{"15":{"ID":35244,"post_type":"programs","title":"Shades of Cotton: The Material Worlds of 19th-Century Textiles 12\/2\/25","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2025-09-04 18:47:41","name":"shades-of-cotton-the-material-worlds-of-19th-century-textiles-12-2-25","parent":0,"modified":"2025-12-15 23:38:53","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":35245,"id":35245,"title":"shadesofcotton_banner","filename":"shadesofcotton_banner.jpg","filesize":255008,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shadesofcotton_banner.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/shades-of-cotton-the-material-worlds-of-19th-century-textiles-12-2-25\/shadesofcotton_banner\/","alt":"","author":"30","description":"","caption":"","name":"shadesofcotton_banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":35244,"date":"2025-09-04 18:43:10","modified":"2025-09-04 18:43:10","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shadesofcotton_banner-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shadesofcotton_banner-300x169.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shadesofcotton_banner-768x432.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shadesofcotton_banner.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shadesofcotton_banner-1536x864.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shadesofcotton_banner.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shadesofcotton_banner.jpg","headline":"Shades of Cotton: The Material Worlds of 19th-Century Textiles","di_date":"2025-12-02","excerpt":"

Join historians Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Chloe Chapin for a conversation on the economic and symbolic value of cotton, from raw fiber to finished textile.<\/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","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

Focusing on the environment, the exhibition An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles<\/i> highlights the many facets of global material culture that emerged in the early modern period and profoundly shaped the United States in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.<\/p>\n

In her book Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World<\/i> (Duke University, 2021), historian Anna Arabindan-Kesson juxtaposes contemporary artworks with historical moments to explore the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the Black body in American culture.<\/p>\n

In her forthcoming book,\u00a0Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men<\/i>, designer and historian Chloe Chapin investigates the materiality and manufacture of men\u2019s suits between the American Revolution and the Civil War, including their linen (and then cotton) shirts, tracing material connections to land, labor, and the virtues of whiteness.<\/p>\n

Using a selection of textiles and quilts on view as a springboard, the two historians will present their research on cotton as material, process, and value, and explore the links between the American textile industry and the construction of identity.<\/p>\n

Introduced and moderated by Teju Adisa-Farrar, creator and host of the Black Material Geographies<\/i> podcast, this program offers an opportunity to examine how the materiality, production, and maintenance of cotton-based textiles have historically shaped and symbolized ideas of race, labor, and power in America.<\/p>\n

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

Anna Arabindan-Kesson<\/strong> holds the position of Associate Professor of Black Diasporic art with a joint appointment in the Departments of African American Studies and Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Her work emphasizes histories of race, empire, medicine, and migration from the 18<\/span>th<\/span> century to the contemporary. She practiced as a Registered Nurse before completing her PhD in African American Studies and Art History at Yale University. Her prizewinning monograph is called <\/span>Black Bodies White Gold: Art, Cotton and Commerce in the Atlantic World<\/span><\/i> (Duke University Press, 2021). Her second monograph <\/span>Empire States of Mind<\/span><\/i> is under contract with Duke University, and the book she edited, <\/span>Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean<\/span><\/i> will be published this year with Yale University Press. Anna is the director of<\/span> Art Hx<\/span><\/a> a platform for exploring art and medicine and sits on multiple arts Advisory Boards, in the US and internationally. She holds a Senior Research Fellowship at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, where she curated an exhibition with US-based photographer Sam Contis and has also been a Terra Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She is now a guest mentor and lecturer in the Arts Intensive Study Program led by artist Wael Shawky for the Fire Station Contemporary Art Space in Doha.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chloe Chapin<\/strong> is a designer, artist and fashion scholar. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Harvard University, and master’s degrees in history (Harvard), fashion and textile studies (FIT), and costume design (Yale). As a costume designer for over twenty years, Chloe worked on Broadway musicals, Shakespeare, opera, and downtown experimental dance theater. She has taught courses on fashion history, costume design, gender studies, museum studies, and anthropology at FIT, Parsons, Reed College, and Harvard University<\/span>.<\/span><\/i> Chloe is a former Fulbright Scholar<\/span> and has held fellowships at the Smithsonian, Mount Vernon, and Monticello. She works at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, MA with her dog Tiny. Her first book, <\/span>Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men, <\/span><\/i>comes<\/span> out with Oxford University Press in 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teju Adisa-Farrar<\/strong> is the founder and ecosystems director of the Black Fiber & Textile Network (bftn), a global community for Black people who grow, use, and work with plant-based fibers, textiles, natural dyes, and other sustainable materials. She is the creator and host of the Black Material Geographies Podcast and an environmental designer. A 2025 Craft Archive Fellow with the Center for Craft, Teju has collaborated with institutions such as the Smithsonian\u2019s Cooper Hewitt Museum and the United States Embassy of Botswana, and has spoken at colleges including Princeton University and the Rhode Island School of Design. As an independent researcher, her work explores and honors Black people\u2019s relationships to plant dyes, botanical pigments, natural fibers, and sustainable textiles. She creates opportunities and advocates for Black communities to connect with nature, agricultural art and ecosystems of survival. Teju is currently based on Mvskoke Land (Atlanta) and goes wherever else she is called.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Left: Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg (1612\u20131688), \u201cBleiche [bleach],\u201d from <\/span>Georgica Curiosa Aucta<\/span><\/i>, 1716. Munich Digitization Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Middle: Cornucopia and Dots Whitework Quilt, c. 1800\u20131820. Cotton, 95 x 89 in.<\/span><\/p>\n

Right: Flying Geese Quilt, c. 1870. Cotton, 82 x 68 in. Collection of the American Folk Art Museum<\/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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instructions for joining with a Zoom link and password will be provided by email upon registration confirmation under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Closed captioning will be provided in English.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\/cLUVpVxWus0","day":"02","month":"Dec","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/shades-of-cotton-the-material-worlds-of-19th-century-textiles-12-2-25\/"},"32":{"ID":35239,"post_type":"programs","title":"Living Libraries: Artists on the Geographies of Textiles 11\/5\/25","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2025-09-04 18:40:38","name":"living-libraries-artists-on-the-geographies-of-textiles-11-5-25","parent":0,"modified":"2025-11-08 01:05:41","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":35393,"id":35393,"title":"banner design - 1","filename":"Nov-5-program-2nd-banner-1.jpg","filesize":294920,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nov-5-program-2nd-banner-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/living-libraries-artists-on-the-geographies-of-textiles-11-5-25\/banner-design-1-9\/","alt":"","author":"30","description":"","caption":"","name":"banner-design-1-9","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":35239,"date":"2025-10-22 18:04:02","modified":"2025-10-22 18:04:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1295,"height":616,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nov-5-program-2nd-banner-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nov-5-program-2nd-banner-1-300x143.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":143,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nov-5-program-2nd-banner-1-768x365.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":365,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nov-5-program-2nd-banner-1.jpg","large-width":1295,"large-height":616,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nov-5-program-2nd-banner-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1295,"1536x1536-height":616,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nov-5-program-2nd-banner-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1295,"2048x2048-height":616}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nov-5-program-2nd-banner1-1.jpg","headline":"Living Libraries: Artists on the Geographies of Textiles","di_date":"2025-11-05","excerpt":"

Join us for a conversation about textile design and its connection with botany, geography, and global capitalism.<\/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","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

Made from natural sources and transformed through a range of artisanal and industrial processes, quilts carry deep geographical and cultural histories.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artist and scholar <\/span>Lauren Bartone<\/strong> traces the social, economic, and cultural histories of plants and trees, transforming them into both material and subject in her hand-dyed linen compositions inspired by landscapes and still-life traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Composed of photography interwoven with fiber and other natural threads, Mallory Lowe Mpoka<\/strong>\u2019s sculptures evoke a state of in-betweenness and interconnection across multiple times and spaces, drawing on her experiences in Africa, Europe, and North America.<\/p>\n

