curriculum. For the NYU Game Center’s No Quarter exhibition, she created <\/span>Consentacle<\/span><\/i>, a two-player card game that explores complex themes of sexuality and consent. Her current work spans cooperative strategy games and roleplaying. Outside of games, Naomi was also a founding member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project collective, and a drummer for several bands in Brooklyn’s Queer Country music scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Left: <\/span>Nine Men\u2019s Morris Board, <\/strong>early 20th century, carved and stained wood with wood frame, 14 x 14 in. American Folk Art Museum, Gift of Doranna and Bruce Wendel<\/span>; right: <\/span>Shoot Out, <\/strong>early 20th century, paint on wood, iron, 26 1\/2 x 17 in. Collection of Doranna and Bruce Wendel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n

This program is presented in partnership with the NYU Game Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Registration<\/strong><\/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 <\/span>publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zu3r2EtLMWg","day":"23","month":"Oct","year":"2024","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/the-world-at-play-naomi-clark-and-mary-flanagan-on-historical-gameboards-10-23-24\/"},"58":{"ID":33493,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Anticipating the Modern: The Innovative Aesthetics of Gameboards and Shaker Gift Drawings","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2024-07-22 22:01:40","name":"virtual-insights-anticipating-the-modern-the-innovative-aesthetics-of-gameboards-and-shaker-gift-drawings","parent":0,"modified":"2024-09-20 19:24:21","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":33502,"id":33502,"title":"Untitled design (35)","filename":"Untitled-design-35.png","filesize":3460794,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-35.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-anticipating-the-modern-the-innovative-aesthetics-of-gameboards-and-shaker-gift-drawings\/untitled-design-35\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"untitled-design-35","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":33493,"date":"2024-07-24 18:40:25","modified":"2024-07-24 18:40:25","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\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-35-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-35-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-35-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-35.png","large-width":2100,"large-height":1050,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-35-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-35-2048x1024.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1024}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ABS_021i-A-Type-of-Mother-Hannahs-Pocket-Handkerchief-FRONT-1-scaled.jpg","headline":"Virtual Insights: Anticipating the Modern: The Innovative Aesthetics of Gameboards and Shaker Gift Drawings ","di_date":"2024-09-18","excerpt":"

Join curator Emelie Gevalt for a behind the scenes of <\/span>Anything But Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic <\/span><\/i>and<\/span> Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture<\/span><\/i> to learn more about the artworks, the artists, and the themes included in these two visually dazzling and historically complex new exhibitions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch a recording of this program online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:30 pm","main_content":"

In this program, AFAM\u2019s Curatorial Chair for Collections and Curator of Folk Art Emelie Gevalt walks us through two current exhibitions: <\/span>Anything But Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic <\/span><\/i>and<\/span> Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> which both shed light on American early modernist aesthetics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the intersection of arts, design, and religion, <\/span>Anything But Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic <\/span><\/i>complicates understandings of Shakers\u2019 minimalism with a series of vibrant, divinely-inspired drawings made by women in the mid-19th century. Similarly placed at a crossroads between arts, design, and popular culture, <\/span>Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture<\/span><\/i> reflects the emergence of a colorful abstract language through a rich selection of locally-made gameboards, many created at the turn of the 20th century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This curatorial walkthrough will present the various artifacts on view in the galleries \u2013 including intricate drawings, handcrafted gameboards, furniture, utilitarian objects and archival materials \u2013 while exploring larger cultural themes including the emergence of modernism, the blurred boundaries between handicraft and arts, and the role of community in the development of American material culture in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u00a0<\/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

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About the speaker:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Emelie Gevalt is Curatorial Chair for Collections and Curator of Folk Art at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. 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 art and material culture including especially portraiture, textiles, decorative painting, the Colonial Revival movement, and African American representation. Her research has been supported by grants from, among others, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Craft Research Fund, the Decorative Arts Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She publishes and lectures widely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gevalt\u2019s exhibitions at AFAM include the critically acclaimed <\/span>What that Quilt Knows About Me<\/span><\/i> (2023)<\/span> and <\/span>Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North <\/span><\/i>(2023), heralded by <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/i> as \u201cvitally important\u201d and \u201cdeeply moving.\u201d <\/span>She received her BA in art history and theater studies from Yale University (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa), her MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and her PhD in art history from the University of Delaware. Her two decades of art-world experience include positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Christie\u2019s, New York, where she served as a Vice President in the Estates, Appraisals & Valuations department.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Left: Polly Jane Reed, <\/span>A Type of Mother Hannah\u2019s Pocket Handkerchief, <\/i><\/b>New Lebanon, New York, 1851, Ink and watercolor on paper, 23 5\/8 x 26 in. (framed), Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts, 63.126.1.<\/span><\/p>\n

Right: <\/span>Parcheesi Board, <\/b>late 19th \/ early 20th century, Paint on wood, 18 1\/4 x 18 1\/4 in. American Folk Art Museum, Promised gift of Doranna and Bruce Wendel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AcoR4WFOXgM","day":"18","month":"Sep","year":"2024","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-anticipating-the-modern-the-innovative-aesthetics-of-gameboards-and-shaker-gift-drawings\/"},"70":{"ID":33369,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Somewhere to Roost","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2024-06-24 18:25:25","name":"virtual-insights-somewhere-to-roost","parent":0,"modified":"2024-08-05 20:11:15","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":33375,"id":33375,"title":"Untitled design (31)","filename":"Untitled-design-31.png","filesize":12707771,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Untitled-design-31.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-somewhere-to-roost\/untitled-design-31\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"untitled-design-31","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":33369,"date":"2024-06-25 01:04:36","modified":"2024-06-25 01:04:36","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\/2024\/06\/Untitled-design-31-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Untitled-design-31-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Untitled-design-31-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Untitled-design-31-6000x3000.png","large-width":6000,"large-height":3000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Untitled-design-31-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Untitled-design-31-2048x1024.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1024}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1991.13.9-update.jpeg","headline":"Virtual Insights: Somewhere to Roost ","di_date":"2024-07-30","excerpt":"

Go behind the scenes with exhibition curator Brooke Wyatt to explore <\/span>Somewhere to Roost<\/span><\/i> and learn more about the artworks, artists, and themes included in this exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

 <\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:15 pm","main_content":"