Grounded in a practice of drawing and craft, artist and curator <\/span>Swapnaa Tamhane<\/strong> collaborates with India-based artisans to deconstruct textile design processes and interrogate their colonial frameworks and genealogies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Introduced and moderated by curator <\/span>Julia Eilers Smith<\/strong>, this program invites the artists to share their practices and explore the ways they creatively engage with fibers, dyes, and patterns. Speakers will reflect on the textiles, botanical illustrations, raw fibers, and dye samples on view in the exhibition <\/span>An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles<\/span><\/i>, while tracing the intertwined histories of craftsmanship, botany, and globalisation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Lauren Bartone<\/strong>\u2019s hand dyed and sewn linen compositions intentionally play on conventions from landscape and still life painting, as well as textile history. This work is the product of material experimentation in the studio, alongside archival research about botanics, color, and the development of national identities. Her use of dyes with historical cultural significance, like cochineal, fustic, or indigo, is a reflection of her interdisciplinary approach and curiosity about the complex and sometimes contradictory ways meaning is created through imagery. Lauren Bartone (b. 1979, Greenwich CT) received her BA in Fine Art from UCLA and an<\/span> MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, as well as an MA in Education from UC Berkeley. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Italian Studies at UC Berkeley with a designated emphasis in folklore that considers the visual and material culture of the Italian diaspora. Her recent solo exhibitions include Ribbon Rack at Sarah Shepard Gallery (2025) De Rerum Natura at Park Life Gallery (2022) and 16 Tons (2018) at the College of Marin Gallery. Her work with the public involves community dialogue and collaborative map making in projects like A City in Maps (2015) and A Map for the Centennial of the Panama Pacific International Exposition with the de Young Museum of Art in San Francisco, as well as SF New City Atlas (2016) for the Art on Market Street poster series and Migration Map (2025) with the California Migration Museum and the San Francisco Arts Council. She has enjoyed residencies at sites like the Orto Botanico of Palermo, but also Kala and Art Works Downtown in the Bay Area. Her work has been generously supported with grants by the Pirkle Jones Foundation, the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, Simpson Fellowship, and the Global, International and Area Studies at UC, Berkeley, as well as the Barbieri Grant at Trinity College. Bartone lives and works in San Rafael, California.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mallory Lowe Mpoka<\/strong> (b.1996, lives and works in Montreal) enfolds photography into an expanded sensual experience to address notions of place, home and memorialization. Positioned by the violence of colonization that inflicts historical and cultural rupture on identity, the artist engages in a multi-faceted and fluid practice to explore the often elusive connections between real and imagined histories. Supplementing the materiality of the photograph with weaving, ceramics, dyeing and sculptural augmentation, Mpoka reanimates and resituates her family archives. Her work expresses a nomadic x through her incorporation of multiple time periods and spatial connections, inspired by her journeys between different continents \u2013 Africa, Europe and North. Mpoka was nominated for the Malick Sidib\u00e9 Prize (2022) and the New Generation Photography Award from the National Gallery of Canada (2024). She has exhibited internationally at Villa Romana (Italy), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada), 1-54 NYC (USA), and Savvy Contemporary (Germany), among others. In November 2024, she released her debut artist book \u201cArchitecture of the Self: What Lives Within Us\u201d. She will be presenting her debut solo show at Fonderie Darling for Momenta Biennale this fall 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

Swapnaa Tamhane<\/strong>\u2019s art practice is dedicated to drawing, making handmade paper, and working with the material histories of cotton and jute, while her curatorial interests explore feminist histories in India. She has an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices, Concordia University, Montreal, where she was recently an Artist-in-Residence, teaching within the Fibres department. Residencies have been held at ISCP, Brooklyn, Cit\u00e9 internationales des arts, Paris, Bemis Centre for Contemporary Art, Omaha, and Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria. She has been supported by SSHRC, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (2009), and she was an International Museum Fellow with the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in 2013. She has exhibited her work at Green Art Gallery, Dubai; Patel Brown, Toronto; Nature Morte, Delhi; articule, Montreal; Sculpture Park Jaipur; and Victoria & Albert Museum, Dundee, Scotland, with solo exhibitions at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia, and Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA. Tamhane has been shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Julia Eilers Smith<\/strong> is a curator, researcher, and writer based in Tio’tia:ke \/ Mooniyang \/ Montreal. Since 2019, she has served as Curator of Research at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, where she has organized over a dozen solo and group exhibitions, including <\/span>\u00c9sery Mond\u00e9sir: Choublak<\/span><\/i> (2024), <\/span>A Stage for Rebellion <\/span><\/i>(2023) and <\/span>In the No Longer Not Yet<\/span><\/i> (2019). Previously, she worked at ICA London and SBC Gallery in Montreal, and as an independent curator organized exhibitions and events at Ramapo College Art Galleries and the Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts in Mahwah, New Jersey, Galer\u00eda Liberia in Bogot\u00e1, and 80WSE Gallery in New York. Her writing has appeared in <\/span>e-flux<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Public Parking<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Le Sigh<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Espace, art actuel<\/span><\/i>. She holds a MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BA in Art History from Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Left: Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Interweaving, 2021-2022. Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

Middle: Lauren Bartone, cardinal, 2024. Linen dyed with cochineal, sewn, stretched and primed with Rabbit Skin Glue; 48″ x 36″ x 1.5″. Courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n

Right: Swapnaa Tamhane, Mobile Palace, 2019-2021. Mill-made cotton, appliqu\u00e9, beading, natural dyes; made with Salemamad Khatri and Mukesh, Avdhesh and Pragnesh Prajapati, and Bhavesh Rajnikant; dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist. Photograph by Paul Eekhoff\/ROM<\/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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Closed captioning will be provided in English.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\/qqCZ_-UXDts","day":"05","month":"Nov","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/living-libraries-artists-on-the-geographies-of-textiles-11-5-25\/"},"40":{"ID":35099,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: An Ecology of Quilts","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2025-06-13 21:14:02","name":"virtual-insights-an-ecology-of-quilts","parent":0,"modified":"2025-10-01 21:00:08","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":46,"name":"Virtual Tour","slug":"virtual-tour","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":46,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":35100,"id":35100,"title":"unnamed","filename":"unnamed-1.png","filesize":1873492,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-an-ecology-of-quilts\/unnamed-5\/","alt":"","author":"30","description":"","caption":"","name":"unnamed-5","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":35099,"date":"2025-06-13 21:12:14","modified":"2025-06-13 21:12:14","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1-300x169.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1-768x432.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1-1536x864.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed.png","headline":"Virtual Insights: An Ecology of Quilts","di_date":"2025-09-30","excerpt":"

Join curators Emelie Gevalt and Austin Losada for a behind-the-scenes look at <\/span>An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles <\/span><\/i>to learn more about the themes, the artworks, and the artists included in the 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":"

An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles<\/span><\/i><\/a> traces the relationship between the environment and traditional quilting practices through a selection of quilts from the Museum\u2019s rich collection, dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

The show\u2019s co-curators\u2014AFAM\u2019s Deputy Director and Chief Curatorial & Program Officer, Emelie Gevalt and the Museum\u2019s Art Bridges Fellow, Austin Losada\u2014will lead a walkthrough of the galleries in dialogue with one another. Together, the speakers will highlight selected quilts and accompanying materials on view\u2014including watercolors, historical illustrations, swatch books, raw fibers, dye stuff samples, and instructional video\u2014while exploring the botanical knowledge and industrial techniques involved in producing textile materials, colors, and patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n