The exhibition <\/span>Somewhere to Roost <\/span><\/i>takes inspiration from the artistic practice of Thornton Dial, Sr., whose poetically-entitled work, <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Birds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost<\/span><\/i>,\u201d<\/span><\/a> invites us to consider the importance of sanctuary, comfort and safety for everyone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this program, exhibition curator Brooke Wyatt walks us through the exhibition <\/span>Somewhere to Roost<\/span><\/i>, inviting viewers to contemplate a range of objects including painting and sculpture, furniture, quilts, and photographs. Highlighting how works by self-taught and folk artists evoke a sense of home, this curatorial walkthrough will provide further reflections on the spaces where artists from the AFAM collection live(d) and work(ed) while conjuring imaginary places that assert the importance of rest, safety and ecological care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhere to Roost<\/em> is the third in a series of thematic shows drawn from the Museum\u2019s collection that runs from March 2023 to May 2025. These exhibitions invite viewers to admire the museum\u2019s collection up close while showcasing an expansive history of American art.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brooke Wyatt<\/strong> is Luce Assistant Curator at the American Folk Art Museum where she is working on a series of exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s collection of folk and self-taught art. She practiced as a clinical therapist in community mental health settings and worked as an art teacher before beginning her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Brooke’s doctoral dissertation, titled “S\u00e9raphine Louis and Self-Taught Art in Transatlantic Modernist Discourse,” explores the material and representational strategies of the French artist S\u00e9raphine Louis, foregrounding how histories of race, gender, class, and disability have shaped the reception and exhibition of Louis’s work across Europe and the Americas from the late 1920s to the present day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Registration<\/strong><\/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 <\/span>publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somewhere to Roost <\/span><\/i>is generously supported by <\/span>a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation<\/span><\/a>. Presented in the Daniel Cowin Gallery \u2013 originally established by Trustee <\/span>Joyce Berger Cowin<\/span><\/a> in memory of her husband, also a Trustee and champion of the Museum, it includes recently acquired works, including selections from the<\/span> Audrey B. Heckler collection<\/span><\/a>, and gifts from Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, Peter J. Cohen, and Willett Bracken Evans.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

(L) Thornton Dial Sr. (1928\u20132016), <\/span>Birds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost,<\/span><\/i> Bessemer, Alabama, 2012. Wood, carpet scraps, corrugated tin, burlap, nails, and enamel on wood, 61 1\/4 \u00d7 48 \u00d7 10\u2033. Gift of the Thornton Dial Family, 2013.6.1.Photo by Stephen Pitkin \/ Pitkin Studio \u00a9 2016 Estate of Thornton Dial.<\/span> (R) <\/span>Mozell Benson, (1934\u20132012), Strip Variation Quilt, Opelika, Alabama, 1991, Cotton with wool and synthetic yarns, 88 \u00d7 70 1\/2 in., American Folk Art Museum, New York, museum purchase made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, with matching funds from the Great American Quilt Festival 3, 1991.13.9.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tXrsaqp3GbY","day":"30","month":"Jul","year":"2024","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-somewhere-to-roost\/"},"95":{"ID":32881,"post_type":"programs","title":"Radical Institutions and Experimental Psychiatry: The Legacy of Francesc Tosquelles on Film","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2024-04-11 14:11:33","name":"radical-institutions-and-experimental-psychiatry-the-legacy-of-francesc-tosquelles-on-film","parent":0,"modified":"2024-09-24 01:16:11","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":31,"name":"Special Events","slug":"special-events","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":31,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":32888,"id":32888,"title":"Untitled design (21)","filename":"Untitled-design-21-2.png","filesize":2491808,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/radical-institutions-and-experimental-psychiatry-the-legacy-of-francesc-tosquelles-on-film\/untitled-design-21-4\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"untitled-design-21-4","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":32881,"date":"2024-04-11 14:14:35","modified":"2024-04-11 14:14:35","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2097,"height":730,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2-300x104.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":104,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2-768x267.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":267,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2.png","large-width":2097,"large-height":730,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2-1536x535.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":535,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-21-2-2048x713.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":713}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/abandoned-goods-scaled.jpg","headline":"Radical Institutions and Experimental Psychiatry: The Legacy of Francesc Tosquelles on Film","di_date":"2024-06-21","excerpt":"

Join us at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) from Friday, June 21, to Sunday, June 23<\/strong>, for series of films followed by discussions exploring the significance of community, self-management and creativity in the care for mental illness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","start_time":"3:30 pm","end_time":"8:30 pm","admission":"In-Person; Tickets: $15 \/ $11 senior and students ","main_content":"

The visionary psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles (1912\u20131994) reshaped institutions of therapeutic care during his time at the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in Southern France.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From World War II through the early 1960s, the Catalan doctor devised a series of psychiatric practices that came to be called institutional psychotherapy, based on nonhierarchical and collective interactions between patients, medical staff, on-site workers, and neighboring rural communities. At the heart of this \u201casylum-village\u201d was the Club Paul-Balvet, a cooperative structure whose participants all convened, deliberated on administrative responsibilities, and proposed creative activities like celebrations, plays, dances, and meetings. The hospital had its own printing press, community journal, theater, library, and cinema. This organizational structure, conducive to creative endeavors\u2014like those of Auguste Forestier and Marguerite Sirvins\u2014would impact French artist Jean Dubuffet\u2019s conceptualization of \u201cArt Brut.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This three-day film series explores approaches to mental health care rooted in community building, self-management, and creativity echoing the institutional psychotherapy developed at Saint-Alban. The program starts with a short film by Fran\u00e7ois Pain on F\u00e9lix Guattari and a docufiction by Abdenour Zahzah on Frantz Fanon; Guattari and Fanon were both psychiatrists and political activists trained and influenced by Tosquelles. On Saturday afternoon, the program dwells on the possibilities of schooling the \u201cmaladjusted\u201d* through reinvented structures of care and knowledge, featuring a short fiction film by Dani\u00e8le Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub and a documentary by Renaud Victor made with special education leader Fernand Deligny. On Saturday evening, a selection of shorts highlights the role of art in counteracting isolation inside and outside of psychiatric hospitals. The program ends with the New York premiere of Mireia Sallar\u00e8s\u2019s film devoted to the forgotten legacy of Tosquelles in Catalonia, Spain, and beyond.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Co-curated by Mathilde Walker-Billaud, AFAM Curator of Programs and Engagement\u00a0 and Sonia Epstein, MoMI Curator Science & Technology\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

FRIDAY JUNE 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

6:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

With filmmakers Abdenour Zahzah and Fran\u00e7ois Pain in person<\/span><\/p>\n

Abdenour Zahzah, <\/span>True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956<\/i><\/strong>, 2024, 90 min<\/span><\/p>\n

Preceded by Fran\u00e7ois Pain, <\/span>F\u00e9lix\u2019s Couch<\/i> (\u201cLe divan de F\u00e9lix<\/i>\u201d)<\/strong>, 1985, 17 min\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

SATURDAY JUNE 22<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fernand Deligny & Renaud Victor, <\/span>This Kid, There<\/i> (\u201cCe gamin, l\u00e0\u201d)<\/i><\/strong>, 1975, 88 min\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Preceded by Dani\u00e8le Huillet et Jean-Marie Straub, <\/span>En Rach\u00e2chan<\/i>t<\/i><\/strong>,<\/strong> 1982, 7 min<\/span><\/p>\n

More information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

6:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shorts Program: Captive Feast\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With filmmakers Theo Jean Cuthand and Gernot Wieland in person<\/span><\/p>\n

Mario Ruspoli,<\/span> Captive Feast<\/i> (\u201cLa f\u00eate prisonni\u00e8re\u201d<\/i>)<\/strong>, 1962, 17 min\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gernot Wieland, <\/span>Bird in Italian Is Uccello<\/i>,<\/strong> 2021, 14 min<\/span><\/p>\n

Pia Borg and Edward Lawrenson, <\/span>Abandoned Goods<\/i><\/strong>,<\/strong> 2014, 36 min<\/span><\/p>\n

Theo Jean Cuthand, <\/span>Love & Numbers<\/i><\/strong>,<\/strong> 2014, 7:46 min<\/span><\/p>\n

More information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

SUNDAY JUNE 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

5.30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

With filmmaker Mireia Sallar\u00e8s, exhibition co-curator Joana Mas\u00f3 and scholar Eric Fassin<\/p>\n

Mireia Sallar\u00e8s, <\/span>The Potential History of Francesc Tosquelles<\/i><\/strong>,<\/strong> 2021, 135 min<\/span><\/p>\n

More information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Tickets and location:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This film series is presented at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) located at 36-01 35th Ave, Queens, New York<\/span><\/p>\n

Tickets are $15 \/ $11 senior and students \/ $9 youth (ages 3\u201317) \/ free for MoMI members at the Senior\/Student level and above \/\u00a0free for AFAM members (email\u00a0membership@folkartmuseum.org<\/a> to request discount code). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. A full series pass can be purchased here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information or to order tickets, please visit<\/span> MoMI\u2019s website<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Images:<\/b><\/p>\n

Left: Pia Borg and Edward Lawrenson,\u00a0Abandoned Goods<\/i><\/strong><\/span>, 2014, film still; <\/span>Right: Fran\u00e7ois Pain, <\/span>F\u00e9lix\u2019s Couch<\/span><\/i>, 1985, film still<\/span><\/p>\n

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Credits:<\/strong> <\/i><\/p>\n

Presented jointly by MoMI and AFAM, lead support for this film series is provided by the Institut Ramon Llull, Nina Beaty, Susan Weiler, and the Anthony Petullo Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Goethe-Institut New York, the <\/span><\/i>Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>the Art Dealers Association of America Foundation, the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Organized in conjunction with the exhibition <\/span>Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut<\/i><\/b><\/a> at the American Folk Art Museum, New York, from April 12 to August 18, 2024. Co-organized by the Centre de Cultura Contempor\u00e0nia de Barcelona (CCCB) and Les Abattoirs, Mus\u00e9e\u2013Frac Occitanie Toulouse, this four-venue collaboration was previously presented at the Abattoirs, CCCB, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda in Madrid. It developed from a research project entitled \u201cEl llegat oblidat de Francesc Tosquelles\u201d (The forgotten legacy of Francesc Tosquelles), co-produced by the Mir-Puig Private Foundation (Barcelona), the University of Barcelona, and Fundaci\u00f3 Antoni T\u00e0pies (Barcelona).<\/span><\/p>\n

*Maladjustment is a term used in psychology to refer the “inability to react successfully and satisfactorily to the demand of one’s environment”<\/span><\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"day":"21","month":"Jun","year":"2024","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/radical-institutions-and-experimental-psychiatry-the-legacy-of-francesc-tosquelles-on-film\/"},"118":{"ID":32781,"post_type":"programs","title":"Institutional Psychotherapy: Legacy and Constellations of Francesc Tosquelles","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2024-03-27 15:49:47","name":"institutional-psychotherapy-legacy-and-constellations-of-francesc-tosquelles","parent":0,"modified":"2024-09-24 01:22:12","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":32782,"id":32782,"title":"Tosquelles banner2","filename":"Tosquelles-banner2.png","filesize":2605303,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tosquelles-banner2.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/institutional-psychotherapy-legacy-and-constellations-of-francesc-tosquelles\/tosquelles-banner2\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"tosquelles-banner2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":32781,"date":"2024-03-27 15:44:58","modified":"2024-03-27 15:44:58","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\/2024\/03\/Tosquelles-banner2-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tosquelles-banner2-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tosquelles-banner2-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tosquelles-banner2.png","large-width":2100,"large-height":1050,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tosquelles-banner2-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tosquelles-banner2-2048x1024.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1024}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tosquelles-banner2.png","headline":"Institutional Psychotherapy: Legacy and Constellations of Francesc Tosquelles","di_date":"2024-05-03","excerpt":"

A two-day symposium exploring the legacy of Francesc Tosquelles and presenting new research at the intersection of avant-garde psychiatry, radical politics and arts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

Watch a recording of Panel 2 online<\/span> here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch a recording of Panel 3 online<\/span> here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch a recording of Panel 4 online<\/span> here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch a recording of Closing Conversation online<\/span> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","start_time":"11:00 am","end_time":"5:00 pm","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