With a focus on the environmental impact of quiltmaking, this walkthrough is a unique opportunity to learn about the many facets of global material culture that emerged in the early modern period and profoundly shaped the United States in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Emelie Gevalt<\/b> is Deputy Director and Chief Curatorial & Program Officer at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. Her exhibitions at AFAM include the critically acclaimed <\/span>What that Quilt Knows About Me<\/span><\/i> (2023) and <\/span>Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North<\/span><\/i> (2023). Gevalt received her B.A. in art history and theater studies from Yale University, her M.A. from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and her doctorate 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 was a Vice President in the Estates, Appraisals & Valuations department.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Austin Losada<\/b> is Art Bridges Fellow working within the Curatorial and Collections & Exhibitions teams at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. He is a scholar and curator of American art and material culture with a specialty in the history of photography from its invention to the present day. Losada earned his M.A. in Material Culture Studies from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware and a B.A. in Art History and German from Rutgers University. He previously served as the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Graduate Intern at the Zimmerli Art Museum where he curated several exhibitions, including <\/span>\u201cBeauty Among the Ordinary Things\u201d: The Photographs of William Armbruster<\/span><\/i>.<\/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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instructions for joining with a Zoom link and password will be provided by email upon registration confirmation under \u201cAdditional Information.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Closed captioning will be provided in English.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email <\/span>publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Left: Tree of Life Cutout Chintz Quilt, probably Wiscasset, Maine, c. 1925\u20131935, cotton, 96 x 90 in. Gift of Cyril Irwin Nelson in honor of Elizabeth V. Warren and Sharon L.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Middle: Nicolas Regnault (1746\u20131810), \u201cL\u2019Anil, ou, l\u2019Indigo [indigo],\u201d from <\/span>La botanique mise \u00e0 la porte\u00e9 de tout le monde; ou, Collection des plantes d\u2019usage dans la m\u00e9decine, dans les alimens et dans les arts<\/span><\/i> [Botany made accessible . . .], 1774. Hand-colored engraving. New York Public Library.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Right: 14. Wholecloth Quilt, England or United States, c. 1785\u20131790, cotton and linen, 96 x 93 in. Gift of Cyril Irwin Nelson in honor of Laura Fisher<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ESln_GNUprs","day":"30","month":"Sep","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-an-ecology-of-quilts\/"},"58":{"ID":34839,"post_type":"programs","title":"To Speak In Threads: Hellen Ascoli, Anna Burckhardt P\u00e9rez and Siu V\u00e1squez In Conversation 5\/20\/25","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2025-04-02 20:56:31","name":"to-speak-in-threads-hellen-ascoli-anna-burckhardt-perez-and-siu-vasquez-in-conversation-5-20-25","parent":0,"modified":"2025-07-10 22:38:01","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":34840,"id":34840,"title":"To speak in threads","filename":"To-speak-in-threads.png","filesize":955129,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/To-speak-in-threads.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/to-speak-in-threads-hellen-ascoli-anna-burckhardt-perez-and-siu-vasquez-in-conversation-5-20-25\/to-speak-in-threads\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"to-speak-in-threads","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":34839,"date":"2025-04-02 20:47:15","modified":"2025-04-02 20:47:15","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1340,"height":577,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/To-speak-in-threads-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/To-speak-in-threads-300x129.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":129,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/To-speak-in-threads-768x331.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":331,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/To-speak-in-threads.png","large-width":1340,"large-height":577,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/To-speak-in-threads.png","1536x1536-width":1340,"1536x1536-height":577,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/To-speak-in-threads.png","2048x2048-width":1340,"2048x2048-height":577}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/To-speak-in-threads.png","headline":"To Speak In Threads: Hellen Ascoli, Anna Burckhardt P\u00e9rez and Siu V\u00e1squez In Conversation","di_date":"2025-05-20","excerpt":"

Join curator Anna Burckhardt P\u00e9rez and artists Hellen Ascoli and Siu V\u00e1squez for a conversation, both in English and Spanish, about textiles, painting and storytelling.<\/p>\n

Watch this program online<\/span> here<\/a> in English.<\/p>\n

Mira este programa en l\u00ednea<\/span> aqu\u00ed<\/a> en espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"2:15 pm","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

\u201cThis wool painting is of a big farm. On the farm, there is an angel and a little bird. I don’t know why, but an angel appeared there, above the bulls, right by the sun. The farmhouse is really old, and all these people live on the farm. There was also a big green bird that appeared there by the sun. I love the sun and the moon, all two of them\u201d
\n\u2013Madalena Santos Reinbolt, c. 1974-1975<\/p>\n

This story of an old farm, where a great bird a little bird and an angel appear beside the sun, reveals the rich and intricate imagination of Madalena Santos Reinbolt. Through her quadros de l\u00e3 (wool paintings) and her oil paintings, the artist not only shapes forms, patterns, and colors but also expresses her surroundings, emotions as, and beliefs. Her work is deeply inspired by her community, spiritual traditions, and environment.<\/p>\n

Siu V\u00e1squez and Hellen Ascoli, two contemporary weavers from Colombia and Guatemala, also use the materiality of textiles, their pigments and symbols to address issues of memory, language, and ancestral knowledge.<\/p>\n

In conversation with Anna Burckhardt P\u00e9rez\u2014a curator interested in the intersections of art, craft, technology, and ecologies in Latin America\u2014these two contemporary artists will discuss their textile-based practices in Spanish and English.<\/p>\n

Using Santos Reinbolt\u2019s embroideries as a starting point, the speakers will reflect on how textiles expand the possibilities of representation while exploring the deep connections between artistic innovation, local craft techniques, and identity.<\/p>\n

This program is co-organized by Anna Burckhardt P\u00e9rez, Neville Bryan Assistant Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Mathilde Walker-Billaud, Curator of Programs and Engagement at the American Folk Art Museum.<\/p>\n

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

Hellen Ascoli <\/strong>(Guatemala City \/ Baltimore, MD) is a weaver; a word that encompasses the other areas of discourse she situates herself within: art, craft, education and translation. Ascoli has a MFA from SAIC and her work has been exhibited internationally. In 2023 her solo exhibition, \u201cCIEN TIERRAS\u201d at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, traveled to La Nueva F\u00e1brica in Antigua, Guatemala. Notably her work was shown at Museo del Barrio Trienal 2024, and the Sharjah Biennial 2025. She has taught at universities in Guatemala and the US, and currently teaches at MICA while developing her practice in Language Justice. Currently she is working on an upcoming solo exhibition at the International Studio Curatorial Program, Brooklyn NY where she was previously a Pollock-Krasner resident.<\/span><\/p>\n

Siu V\u00e1squez <\/strong>(Bucaramanga, Colombia) <\/span>conceives her work as an expanded form of painting through which she reflects on the land and its relationships. She experiments with the materiality of pigments, supports, and references that might otherwise go unnoticed to create a personal pictorial language. She creates pigments with stones, bark, and plants from her home region, combining artisanal practices and working with artisans from rural and Indigenous cultures.<\/span><\/p>\n

V\u00e1squez studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.<\/span> Her <\/span>work has been exhibited in Colombia, Chile, the UK, Albania, Italy, and Spain. It is part of the collection of the Banco de la Rep\u00fablica de Colombia, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bucaramanga, and private collections. Her most recent solo exhibition, “La cabra siempre tira al monte,” was presented in 2023 at SGR Galer\u00eda, Bogot\u00e1, Co. Her work was recently exhibited at the ARTBO 2024 International Art Fair; “Sembrar la duda: Indicios sobre las representaciones ind\u00edgenas en Colombia” at MAMU 2023; the 1st Santiago de Chile Textile Art Biennial in 2023; “Fiesta de la primavera” at MAVI-UC; the “Organizmo Bloom” residency in the Matav\u00e9n rainforest in 2022 and London in 2023, as part of the British Council International Collaboration Grant. and “Cmd” at the MAXXI in Rome, in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anna Burckhardt P\u00e9rez <\/strong>(Bogot\u00e1, Colombia<\/span>)<\/b> is a curator and writer interested in the intersections of contemporary art, craft, technology, community-based practices, and ecologies in Latin America. She is currently the Neville Bryan Assistant Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). Prior to joining AIC, she worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she curated and co-organized several exhibitions and programs, most recently, <\/span>Projects: Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas<\/span><\/i> (2022). Recent projects as an independent curator include <\/span>Threads to the South<\/span><\/i> (2024) at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York, and <\/span>Mutualismos<\/span><\/i> (2021) at Plural Nodo Cultural, in Bogot\u00e1.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Left: Hellen Ascoli, <\/span>luzAzul<\/span><\/i>, 2024, cotton warp faced panels woven on back-strap loom, stitched on found wool blanket, 64 x 77 in. Courtesy Kasmin Gallery<\/span><\/p>\n