Situated at the intersection of art and psychiatry, the exhibition <\/span>Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut <\/span><\/i>explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. After fleeing the Nationalist government of Franco amidst the Spanish Civil War, Tosquelles arrived in 1940 at the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in Southern France, where he devised a series of revolutionary psychiatric practices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Developed in conjunction with this four-venue international exhibition, the symposium \u201cInstitutional Psychotherapy: The Legacy and Constellations of Francesc Tosquelles\u201d\u00a0 will draw from the themes and contributions featured in the multi-author English accompanying publication (edited by AFAM\u2019s exhibition co-curators Carles Guerra, Joana Mas\u00f3, Val\u00e9rie Rousseau and Edward Dioguardi), as well as by Joana Mas\u00f3\u2019s English anthology on Tosquelles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Conceived as an interdisciplinary dialogue, this online symposium will chart the history of the Saint-Alban \u201casylum-village,\u201d while studying past and present significance of \u201cinstitutional psychotherapy\u201d. Akin to Tosquelles\u2019 methodologies and epistemologies, the symposium will not offer a doctrinal survey about pioneering psychiatry and occupational therapy. Instead, the presentations will guide us through experiences, artworks and archival materials to reexamine mental health history and reconsider it in a larger political, social, and cultural context.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aside from the exhibition co-curators,\u00a0Joana Mas\u00f3, Carles Guerra, Val\u00e9rie Rousseau, and Edward Dioguardi<\/strong>,<\/b>\u00a0this symposium will gather speakers from Europe and the United States\u2013scholars and professionals from the fields of French studies, law & social sciences, psychiatry and medical history, Western art and media studies, including\u00a0Liat Ben-Moshe, Kaira M. Caba\u00f1as, Amanda Cachia, Eric Fassin, Fountain House, Lewis Gordon, The Greene Clinic, Jean Khalfa, Raphael Koenig, W.J.T. Mitchell, Allison Morehead, Suzanne Hudson, Camille Robcis, B\u00e1rbara Rodriguez Mu\u00f1oz, Martin Summers, Emily Watlington,\u00a0Robert Young\u00a0and Hannah Zeavin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first day of the symposium will examine the ways in which Tosquelles\u2019s psychiatric, political, and cultural initiatives contribute to the reflection about mental health care and<\/span> the search for disability justice. A second part will put in perspective the artistic and intellectual life at the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital and the legacy of Tosquelles\u2019s institutional psychotherapy in the arts and humanities. Closing remarks by W.J.T. Mitchell and Hannah Zeavin will address mental illness from a critical perspective.\u202f\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Curated by Mathilde Walker-Billaud, AFAM Curator of Programs and Engagement<\/p>\n

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Accessibility:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This virtual program is free for all to attend. It will be recorded and shared on our website, Vimeo and YouTube pages.<\/p>\n

All sessions feature closed captioning in English, and live ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation.<\/p>\n

For specific accommodation questions or needs, please contact us at least five days prior to the program at publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.<\/p>\n

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

Day 1 \u2013 Thursday May 2nd<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00 am – 5.30 pm EDT<\/p>\n

Institutional Psychotherapy: An Intertwined History of Psychiatry and Politics<\/em><\/p>\n

11:00 – 12:30 pm EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n

KEYNOTE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unearthing Tosquelles: The Research that Brought up a Figure Semi Buried in History<\/em><\/p>\n

With Tosquelles<\/em> exhibition co-curators Joana Mas\u00f3 & Carles Guerra<\/p>\n

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n

PANEL 1<\/p>\n

Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole Psychiatric Hospital: A Laboratory of Political Resistance?<\/em><\/p>\n

With Camille Robcis, Eric Fassin, Jean Khalfa & Robert Young<\/p>\n

Introduced and moderated by Lewis Gordon<\/p>\n

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n

PANEL 2<\/p>\n

From Disalienating to Decarcerating Mental Illness in the United States<\/em><\/p>\n

With Martin Summers, the Greene Clinic & Fountain House and Liat Ben-Moshe<\/p>\n

Introduced and moderated by Edward Dioguardi<\/p>\n

DAY 2: Friday May 3rd<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00 am – 5.30 pm EDT<\/p>\n

Institutional Psychotherapy: An Intertwined History of Psychiatry and Culture<\/em><\/p>\n

11:00 am -1:00 pm EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n

PANEL 3<\/p>\n

Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole Psychiatric Hospital: A Laboratory for the Arts?<\/em><\/p>\n

With Raphael Koenig, Val\u00e9rie Rousseau & Kaira M. Caba\u00f1as<\/p>\n

Introduced and moderated by Allison Morehead<\/p>\n

1:30 pm -3:30 pm EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n

PANEL 4<\/p>\n

From Occupational Therapy to Disability Art<\/em><\/p>\n

With Suzanne Hudson, B\u00e1rbara Rodr\u00edguez Mu\u00f1oz, Amanda Cachia<\/p>\n

Introduced and moderated by Emily Watlington<\/p>\n

4:00 pm -5:30 pm EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLOSING CONVERSATION<\/p>\n

From a Curse to a Critical Perspective<\/em><\/p>\n

With W. J. T. Mitchell & Hannah Zeavin<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for a full schedule including speaker abstracts and biographies. For questions, please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.<\/p>\n

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REGISTRATION<\/strong><\/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 <\/span>publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Register for DAY 1 on May 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/institutional-psychotherapy-legacy-and-constellations-day-1-tickets-871954919637?aff=oddtdtcreator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Register for DAY 2 on May 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/institutional-psychotherapy-legacy-and-constellations-day-2-tickets-871976002697<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n

The symposium \u201cInstitutional Psychotherapy: Legacy and Constellations of Francesc Tosquelles\u201d is presented in partnership with the Remarque Institute at NYU, and The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lead support for this program is provided by the Institut Ramon Llull, Nina Beaty, Susan Weiler, and the Anthony Petullo Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Art Dealers Association of America Foundation, the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Co-organized by the Centre de Cultura Contempor\u00e0nia de Barcelona (CCCB) and Les Abattoirs, Mus\u00e9e\u2013 Frac Occitanie Toulouse, this four-venue collaboration was previously presented at the Abattoirs, CCCB, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda in Madrid. It developed from a research project entitled \u201cEl llegat oblidat de Francesc Tosquelles\u201d (The forgotten legacy of Francesc Tosquelles), co-produced by the Mir-Puig Private Foundation (Barcelona), the University of Barcelona, and Fundaci\u00f3 Antoni T\u00e0pies (Barcelona).<\/span><\/p>\n

Images:<\/b><\/p>\n

Left: Aerial View of the Saint-Alban Psychiatric Hospital,<\/span> c. 1960, photographic reproduction. Baldran Collection, Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, <\/span>Right: Judith Scott, Untitled<\/span>, <\/b>1989, fiber, string, yarn, 18 x 10 x 10 in. Greenberg\u2013Lee Collection<\/span><\/p>\n

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Join co-curators behind the scenes of <\/span>Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut <\/span><\/i>to learn about the artworks, artists and themes included in this exhibition.<\/span><\/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":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

Join us for a conversation about the making of the exhibition <\/span>Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> which<\/span> explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. The four curators will walk us through the exhibition\u2019s artworks, archival documents and films, opening up a new window on psychiatry and its connections to art, literature and French theory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In dialogue with AFAM\u2019s Senior Curator of Self-Taught Art & Art Brut Val\u00e9rie Rousseau,\u00a0 Joana Mas\u00f3 and Carles Guerra<\/span> will first introduce us to the history of Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in Southern France, which also became during World War II a refuge for political dissidents and intellectuals. In this \u201casylum-village,\u201d Tosquelles pioneered revolutionary psychiatric practices (that came to be known as \u201cinstitutional psychotherapy\u201d) with the aspiration to \u201ccure\u201d mental institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The curators will reveal the extraordinary variety of materials included in the Museum\u2019s gallery, including artworks produced by Saint-Alban\u2019s patients (among them, Auguste Forestier, Marguerite Sirvins, Aimable Jayet) and various figures central to this history, like Antonin Artaud and Jean Dubuffet\u2014whose conceptualization of \u201cart brut\u201d in 1945 was impacted by Saint-Alban\u2019s creative output.<\/span><\/p>\n

Val\u00e9rie Rousseau will close the program with Edward Dioguardi, <\/span>Anthony Petullo Foundation and Weiler Curatorial Fellow<\/span>. They will examine the history of mental health in the United States through the works of North American artists\u2014among them Joseph Roth, Myrllen, Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez, Judith Scott, and Gabriel Mitchell.<\/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 <\/span>publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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About the speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edward Dioguard<\/strong>i<\/strong> is the <\/span>Anthony Petullo Foundation and Weiler Curatorial Fellow<\/span> at the American Folk Art Museum and a Ph.D. candidate in the Comparative Literature department at New York University. Publications appear in <\/span>The Brooklyn Rail<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>e-flux<\/span><\/i>, and in the <\/span>European Journal of Psychoanalysis<\/span><\/i>, where he now also serves as a peer referee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carles Guerra<\/strong> is an artist, art critic, independent researcher and curator who has extensively worked in the field of modern and contemporary art, critical pedagogies and museum studies. Last Fall 2023<\/span> Guerra was the inaugural visiting professor at the program for Catalan Studies hosted by t<\/span>he Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU Arts & Science (CEMS) in collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull<\/span>. His latest research project has dealt with Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles, a figure at the crossroad of anti-authoritarian policies, the emergence of Institutional Psychotherapy and the Postwar European cultural avantgarde. Since 2022 he is a founding member of Ateneu Tosquelles (Fundaci\u00f3 CPB Serveis de Salut Mental) in Barcelona. Guerra teaches film and museum studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is currently a member of the Coll\u00e8ge de photographie et image anim\u00e9e of the Centre Nationale d’Arts Plastiques CNAP in France. He is former director of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Chief Curator of MACBA Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona and executive director of the Fundaci\u00f3 Antoni T\u00e0pies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joana Mas\u00f3<\/strong> is a literary critic whose work focuses on the crossover between literature, art, and philosophy. She is a senior lecturer at Barcelona University, and the UNESCO chair, Women, Development and Cultures. She has curated exhibitions and published books on art, literature and philosophy, like H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cixous\u2019s essays in <\/span>Poetry in Painting. Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics<\/span><\/i> (Edinbourg UP, 2012) and Jacques Derrida\u2019s, <\/span>Thinking out of sight. Writings on the Arts of the Visible<\/span><\/i> (The University of Chicago Press, 2021). Since 2017, she has coordinated the research project \u201cThe forgotten legacy of Fran\u00e7ois Tosquelles\u201d, and she has published <\/span>Tosquelles. Curing the Institutions<\/span><\/i> (Semiotext(e) and Divided, 2025).<\/span><\/p>\n

Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/strong>, Ph.D., is Curatorial Chair for Exhibitions & Senior Curator at the American Folk Art Museum, New York. She overviewed critically acclaimed exhibitions, notably <\/span>Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic<\/span><\/i>(2014), <\/span>When the Curtain Never Comes Down <\/span><\/i>(AAMC award, 2015), <\/span>Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet<\/span><\/i> (2015)<\/span>, <\/b>Photo|Brut <\/span><\/i>(2021), <\/span>Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered<\/span><\/i> (2022), as well as projects on the legacy of Francesc Tosquelles, the concomitance of psychiatric and artistic avant-gardes (FACE Foundation Curatorial Fellowship \u201c\u00c9tant Donn\u00e9s,\u201d 2019), neurodiversity (IMLS, 2023\u20132025), art brut literature, art environments, and artists like William Edmondson, Eugen Gabritschevsky, and Madalena Santos Reinbolt.She authored <\/span>Bill Traylor<\/span><\/i> (FILAF award, 2018), \u201cRegarder par les failles de ce monde: Intersections de l\u2019art brut et de l\u2019art populaire\u201d (<\/span>Les cahiers du Mus\u00e9e national d\u2019art moderne<\/span><\/i>, 2024), and guest edited the issue \u201cThe Fate of Self-Taught Art\u201d (<\/span>The Brooklyn Rail<\/span><\/i>, 2018). In 2022, she participated in the seminar \u201cShowing\/Searching: art brut and its archival impulse\u201d of the<\/span> Biblioth\u00e8que Kandinsky Summer University (Centre Pompidou, Paris)<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Left: Romain Vigouroux, Francesc Tosquelles on the Roof of a Building at the Saint-Alban Psychiatric Hospital, Holding a Sculpture by Auguste Forestier<\/em>, 1947, gelatin silver print, 7 x 4 7\/8 in. Collection Family Ou-Rabah Tosquelles. Right: Marguerite Sirvins, Untitled, c. 1941, embroidered silk thread on fabric, 8 5\/8 x 10 in. Collection Famille Ou-Rabah Tosquelles.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/935887932?share=copy","day":"16","month":"Apr","year":"2024","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-francesc-tosquelles-avant-garde-psychiatry-and-the-birth-of-art-brut\/"},"128":{"ID":32095,"post_type":"programs","title":"Autobiographical Landscapes: Gary Tyler in Conversation with Allison Glenn","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2023-11-08 18:00:36","name":"autobiographical-landscapes-gary-tyler-in-conversation-with-allison-glenn","parent":0,"modified":"2024-03-21 16:33:53","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":32098,"id":32098,"title":"Untitled design (21)","filename":"Untitled-design-21.png","filesize":2082915,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-design-21.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/autobiographical-landscapes-gary-tyler-in-conversation-with-allison-glenn\/untitled-design-21\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"untitled-design-21","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":32095,"date":"2023-11-08 18:02:27","modified":"2023-11-08 18:02:27","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\/2023\/11\/Untitled-design-21-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-design-21-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-design-21-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-design-21.png","large-width":2100,"large-height":1050,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-design-21-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-design-21-2048x1024.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1024}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GT_5.13.234506.jpg","headline":"Autobiographical Landscapes: Gary Tyler in Conversation with Allison Glenn","di_date":"2024-03-18","excerpt":"