Middle: Madalena Santos Reinbolt, Untitled<\/span>, <\/b>1969\u20131977, wool on fabric, 138 x 115 cm | 54 3\/8 x 45 1\/4 in. Collection Edmar Pinto Costa, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/span><\/p>\n

Right: Siu V\u00e1squez, <\/span>#11<\/span><\/i>, <\/b>2023, Woven on a vertical loom, raw cotton yarn dyed with eucalyptus bark. Painted with acrylic, 110 x 100 cm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\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

\n

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

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

All sessions feature closed captioning in English.<\/span><\/p>\n

This program will be conducted in both Spanish and English, with live translation available to all.<\/span><\/p>\n

For specific accommodation questions or needs, please contact us at least 10 days prior to the program at publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yz7wcDgcoZc&list=PLYdGnSYY2RVr4s-2OfmGdKlRK3FNGMAXw","day":"20","month":"May","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/to-speak-in-threads-hellen-ascoli-anna-burckhardt-perez-and-siu-vasquez-in-conversation-5-20-25\/"},"87":{"ID":34369,"post_type":"programs","title":"I Can See It All Even With My Eyes Closed\u2013A Virtual Seminar on the Life and Art of Madalena Santos Reinbolt 4\/13\/25","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2025-02-07 23:35:45","name":"i-can-see-it-all-even-with-my-eyes-closed-a-virtual-seminar-on-the-life-and-art-of-madalena-santos-reinbolt-4-13-25","parent":0,"modified":"2025-06-13 02:57:48","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":34377,"id":34377,"title":"banner design - 1","filename":"4_13-seminar-banner-2.jpg","filesize":782851,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4_13-seminar-banner-2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/i-can-see-it-all-even-with-my-eyes-closed-a-virtual-seminar-on-the-life-and-art-of-madalena-santos-reinbolt-4-13-25\/banner-design-1-3\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"banner-design-1-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":34369,"date":"2025-02-08 02:06:45","modified":"2025-02-08 02:06:45","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1562,"height":887,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4_13-seminar-banner-2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4_13-seminar-banner-2-300x170.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":170,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4_13-seminar-banner-2-768x436.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":436,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4_13-seminar-banner-2.jpg","large-width":1562,"large-height":887,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4_13-seminar-banner-2-1536x872.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":872,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4_13-seminar-banner-2.jpg","2048x2048-width":1562,"2048x2048-height":887}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4_13-seminar-banner-2.jpg","headline":"I Can See It All Even With My Eyes Closed\u2013A Virtual Seminar on the Life and Art of Madalena Santos Reinbolt","di_date":"2025-04-13","excerpt":"

Join us for a one-day virtual seminar, offered in English and Portuguese, showcasing new research on Madalena Santos Reinbolt\u2019s artistic practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Assista<\/span> aqui<\/a> \u00e0 grava\u00e7\u00e3o deste programa em portugu\u00eas.<\/span><\/p>\n","start_time":"11:00 am","end_time":"4:30 pm","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"

I work everything out in my head. I can see it all even with my eyes closed. I think of something, and if it has to be tacked then I start tacking, and then on top of that I stitch all the things that I have in my head. Really, it\u2019s the needles that are doing the drawing.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u2013 Madalena Santos Reinbolt, c. 1974\u20131975\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I Can See It All Even With My Eyes Closed\u2013A Virtual Seminar on the Life and Art of Madalena Santos Reinbolt, <\/span><\/i>a day of talks and presentations held in both English and Portuguese, is the first large-scale program exploring the life, art, influences, and creative processes of Madalena Santos Reinbolt (Vit\u00f3ria da Conquista, Brazil, 1912\u20131976, Petr\u00f3polis, Brazil).<\/span><\/p>\n

The program will focus on the trajectory of Santos Reinbolt, an Afro-Brazilian painter and embroiderer who migrated in search of employment from rural Northeastern Brazil, where she grew up, to the larger cities of Salvador, S\u00e3o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Petr\u00f3polis in the second half of the 20th century. She chronicled local landscapes, people, and rituals from both her past and present while witnessing the rapid industrialization of her country in the second half of the 20th century. Looking at Santos Reinbolt\u2019s\u00a0 vibrant depictions of her social, natural, and spiritual environment, speakers will contextualize her practice as an expression of creative freedom and resistance within the complex climate of post-war Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n

Organized in conjunction with the exhibition <\/span>Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets<\/span><\/i><\/a>, the first retrospective of the artist’s work\u2013first on view at the Museu de Arte de S\u00e3o Paulo Assis Chateaubriand in 2022, and currently at the American Folk Art Museum), <\/span>I Can See It All Even With My Eyes Closed <\/span><\/i>will present new research on this overlooked but important figure of twentieth-century Brazilian art. The virtual seminar will bring together leading scholars, curators, and artists from Brazil and the US to explore modernisms, Latin American arts, textiles, craft, self-taught practices, and the Black diaspora. It will offer a rare opportunity for the audience to situate Santos Reinbolt\u2019s artistic process in a broader historical, geographical, gendered, racial, and socio-economic context while examining the extent of the artist\u2019s practice and singular vision.<\/span><\/p>\n

The virtual seminar will be divided into two sessions. The first will begin with an introduction by exhibition curator Val\u00e9rie Rousseau, followed by a panel discussion with Brazilian and American curators and scholars\u2014Amanda Carneiro, Andr\u00e9 Mesquita, Amanda Reis Tavares Pereira, Mariana Arantes, and Dylan Blau Edelstein\u2014who will present new scholarship on Santos Reinbolt. The second session will feature a conversation between American artist Kesiena Onosigho and American art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson on the politics and aesthetics of textiles, followed by closing remarks from Brazilian historian and anthropologist Lilia Moritz Schwarcz.<\/span><\/p>\n

This seminar is organized by Mathilde Walker-Billaud, AFAM Curator of Programs and Engagement<\/span><\/p>\n

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

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Madalena Santos Reinbolt at the American Folk Art Museum in New York<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction by <\/span>Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/strong>, PhD Curatorial Chair and Senior Curator of 20th-Century & Contemporary Art, AFAM and <\/span>Mathilde Walker-Billaud<\/strong>, Curator of Programs and Engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Public Secret No More?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Panel presentation and conversation featuring:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– Amanda Carneiro<\/b> & <\/span>Andr\u00e9 Mesquita<\/b>, <\/span><\/strong>co-curators of Madalena dos Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets<\/i> presented at MASP, from November 25, 2022 to February 26, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n

– Amanda Reis Tavares Pereira<\/strong>, art scholar\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– <\/span>Mariana Arantes<\/strong>, art scholar\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Introduced and moderated by <\/span>Dylan Blau Edelstein<\/strong>, PhD Candidate, Princeton University’s Spanish and Portuguese Department, and Curatorial Assistant of AFAM\u2019s Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET<\/strong>
\nBREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n

2:00 PM – 3:15 PM ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Embellishing the Threads: Madalena Santos Reinbolt and Afro-Diasporic Textile Traditions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Conversation with <\/span>Kesiena Onosigho<\/strong>, artist<\/span><\/p>\n

and <\/span>Julia Bryan-Wilson<\/strong>, Professor of LGBTQ+ Art at Columbia and Curator-at-Large at MASP<\/span><\/p>\n

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Madalena Santos Reinbolt: Art As a Form of Saturation and Anachronistic Time\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Closing remarks by <\/span>Lilia Moritz Schwarcz<\/strong>, Full Professor in Anthropology at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo and Visiting Professor at Princeton University.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for a full schedule and speaker biographies.<\/p>\n

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

I Can See It All Even With My Eyes Closed\u2013A Virtual Seminar on the Life and Art of Madalena Santos Reinbolt<\/span><\/i> is co-presented with the<\/span> Museu de Arte de S\u00e3o Paulo Assis Chateaubriand<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Brazil LAB at Princeton University<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Museu de Arte de S\u00e3o Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – MASP, the first modern museum in Brazil, is a private, non-profit institution founded in 1947 by Brazilian businessman Assis Chateaubriand. Its building, designed by Lina Bo Bardi, is a landmark of 20th-century architecture. This year, MASP is expanding, transforming into a cultural complex with the most important collection of European art in the Southern Hemisphere. Its curatorial program is diverse, inclusive, and plural, celebrating the history of art.<\/p>\n

The Brazil LAB is an original initiative at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, gathering Princeton faculty and students working in and on Brazil and on subjects Brazil is helpful to think with. The LAB | <\/span>Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies<\/span><\/i> | is a multi-disciplinary research and teaching hub for exploring the country\u2019s history, politics and culture, along with its regional significance and international connections.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

All sessions feature closed captioning in English, and live interpretation in Portuguese.<\/span><\/p>\n

For specific accommodation questions or needs, please contact us at least 10 days prior to the program at publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Support<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lead Support for this program is provided by Dorothea and <\/span>Leo Rabkin Foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Additional support is provided by <\/span>The Coby Foundation, the Madalena Santos Reinbolt Advisory Committee (Vilma Eid, <\/span>Luciana Solano, <\/span>Maria Fernanda Mazzuco), the <\/span>Consulate-General of Brazil in New York \/ Instituto Guimar\u00e3es Rosa, Citi, <\/span>the <\/span>Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, and the <\/span>New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the <\/span>New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature<\/span>, and the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Left: Attributed to Pedro Oswaldo Cruz and Cristina Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil), <\/span>Madalena Santos Reinbolt<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. 1974\u20131975, digital photograph \u00a9 L\u00e9lia Coelho Frota, <\/span>Mitopo\u00e9tica de 9 artistas brasileiros<\/span><\/i> (Rio de Janeiro: Funarte, 1978)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Right: Madalena Santos Reinbolt<\/span>, Untitled, <\/b>1965\u20131976, acrylic wool on burlap, 35 x 43 1\/4 in. Collection Edmar Pinto Costa, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/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<\/span><\/p>\n

    \"\"\u00a0 \u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLYdGnSYY2RVr4s-2OfmGdKlRK3FNGMAXw","day":"13","month":"Apr","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/i-can-see-it-all-even-with-my-eyes-closed-a-virtual-seminar-on-the-life-and-art-of-madalena-santos-reinbolt-4-13-25\/"},"97":{"ID":34478,"post_type":"programs","title":"Both\/And 3: Dreaming of Home with Gemma Rolls-Bentley 3\/27\/25","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2025-02-22 01:21:59","name":"both-and-3-dreaming-of-home-with-gemma-rolls-bentley-3-27-25","parent":0,"modified":"2025-04-05 02:58:04","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":34484,"id":34484,"title":"both-and-32","filename":"both-and-32.png","filesize":1007750,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/both-and-32.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/both-and-3-dreaming-of-home-with-gemma-rolls-bentley-3-27-25\/both-and-32\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"both-and-32","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":34478,"date":"2025-02-22 01:27:32","modified":"2025-02-22 01:27:32","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1562,"height":658,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/both-and-32-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/both-and-32-300x126.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":126,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/both-and-32-768x324.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":324,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/both-and-32.png","large-width":1562,"large-height":658,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/both-and-32-1536x647.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":647,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/both-and-32.png","2048x2048-width":1562,"2048x2048-height":658}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/both-and-3.png","headline":"Both\/And 3: Dreaming of Home with Gemma Rolls-Bentley","di_date":"2025-03-27","excerpt":"

    Join curators Brooke Wyatt and Gemma Rolls-Bentley as they explore the museum\u2019s collection through the prism of belonging, community, and identity.<\/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":"

    AFAM\u2019s collection features many artists who have experienced disenfranchisement and faced brutal social and economic restrictions. Their artworks often complicate conventional representations of domesticity and protection, even as they materialize a sense of belonging and hold onto the \u201cdream of home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    For the third installment of our series <\/span>Both\/And<\/span><\/i>, curator Brooke Wyatt invites curator and writer Gemma Rolls-Bentley to present the curatorial framework behind <\/span>Dreaming of Home<\/span><\/i><\/a>, recently on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York. This project explores the idea of home beyond its physical space, considering the roles of community, family, spirituality, and the body in creating a safe and comfortable place. Through the works of twenty contemporary queer artists, Rolls-Bentley suggests that building a home is sometimes a hard-won process that requires faith, creativity, and imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Speakers will reflect on themes of self-care, queerness, artistic identity, and world-building, and will engage with artists featured in <\/span>Somewhere to Roost<\/span><\/i><\/a>, including works by Lee Godie, Thornton Dial, Sr., and a selection of hand-tinted vernacular photographs.<\/span><\/p>\n

    About the Both\/And series<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Inspired by artist and writer Lorraine O\u2019Grady (1934-2024) who uses the concept of \u201cboth\/and\u201d to think in a non-hierarchical way, the \u201c<\/span>Both\/And\u201d program series<\/span><\/a> explores the breadth and complexities of AFAM\u2019s collection beyond the untrained\/skilled, craft\/art, and amateur\/fine art divides. Speakers approach artists and their objects as agents capable of posing questions to us, the viewers, rather than the other way around.<\/span><\/p>\n

    This program is organized in conjunction with<\/span> a series of thematic shows drawn from the Museum\u2019s collection that includes <\/span>Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span>Marvels of My Own Inventiveness<\/span><\/i><\/a>, and <\/span>Somewhere to Roost<\/span><\/i><\/a>, and runs through 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 speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Gemma Rolls-Bentley<\/strong> has been at the forefront of contemporary art for almost two decades, working passionately to champion diversity in the field. Her debut book <\/span>Queer Art; From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between <\/span><\/i>was published in Spring 2024 by Frances Lincoln and has been highlighted as a must-read by Them, Dazed, Timeout, The Guardian, Cultured and the FT. Her curatorial practice amplifies the work of female and queer artists and provides a platform for art that explores LGBTQIA+ identity. Gemma has curated for a range of international galleries and institutions, most recently Carl Freedman Gallery, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, Somerset House, the Tom of Finland Foundation, London Art Fair and Kkweer Arts. In 2022 she curated the Brighton Beacon Collection, the largest permanent display of queer art in the UK, for Soho House Brighton. Gemma has taught at numerous institutions including the Royal College of Art, the Glasgow School of Art, and Goldsmiths. She co-chairs the board of trustees for the charity Queercircle, sits on the Courtauld Association Committee and the Leslie Lohman Museum Acquisitions Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Brooke Wyatt<\/strong> was Luce Assistant Curator at the American Folk Art Museum from 2022-2024, where she envisioned a series of exhibitions drawn entirely from the Museum’s collection. She previously practiced as a clinical therapist in community mental health settings and worked as an art teacher before beginning her PhD in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Brooke’s doctoral dissertation, “S\u00e9raphine Louis and French Self-Taught Art in Transatlantic Modernist Discourse,” explores the material and representational strategies of the French artist S\u00e9raphine Louis, foregrounding how histories of gender, class, race, 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

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

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

    All sessions feature closed captioning in English, and live ASL interpretation.<\/span><\/p>\n