Join artist Gary Tyler and art writer Allison Glenn for a conversation about racial equality, self-representation, and resistance.\u00a0<\/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":"

The exhibition <\/span>Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North <\/span><\/i><\/a>provides overlooked reflections of Black experience\u00a0 with objects that range from the late seventeenth century to the pre\u2013Civil War era. One of them is an extraordinary autobiographical landscape representing Pedro Tovookan Parris\u2019s memories of his voyage from the eastern coast of Africa to the United States. This watercolor survives as a singular pictorial document, recording firsthand the memory of the displacements caused by slavery. Another artwork in the exhibition is Sarah Ann Major Harris<\/span>\u2019 <\/b>genealogical sampler where she records the details of her family history. Made at a time when she and other Black students in Connecticut were barred from attending school, this needlework is a powerful emblem of one young woman\u2019s bravery and perseverance in the face of racism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drawing from his familial knowledge of textiles, artist Gary Tyler creates quilt tableaux to reflect on his life\u2019s journey: from being wrongly accused of murder at age 16 in 1974 to his release from Louisiana\u2019s Angola prison 41 years later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this online program, Tyler will be in conversation with Allison Glenn, a curator and writer working at the intersection of art and public space. The speakers will discuss Tyler\u2019s recent productions for his first solo exhibition \u201cWe Are the Willing\u201d which was curated by Glenn in conjunction with <\/span>Public Matter: New Forms<\/span><\/i><\/a> at the Library Street Collective in Detroit in the summer 2023. This exhibition gave the artist the opportunity to think about his leadership and experience as president of the prison drama club for 28 years. Tyler relies on the space of performance to increase literacy, self-expression and agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this program, the textile objects, landscape paintings and archives on view in the gallery will serve as a springboard for a broader consideration of the aftermath of slavery, and the persistence of anti-Black violence and racism in the present. Looking at the ways African American artists have revisited and reclaimed their own images and histories, this conversation will provide critical insights on racial equality, self-representation, and resistance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About the speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gary Tyler<\/strong> is a fiber artist, living and working in Los Angeles, California. For over four decades, Tyler has been working at the intersection of art and social justice, teaching himself how to quilt to support the Angola Prison Hospice program, where he was a volunteer. For three decades, Tyler was the President of the Angola Prison drama program, using the position to promote a culture of community, civic responsibility, and optimism. At the age of 16, Tyler was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. Though his case was the subject of international outcry, the artist spent 42 years in Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana, before being released at the age of 57. Although his artistic practice was born out of injustice, it eminently generates hope. Tyler is a 2019 and 2020 Art Matters Awardee, and his work is in the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C<\/span><\/p>\n

Allison Glenn<\/strong> is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space, through public art and special projects, biennials and major new commissions by a wide range of contemporary artists. She is also a Visiting Curator in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Tulsa. Previous roles include Co-Curator of\u202fCounterpublic Triennial 2023 and Senior Curator at New York’s Public Art Fund, where she proposed and initially developed\u202fFred Eversley: Parabolic Light, on view through August 2024; Guest Curator at the Speed Art Museum, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Prospect New Orleans international art triennial Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp. She received dual master\u2019s degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy, and a Bachelor of Fine Art Photography with a co-major in Urban Studies from Wayne State University in Detroit. Glenn is a member of Madison Square Park Conservancy\u2019s Public Art Consortium Collaboration Committee, and sits on the Board of Directors for ARCAthens, a curatorial and artist residency program based in Athens, Greece and the Bronx, New York.<\/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 <\/span>publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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

Left: Sarah Ann Major Harris (later Fayerweather) (1812-1878), <\/span>Sampler, <\/b>Norwich Area, Connecticut, c. 1826-1828, Silk on linen, 20 3\/8 x 19 1\/3 in. <\/span>Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, museum purchase with funds drawn from the Centenary Fund, 2017.0032 A, B. \/ <\/span>Middle: Installation view of <\/span>We Are the Willing<\/span><\/i>, Gary Tyler\u2019s solo exhibition, July 8th-September 6th 2023, Library Street Collective, Detroit. Courtesy of the artist and Library Street Collective. \/ Right: <\/span>Gary Tyler in the studio preparing for his exhibition at Library Street Collective, opening on July 8th, 2023. Images by Dorian Hill. Courtesy of the artist and Library Street Collective.<\/span><\/p>\n

Major support for this exhibition is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, with additional support from, the American Folk Art Society, Citi, the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions, David and Dixie De Luca, Susan and James Hunnewell, the Robert Lehman Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and Elizabeth and Irwin Warren.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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A two-day symposium showcasing new research and curatorial approaches to folk art, early American history and issues of anti-Black racism. *Dates: Friday, February 23, 2024<\/strong> and Friday, March 8, 2024<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch Day 1 Introductory Conversation<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch Day 1 Panel 1<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch Day 2 Panel 2<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch Day 2 Closing Conversation<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","start_time":"11:00 am","end_time":"4:00 pm","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

\u201cThe Picture Is Still Out There\u201d: Reframing Black Presence in the Collections of Early American Art and Material Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday, February 23, 2024 and Friday, March 8, 2024; <\/strong>Online Symposium, 11:00-4pm EDT; Virtual; free with registration<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw, is still out there,\u201d says one of Toni Morrison\u2019s characters in her masterpiece Beloved. Reflecting on this process of Black \u201cre-memory,\u201d the symposium \u201cThe Picture Is Still Out There\u2019: Reframing Black Presence in the Collections of Early American Art and Material Culture\u201d presents curatorial practices and scholarship that affirm African American presence in early American art and material culture.<\/p>\n

The two-day online symposium is organized in connection with the exhibition Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North<\/em><\/a>, on view from November 15, 2023\u2013March 24, 2024. Drawing inspiration from the research behind this exhibition, the symposium serves as a platform for a broader consideration of museum practices in relation to folk art, early American history, and issues of anti-Black racism.<\/p>\n

Art scholars, museum curators, and public historians \u2013 including exhibition co-curators Emelie Gevalt, RL Watson and Sad\u00e9 Ayorinde <\/strong>as well as Janine Boldt, Alexandra Chan, Anne Strachan Cross, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Michael Hartman, Elizabeth S. Humphrey, Tiffany Momon, Marc Howard Ross, Jennifer Van Horn <\/strong>and Jill Vaum Rothschild<\/strong> \u2013 are invited to gather, share, and discuss their efforts in celebrating and reframing the early contributions of African American individuals to the field of art. Talks will consider early material culture from global and historically marginalized perspectives, acknowledging gaps in history, knowledge, and care. This virtual symposium will also present new methods of preserving, acquiring, and exhibiting that address colonialist and racist ideologies while rethinking accountability, transparency, and language choices in interpretation. This will be a unique opportunity to approach the colonial past and its continuities in museums and public institutions.<\/p>\n

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SCHEDULE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DAY 1 – FEBRUARY 23rd, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

INTRODUCTORY CONVERSATION<\/strong>
\n11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT<\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/p>\n

Jennifer Van Horn<\/strong>, Associate Prof. of Art History and History, University of Delaware
\nGwendolyn DuBois Shaw<\/strong>, Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term, Associate Professor of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

SESSION 1<\/strong>
\n1:30 pm – 3:30 pm EDT<\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/p>\n

Elizabeth S. Humphrey<\/strong>, former Curatorial Assistant and Manager of Student Programs, Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Delaware
\nMichael Hartman<\/strong>, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
\nJanine Yorimoto Boldt<\/strong>, Associate Curator of American Art at The Chazen Museum of Art<\/p>\n

Moderator<\/strong>: Anne Strachan Cross, Assistant Teaching Professor of American Art, Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n

DAY 2 – MARCH 8th, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

SESSION 2 <\/strong>11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT<\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/p>\n

Alexandra Chan<\/strong>, archaeologist, member of the academic advisory board of the Royall House and Slave Quarters, , a National Historic Landmark and museum in Medford, Massachusetts, and author of Slavery in the Age of Reason: Archaeology at a New England Farm (2015)
\nMarc Howard Ross<\/strong>, William Rand Kenan, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College, and author of Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory (2018), which begins with a study of the President\u2019s House\/Slavery Memorial at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia
\nTiffany Momon<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History and Mellon Fellow at Sewanee, University of the South, founder and co-Director of Black Craftsmanship Digital Archive<\/p>\n

Moderator<\/strong>: Jill Vaum Rothschild, Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum<\/p>\n

CLOSING CONVERSATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT<\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/p>\n

Emelie Gevalt<\/strong>, Curatorial Chair for Collections and Curator of Folk Art, AFAM
\nRL Watson<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, Lake Forest College
\nSad\u00e9 Ayorinde<\/strong>, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum<\/p>\n

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

Left: <\/span>John Potter and Family<\/span><\/i>, <\/i><\/b>Matunuck, Rhode Island, c. 1740, oil on wood, 31 1\/4 x 64 1\/4 in.\u00a0 Newport Historical Society. \/ <\/span>Right:<\/span> Thomas W. Commeraw (c. 1771-1823), Two-Gallon Jar<\/span>, <\/b>New York City,\u00a0 c. 1793-1819, salt-glazed stoneware with cobalt decoration <\/span>H. 9 1\/4 in., Diam. 11 in. <\/span>Private Collection<\/span><\/p>\n

Major support for this exhibition is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, with additional support from, the American Folk Art Society, Citi, the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions, David and Dixie De Luca, Susan and James Hunnewell, the Robert Lehman Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and Elizabeth and Irwin Warren.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/916757204?share=copy","call_to_action":[{"call_to_action":false},{"call_to_action":false}],"day":"08","month":"Mar","year":"2024","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/the-picture-is-still-out-there-reframing-black-presence-in-the-collections-of-early-american-art-and-material-culture-2024-elizabeth-and-irwin-warren-folk-art-symposium\/"},"136":{"ID":32484,"post_type":"programs","title":"2024 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2024-01-12 20:41:56","name":"2024-anne-hill-blanchard-uncommon-artists-lecture","parent":0,"modified":"2024-03-11 16:29:56","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":32520,"id":32520,"title":"UAL Banner 3","filename":"UAL-Banner-3.png","filesize":3040135,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/UAL-Banner-3.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/2024-anne-hill-blanchard-uncommon-artists-lecture\/ual-banner-3\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"ual-banner-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":32484,"date":"2024-01-17 15:53:08","modified":"2024-01-17 15:53:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/UAL-Banner-3-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/UAL-Banner-3-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/UAL-Banner-3-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/UAL-Banner-3.png","large-width":2000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/UAL-Banner-3-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/UAL-Banner-3.png","2048x2048-width":2000,"2048x2048-height":1000}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/UAL-Banner.png","headline":"2024 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture","di_date":"2024-03-03","excerpt":"

Join us online for the 2024 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture and learn more about artists Janet Sobel, Curtis Cuffie and I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih, with talks by Natalie Dup\u00eacher, Ciar\u00e1n Finlayson and Wulan Dirgantoro.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch a recording of this program online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"3:00 pm","end_time":"5:00 pm","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

Join us online for a new edition of the Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From New York City to Bali, this year\u2019s lecture will guide us through the unique trajectories of artists <\/span>Janet Sobel<\/strong>, <\/span>Curtis Cuffie<\/strong> and <\/span>I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih<\/strong>. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this program will highlight the contributions of self-taught artists in the field of modern and contemporary art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers include art historian and curator Natalie Dup\u00eacher on new approaches to Janet Sobel\u2019s abstraction, writer Ciar\u00e1n Finlayson on Curtis Cuffie\u2019s ephemeral \u201csculptures for space,\u201d and art historian Wulan Dirgantoro on I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih\u2019s grotesque female bodies.\u00a0<\/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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

3:00 p.m. EST Welcome & Opening Remarks<\/span><\/p>\n

3:15 p.m. EST\u00a0 Natalie Dup\u00eacher |\u00a0 Janet Sobel<\/span><\/p>\n

3:45 p.m. EST Ciar\u00e1n Finlayson | Curtis Cuffie<\/span><\/p>\n

4:15 p.m. EST Wulan Dirgantoro | I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih<\/span><\/p>\n

4.45 p.m. EST Q&A<\/span><\/p>\n

The 2024 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture will be held online via Zoom. <\/span>Space is limited; advance registration is required.\u00a0 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 <\/span>publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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About the Speakers: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Natalie Dup\u00eacher<\/strong> is the Associate Curator of Modern Art at the Menil Collection, Houston. In this capacity, she oversees the museum\u2019s landmark holdings of historical Surrealism, in addition to mounting temporary exhibitions. She recently curated <\/span>Janet Sobel: All-Over<\/span><\/i> (2024) and <\/span>Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition<\/span><\/i> (2021-23), which was co-organized by the Menil Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Kunstmuseum Bern. She holds a PhD from Princeton University and an MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ciar\u00e1n Finlayson<\/strong> is a writer and editor based in New York. His writing on art and music has appeared in publications including Blank Forms, Artforum, Bookforum, Kunst und Politik<\/em>, and in exhibition catalogs for museums including the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. He is Senior Editor at Triple Canopy and the author of Perpetual Slavery<\/em>, on the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon (Floating Opera, 2023).<\/p>\n