    For specific accommodation questions or needs, please contact us at least 10 days prior to the program at publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Support<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Somewhere to Roost<\/span><\/i> is generously supported by the Joyce B. Cowin Fund for Exhibitions. Presented in the Daniel Cowin Gallery\u2014originally established by Trustee<\/span> Joyce B. Cowin<\/span><\/a> in memory of her husband, also a Trustee and champion of the Museum\u2014it includes recently acquired works, including selections from the<\/span> Audrey B. Heckler collection<\/span><\/a>, and gifts from Joshua Feldstein, Peter J. Cohen, and Will and Mary Evans.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

    Photographers unidentified, c. 1915-1960, hand-tinted photographs. American Folk Art Museum, New York; gift of Peter J. Cohen.<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jKmN9pa9EN4","day":"27","month":"Mar","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/both-and-3-dreaming-of-home-with-gemma-rolls-bentley-3-27-25\/"},"111":{"ID":34379,"post_type":"programs","title":"A Dance For Madalena - Ana Pi Responds to the Exhibition Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets 3\/7\/25","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2025-02-10 22:14:57","name":"a-dance-for-madalena-ana-pi-responds-to-the-exhibition-madalena-santos-reinbolt-a-head-full-of-planets-3-7-25","parent":0,"modified":"2025-04-09 21:02:42","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":34380,"id":34380,"title":"Ana Pi Banner 1","filename":"Ana-Pi-Banner-1.png","filesize":2436391,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ana-Pi-Banner-1.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/a-dance-for-madalena-ana-pi-responds-to-the-exhibition-madalena-santos-reinbolt-a-head-full-of-planets-3-7-25\/ana-pi-banner-1\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"ana-pi-banner-1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":34379,"date":"2025-02-10 22:09:53","modified":"2025-02-10 22:09:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ana-Pi-Banner-1-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ana-Pi-Banner-1-300x169.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ana-Pi-Banner-1-768x432.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ana-Pi-Banner-1.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ana-Pi-Banner-1-1536x864.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ana-Pi-Banner-1.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ana-Pi.jpg","headline":"A Dance For Madalena - Ana Pi Responds to the Exhibition Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets","di_date":"2025-03-07","excerpt":"

    Join us for a series of live performances conceived and performed by Brazilian artist Ana Pi, in response to the exhibition\u00a0Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets<\/i><\/p>\n

    Friday March 7 – 5:00 p.m. EST
    \nSaturday March 8 – 2:00 p.m. EST
    \nSunday March 9 – 2:00 p.m. EST<\/p>\n","admission":"In-person; free. Registration appreciated","main_content":"

    Friday March 7 – 5:00 p.m. EST<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Saturday March 8 – 2:00 p.m. EST<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Sunday March 9 – 2:00 p.m. EST<\/strong><\/p>\n

    A Dance for Madalena <\/span><\/i>is a poetic tribute, through movement and performance, to Madalena Santos Reinbolt, a remarkable Black embroiderer and painter renowned for her vivid depictions of urban and rural life in 20th-century Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Choreographer Ana Pi will engage in a dialogue with Santos Reinbolt\u2019s work, responding to the “wool paintings” on view in the exhibition<\/span> Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets<\/span><\/i><\/a>. Rooted in the road between the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, Pi will evoke the vibrant landscapes and creative spirit of the coastal and interior regions of Northeastern Brazil, where Santos Reinbolt lived, worked, and traveled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Pi has learned that gestures carry and connect the memories and traditions of Black communities across continents and generations. <\/span>A Dance for Madalena<\/span><\/i> will weave together movement, voice, texture, and color, bringing Santos Reinbolt\u2019s textile vision to life while celebrating Afro-Brazilian experience, knowledge and spirituality.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Each performance is a 20-min solo dance, integrating a motif and gesture drawn from Santos Reinbolt\u2019s work:<\/span><\/p>\n

    Friday March 7 \u2013 5:00 p.m.\u00a0 Motif 1: EYES CLOSING<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Saturday March 8 \u2013 2:00 p.m. Motif 2: FINAL CLEANING<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Sunday March 9 \u2013 2:00 p.m. Motif 3: INLAND EXPANDING<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The first motif, \u201cEYES CLOSING\u201d, channels Santos Reinbolt’s spiritual and metaphysical presence. The second, \u201cFINAL CLEANING\u201d, serves a farewell to her life as a domestic worker. The third and final one, \u201cINLAND EXPANDING\u201d, traces the world-building of her needlework.<\/span><\/p>\n

    This live program is conceived and performed by Ana Pi. Organized by Mathilde Walker-Billaud, AFAM Curator of Programs and Engagement<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n

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

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    Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to download the program notes.<\/p>\n

    \n

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

    Ana Pi<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>is a choreographer and \u201c<\/span>imagery\u201d<\/span><\/i> artist, born, raised, and nourished in Brazil, working from France and navigating the world through the regenerative layers of the African Diaspora and its radical imagination. The artist amplifies a research on ancestral dances and their actual peripheral forms; she works as an \u201c<\/span>extemporary\u201d<\/span><\/i> dancer, pedagogue, space maker, and writer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Ana Pi studies, materially, gestures and movements that have been transmitted by traditions and transmuted through different landscapes, softwares, living bodies and archives, while carefully learning their philosophy and futurity. Interwoven by the act of traveling, her transdisciplinary works are precisely situated between notions of transit, displacement, belonging, superposition, memory, colors, and ordinary gestures.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Her choreographic pieces, sculptural installations, films, pedagogical acts, and research have been programmed in institutional spaces such as the 35th S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial \u2014 Choreographies of the Impossible, Cisneros Institute with MoMA, Performa Biennial, AMANT Brooklyn, The Wake \u2014 15th Dakar Biennale, Centre Pompidou Paris and Metz, Museo Reina Sofia, Dancing Museums, Assembl\u00e9e des Mutants, Hist\u00f3rias Afro-Atl\u00e2nticas Exhibition, International Film Festival Rotterdam, RAW Material Company, A-CDCN France, P.A.R.T.S, Festival d’Automne, Impulstanz, Alkantara, Holland Festival, VIDEOBRASIL, Fondation Cartier, Puerto de Ideas, INHOTIM, MASP, The Place London, BARD College, to mention just a few.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Since 2010, she has cultivated and shared the practice <\/span>STEADY BODY; peripheral dances \u2014 sacred gestures<\/span><\/i>. Since 2020, NA MATA LAB has been producing her various projects and collaborations. Ana Pi is currently working on <\/span>ATOMIC JOY<\/span><\/i>, a choreographic piece for 8 dancers, premiering both at Rencontres chor\u00e9graphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and Pinacoteca de S\u00e3o Paulo in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

    Left: Ana Pi, <\/span>NoirBLUE<\/i><\/strong>, 2017, solo performance. Photo: Daniel Nicolaevsky for Na Mata Lab<\/span><\/p>\n

    Right:<\/span> Madalena Santos Reinbolt, <\/span>Untitled, <\/strong>1965\u20131976, acrylic wool on burlap with pieces of fabric, 36 1\/4 x 38 5\/8 in. Collection Edmar Pinto Costa, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/span><\/p>\n

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

    Lead support is provided by the Ford Foundation. Major support is provided by The Coby Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Madalena Santos Reinbolt Advisory Committee: LA Dillon, Vilma Eid, Ady Fong, Maria Fernanda Mazzuco, Luciana Solano. Additional support is provided by the Consulate-General of Brazil in New York \/ Instituto Guimar\u00e3es Rosa, Citi, 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