Dr. Wulan Dirgantoro<\/strong> is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her publications including <\/span>Feminisms and Indonesian Contemporary Art: Defining Experiences<\/span><\/i> (Amsterdam University Press, 2017) and \u201cAfter 1965: Historical Violence and Strategies of Representation in Indonesian Visual Arts\u201d in <\/span>Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History<\/span><\/i> (ANU Press, 2022).<\/span><\/p>\n

Images:\u00a0 <\/span>Left: Janet Sobel,<\/span> Milky Way,<\/span><\/i> 1945. Enamel on canvas, 44 7\/8 \u00d7 29 7\/8 in. (114 \u00d7 75.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the artist’s family. <\/span>Center: Curtis Cuffie, Untitled,\u00a0 ca. 1994\u201396. Photography: Katy Abel, ca. 1994\u201396 <\/span>Right: IGAK Murniasih, <\/span>Thumb<\/span><\/i>, n.d., cotton and mixed media, 190 x 125 x 90 cm. Image courtesy of Gajah Gallery Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/919657061?share=copy","day":"03","month":"Mar","year":"2024","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/2024-anne-hill-blanchard-uncommon-artists-lecture\/"},"142":{"ID":32081,"post_type":"programs","title":"Notes on Style: A Discussion with BlackMass on Portraiture and Personhood","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2023-11-08 17:39:37","name":"notes-on-style-a-discussion-with-blackmass-on-portraiture-and-personhood","parent":0,"modified":"2025-06-10 19:01:38","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":32082,"id":32082,"title":"BMPArchive_img01","filename":"BMPArchive_img01.jpeg","filesize":134168,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BMPArchive_img01.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/notes-on-style-a-discussion-with-blackmass-on-portraiture-and-personhood\/bmparchive_img01\/","alt":"","author":"27","description":"","caption":"","name":"bmparchive_img01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":32081,"date":"2023-11-08 17:36:27","modified":"2023-11-08 17:36:27","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1152,"height":2048,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BMPArchive_img01-150x150.jpeg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BMPArchive_img01-169x300.jpeg","medium-width":169,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BMPArchive_img01-768x1365.jpeg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":1365,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BMPArchive_img01.jpeg","large-width":1152,"large-height":2048,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BMPArchive_img01-864x1536.jpeg","1536x1536-width":864,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BMPArchive_img01.jpeg","2048x2048-width":1152,"2048x2048-height":2048}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BMPArchive_img01.jpeg","headline":"Notes on Style: A Discussion with BlackMass on Portraiture and Personhood","di_date":"2024-02-14","excerpt":"

Join the artist collective BlackMass for a conversation on portraiture and personhood in response to the themes and images within <\/span>Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click<\/span> here<\/a> to watch the conversation between Yusuf Hassan, Serubiri Moses and Kwam\u00e9 Sorrell.<\/span><\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:15 pm","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

\u201cWe are thinking about Black life. And when thinking of Black life, we can not escape the image; both public and private. Particularly, we are thinking of how Black folks want to be seen. What are the images we share? How do we want to be \u2018seen\u2019? Over the years, we [BlackMass] have been collecting photobooth and studio portraits. These portraits can be considered, vernacular images; images of everyday life. In these portraits, there are symbols of who these folks were, or at least who they want us to know them to be. The clues left behind by the sitter(s) are ones that are symbols for how THEY want us to remember them. Despite the \u201creality\u201d of the times, these folks wanted us to remember them at their best. In their best outfits, giving their best smile or stare, captured on film. Whether it be a hat, a suit or even the way they are posed, style is how we are to be seen by the world. Style goes beyond what one is wearing. Style is a lived experience expressed outwardly. Our individuality lies in our style. And for Black Americans, style has much to do with how we position ourselves in the world. And these images capture style the best. And freeze them in time. The consistency of a picture, somehow helps shape a unified image of Black life as it was and\/or is.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 BlackMass<\/span><\/p>\n

Yusuf Hassan<\/strong> and Kwam\u00e9 Sorrell<\/strong>, co-founders of the artist collective BlackMass, will present a visual essay based on images from their archives and the exhibition <\/span>Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North<\/span><\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This online lecture and conversation will take us through portraits of, and by African Americans, offering cross-generational and cross-geographical perspectives on Black life, drawing from both the current exhibition and archival materials collected by BlackMass.<\/span><\/p>\n

In dialogue with writer and curator\u00a0Serubiri Moses,<\/strong>\u00a0the artists will share how they have picked up the print medium to challenge the representational landscape and redefine portraiture, style and personhood.<\/p>\n

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Program Zine<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to read BlackMass’ program zine\u00a0Notes on Style: Portraiture and Personhood.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Video Recording<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to watch the conversation between Yusuf Hassan, Serubiri Moses and Kwam\u00e9 Sorrell.<\/p>\n

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About the Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

At once a structure of coherent units and a collection of disjointed parts, BlackMass<\/strong> invokes an aggregate of Blackness, of matter in resistance. Combining archival photographs and found print material with poetry and jazz music, BlackMass grapples with the blurred lines and idiosyncrasies which make up the collective improvisation of African diasporic culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Serubiri Moses<\/strong> is a Ugandan author and curator based in New York City. He is the author of several book chapters translated into five languages, and is the editor of Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World (Valiz, 2021). He currently serves as faculty in Art History at Hunter College, CUNY. He previously held teaching positions at New York University, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and the New Centre for Research and Practice, Dark Study, and Digital Earth Fellowship. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions at museums including MoMA PS1, Long Island City; Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and the Hessel Museum, Bard College, NY. He serves on the editorial team of e-flux journal.<\/p>\n

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Image:\u00a0<\/strong>Photographers unidentified, c. 1930-1970\u2019s, photographs. BlackMass Archive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Major support for this exhibition is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, with additional support from, the American Folk Art Society, Citi, the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions, David and Dixie De Luca, Susan and James Hunnewell, the Robert Lehman Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and Elizabeth and Irwin Warren.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/913466805?share=copy","day":"14","month":"Feb","year":"2024","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/notes-on-style-a-discussion-with-blackmass-on-portraiture-and-personhood\/"}}

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