    Special thanks to Jessica Mitrani for her generous support of the performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Free, and open to all. Advance registration is appreciated. Please consider making a donation when you register to support ongoing virtual programming.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Please note: Attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis (even for those who have registered) and will be limited to the legal capacity of our venue.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Program takes place in the Museum\u2019s Atrium on the first floor. All bags are subject to security bag check upon arrival to the Museum. Please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start time. All backpacks must be left in coat check.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    For specific accommodation questions or needs, please contact us at least 10 days prior to the program at publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"REGISTER HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/a-dance-for-madalena-tickets-1242293967699?aff=oddtdtcreator","day":"07","month":"Mar","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/a-dance-for-madalena-ana-pi-responds-to-the-exhibition-madalena-santos-reinbolt-a-head-full-of-planets-3-7-25\/"},"116":{"ID":34188,"post_type":"programs","title":"2025 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2025-01-10 21:10:50","name":"2025-anne-hill-blanchard-uncommon-artists-lecture","parent":0,"modified":"2025-03-04 19:40:30","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":34193,"id":34193,"title":"2025 Uncommon Artist2","filename":"2025-Uncommon-Artist2.png","filesize":2076902,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-Uncommon-Artist2.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/2025-anne-hill-blanchard-uncommon-artists-lecture\/2025-uncommon-artist2\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"2025-uncommon-artist2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":34188,"date":"2025-01-10 21:36:02","modified":"2025-01-10 21:36:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-Uncommon-Artist2-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-Uncommon-Artist2-300x169.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-Uncommon-Artist2-768x432.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-Uncommon-Artist2.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-Uncommon-Artist2-1536x864.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-Uncommon-Artist2.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-Uncommon-Artist2.png","headline":"2025 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture","di_date":"2025-03-02","excerpt":"

    Join us online for the 2025 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture and discover new research on artists Jos\u00e9 Antonio da Silva, H\u00e9lio Melo, Rosa Elena Curruchich with talks by Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, Kiki Mazzucchelli and Miguel A. L\u00f3pez.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Watch a recording of this program online<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","start_time":"1:00 pm","end_time":"3:00 pm","main_content":"

    Join us online for the 2025 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Talks will present new research by curators Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, Kiki Mazzucchelli and Miguel A. L\u00f3pez, drawing on the themes and approaches of the American Folk Art Museum\u2019s exhibition <\/span>Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets<\/span><\/i><\/a>,<\/span> which will be on view from February 12 through May 25, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

    With a focus on South America in the long 20th Century, this year\u2019s lecture presents three painters who defied realism, capturing daily life at a time of social, ecological and political changes: Jose Antonio da Silva (Brazil; 1909-1996), Helio Melio (Brazil; 1926-2001) and Rosa Elena Curruchich (Guatemala; 1958-2005).<\/span><\/p>\n

    Art historian and curator Gabriel Perez-Barreiro offers new approaches to Jose Antonio da Silva\u2019s vast and singular production, Kiki Mazzucchelli looks into Helio Melio\u2019s forestial folklore, in which the Amazon plays a central role, and Miguel A. L\u00f3pez highlights Rosa Elena Curruchich\u2019s streamlined but nuanced perspective on Mayan society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    The <\/span>Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture Series<\/span><\/a> highlights 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

    Schedule<\/u><\/p>\n

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

    1:10\u00a0 p.m. EST Gabriel P\u00e9rez-Barreiro on Jos\u00e9 Antonio da Silva (Brazil; 1909-1996)<\/span><\/p>\n

    1:40 p.m. EST Kiki Mazzucchelli on H\u00e9lio Melio (Brazil; 1926-2001)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    2:10 p.m. EST Miguel A. L\u00f3pez on Rosa Elena Curruchich (Guatemala; 1958-2005)<\/span><\/p>\n

    2: 40 pm EST Q&A<\/span><\/p>\n

    Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Miguel A. L\u00f3pez<\/strong> is a writer and curator. He was co-curator of the 2024 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art. From 2015 to 2020, he worked as Chief Curator, and later Co-director at TEOR\/\u00e9Tica, Costa Rica. In 2019, he curated the retrospective exhibition of Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a, “Seehearing the Enlightened Failure,” at the Witte de With (now Kunstinstituut Melly), Rotterdam, which traveled to Mexico City, Madrid, and Bogota, during 2020-2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Kiki Mazzucchelli <\/strong>is a curator, writer and editor currently based in S\u00e3o Paulo. Over the past decade, her projects have focused on historical artists from Brazil whose work has been overlooked by dominant narratives – among them Eleonore Koch (1926-2018), Fl\u00e1vio de Carvalho (1899-1973), and H\u00e9lio Melo (1926-2001). Since 2022, she has been the Artistic Director of Galeria Luisa Strina, where she is in charge of the artistic programme and special projects; as well as the co-curator (with Filipe Assis and Claudia Moreira Salles) of ABERTO, an itinerant platform of group exhibitions held in iconic modernist houses.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Gabriel P\u00e9rez-Barreiro <\/strong>is a curator and art historian. He was Director and Chief Curator of the Colecci\u00f3n Patricia Phelps de Cisneros from 2008\u20132018, and is currently Senior Advisor. He was Curator of the 33 rd S\u00e3o Paulo Bienal in 2018 and curator of the Brazilian pavilion at the 58 th Venice Biennale in 2019. From 2002\u20132008 he was Curator of Latin American Art at the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin. In 2007 he was Chief Curator of the 6 th Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex, and an MA in Art History and Latin American Studies from the University of Aberdeen. From 2000-2002 he was Director of Visual Arts at The Americas Society in New York. Prior to that he was Exhibitions and Programs Coordinator at the Casa de Am\u00e9rica in Madrid. From 1993 to 1998 he was Founding Curator of the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art. He has published and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art from Latin America. He is a member of the collective ESTAR(SER), the Esthetic Society for Transcendental &amp; Applied Realization.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

    Left: Jos\u00e9 Antonio da Silva, Cotton Field, 1969,\u00a0 oil on canvas,\u00a0 65 x 100 cm. Collection Vilma Eid<\/span><\/p>\n

    Middle: H\u00e9lio Melo, Untitled, 1990, ink and leaves’ extract on fabric. Courtesy of Almeida & Dale – Photo: Sergio Guerini<\/span><\/p>\n

    Right: Rosa Elena Curruchich, <\/span>Rosa Elena pintando caser\u00edo Chosij <\/span><\/i>[Rosa Elena Painting the Chosij Village], ca. 1980s, oil on canvas, 15.7 \u00d7 20 cm. Photo: Juan Pablo Murrugarra<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LAB8qG-gi44","day":"02","month":"Mar","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/2025-anne-hill-blanchard-uncommon-artists-lecture\/"},"120":{"ID":34172,"post_type":"programs","title":"Virtual Insights: Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets 2\/14\/25","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2024-12-30 22:02:23","name":"virtual-insights-madalena-santos-reinbolt-a-head-full-of-planets-2-14-25","parent":0,"modified":"2025-03-04 19:05:44","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":34173,"id":34173,"title":"2_14 curatorial walkthrough banner","filename":"2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner.png","filesize":825950,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner.png","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-madalena-santos-reinbolt-a-head-full-of-planets-2-14-25\/2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":34172,"date":"2024-12-30 21:56:59","modified":"2024-12-30 21:56:59","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":980,"height":454,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner-300x139.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":139,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner-768x356.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":356,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner.png","large-width":980,"large-height":454,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner.png","1536x1536-width":980,"1536x1536-height":454,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner.png","2048x2048-width":980,"2048x2048-height":454}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2_14-curatorial-walkthrough-banner.png","headline":"Virtual Insights: Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets","di_date":"2025-02-14","excerpt":"

    Join Curatorial Chair for Exhibitions and Senior Curator of Self-Taught Art & Art Brut curator Val\u00e9rie Rousseau and Curatorial Assistant Dylan Blau Edelstein for a behind the scenes of Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets to learn more about the artist, her artworks and the themes included in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

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

    Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets<\/span><\/i> is the first American retrospective of the work of Madalena Santos Reinbolt (Vit\u00f3ria da Conquista, 1912\u2013Petr\u00f3polis, 1976, Brazil). Devoted to a trailblazer but underrecognized figure of Brazilian art<\/span>, it <\/span>features over 40 densely-composed paintings and intricate embroideries representing scenes of pastoral life, urban landscapes as well as human, celestial and ornamental figures.<\/span><\/p>\n

    AFAM\u2019s Curatorial Chair for Exhibitions and Senior Curator of Self-Taught Art & Art Brut Val\u00e9rie Rousseau<\/span> will<\/span> walk us through the galleries in dialogue with Dylan Blau Edelstein, <\/span>Curatorial Assistant<\/span> on the project. Together they will share their research and field-work findings while discussing the artworks and the themes included in the exhibition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    This curatorial walkthrough will be a unique opportunity to grasp the full extent of the artist’s creativity and singularity. Looking at her process through a plurality of lenses and situating her work in a larger historical, socio-economical, gender and racial context, speakers will consider Santos Reinbolt\u2019s art as an expression of creative freedom as much as of resistance for a Black woman living and working as a domestic worker in 20th century Brazil<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

    Dylan Blau Edelstein<\/strong> is a PhD Candidate at Princeton University in Spanish and Portuguese. His research broadly investigates marginalized centers of modernist production and the intersections of cultural, artistic, and psychiatric practices in 20th-century Brazil. His writings have appeared in academic journals in both Brazil and the United States, and he has presented his work at venues such as Weill Cornell Medicine\u2019s Richardson Seminar on the History of Psychiatry, Princeton\u2019s BrazilLAB, and UFRJ\u2019s N\u00facleo de Pensamento Social. Blau Edelstein teaches courses on language and culture at Princeton University and Rutgers University, and is currently a Curatorial Fellow at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, where he is Curatorial Assistant on the exhibition <\/span>Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets<\/span><\/i>.<\/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 Biblioth\u00e8que Kandinsky Summer University (Centre Pompidou, Paris).<\/span><\/p>\n

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

    Left: Madalena Santos Reinbolt, <\/span>Untitled, 1965\u20131976, acrylic wool on burlap, 33 1\/2 x 42 7\/8 in. Collection Edmar Pinto Costa, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Eduardo Ortega<\/span><\/p>\n

    Right: Madalena Santos Reinbolt, <\/span>Untitled (Salvador), 1950\u20131960, Petr\u00f3polis, Brazil, oil on canvas, 27 1\/2 x 22 7\/8 in. Collection Rafael Moraes, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Eduardo Ortega<\/span><\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8hYxiUnXgrQ","day":"14","month":"Feb","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/virtual-insights-madalena-santos-reinbolt-a-head-full-of-planets-2-14-25\/"},"122":{"ID":33628,"post_type":"programs","title":"Mystical Abstraction: Women, Spiritualism, and the Arts 1-26-25","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2024-09-10 02:45:56","name":"mystical-abstraction-women-spiritualism-and-the-arts-1-26-25","parent":0,"modified":"2025-01-30 22:49:42","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":33629,"id":33629,"title":"Your paragraph text - 1","filename":"banner-low-res.jpg","filesize":148167,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-low-res.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/mystical-abstraction-women-spiritualism-and-the-arts-1-26-25\/your-paragraph-text-1\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"your-paragraph-text-1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":33628,"date":"2024-09-10 02:40:55","modified":"2024-09-10 02:40:55","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1481,"height":608,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-low-res-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-low-res-300x123.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":123,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-low-res-768x315.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":315,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-low-res.jpg","large-width":1481,"large-height":608,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-low-res.jpg","1536x1536-width":1481,"1536x1536-height":608,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-low-res.jpg","2048x2048-width":1481,"2048x2048-height":608}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-low-res.jpg","headline":"Mystical Abstraction: Women, Spiritualism, and the Arts","di_date":"2025-01-26","excerpt":"

    Join Jennifer Higgie and Hilma\u2019s Ghost for a conversation about Shaker gift drawings, spiritual abstraction, and women artists.<\/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":"

    Shaker gift drawings are mysterious. On view in the exhibition<\/span> Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic<\/span><\/i><\/a>, these divinely inspired artifacts testify the vibrant and complex vision of the women who made them.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/span>In her book <\/span>The Other Side: A Journey Into Women, Art and the Spirit World<\/span><\/i>, Jennifer Higgie investigates the artistic innovations of women who engaged with the occult. Influenced by the practice of Swedish-born abstract artist and mystic Hilma af Klint, Hilma\u2019s Ghost, a feminist art collective, reckons with patriarchal art histories through the lens of feminism and spirituality.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/span>In this program, art historian Jennifer Higgie<\/span> and<\/span> the Brooklyn-based Hilma\u2019s Ghost will present and discuss their research on women\u2019s artistic and spiritual practices,<\/span> offering a unique perspective on the gift drawings which were made during the Shaker revival known as the era of Manifestations from 1837 to the mid-1850s. The practice of Shaker women will serve as a springboard to revisit the canon of European and American abstraction, with a focus on feminist and spiritual discourse.<\/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

    Jennifer Higgie<\/strong> is an Australian writer and former editor and staff writer of <\/span>frieze<\/span><\/i> magazine who lives in London. Her recent books include <\/span>The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World<\/span><\/i><\/a> and <\/span>The Mirror and the Palette: Revolution, Rebellion and Resilience: 500 Years of Women\u2019s Self-Portraits<\/span><\/i><\/a>. She is also the author of the novel <\/span>Bedlam<\/span><\/i>; author and illustrator of the children\u2019s book <\/span>There\u2019s Not One<\/span><\/i>; and editor of <\/span>The Artist\u2019s Joke<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>In 2023, <\/span>Jennifer was guest curator of the exhibition <\/span>Thin Skin<\/span><\/i> at Monash University Art Museum, Melbourne. Jennifer is also the editor of the National Gallery of Australia\u2019s new publication <\/span>The Annual <\/span><\/i>and host of its podcast, Artist\u2019s Artists.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Hilma’s Ghost<\/strong><\/a> is a feminist artist collective co-founded by artists and educators<\/span> Dannielle Tegeder<\/span><\/a> and<\/span> Sharmistha Ray<\/span><\/a> that fuses contemporary art with modern spirituality through forms of divination and ritual. Named after the Swedish artist and mystic, Hilma af Klint, the collective’s work is a critique of gendered power structures, providing a critical and revolutionary platform for rethinking gender in the arts while recovering feminist histories as its ballast for critique. The collective acts as a collaborative model for feminist research, artistic production, enchanted pedagogies, and community. <\/span>Their work ranges from the traditional to the esoteric, including paintings and drawings, surrealist games, a tarot deck, ritual object-based installations, pedagogical workshops, curated exhibitions, community projects, and books. In the 4+years of their collective\u2019s existence, they have completed more than 20 collaborative projects and participated in 50 public programs both nationally and internationally. In 2022, the duo began an itinerant art school with generative workshops fusing art and magic that have been attended by over 1K people. Their limited edition tarot deck, <\/span>Abstract Futures Tarot<\/span><\/i>, has a popular following in the art world. Hilma\u2019s Ghost has been featured in solo and group exhibitions and projects internationally at Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Galer\u00eda RGR, Mexico City, Mexico; Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT; Secrist | Beach, Chicago, IL; The Parallax Center, Portland, OR; The Armory Show, New York, NY; among many others. Reviews of their work have appeared in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet, and Hyperallergic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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.<\/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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    Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n

    This program is organized in partnership with\u00a0Shaker Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    With more than 18,000 objects,\u00a0Shaker Museum<\/a>\u00a0stewards the most comprehensive collection of Shaker material culture and archives. It is the leader nationwide among organizations devoted to Shaker history. Its permanent new facility in Chatham, NY, which is in development, was designed by Selldorf Architects. The museum also stewards the historic site in New Lebanon, NY, and will soon be moving its administrative offices, library, and archives to 29 Jones Ave. in Chatham. The museum\u2019s collection can be viewed online at\u00a0shakermuseum.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"WATCH HERE","reserve_link":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/S9z9YBf1laI","day":"26","month":"Jan","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/mystical-abstraction-women-spiritualism-and-the-arts-1-26-25\/"}}