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Join current and former American Folk Art Museum educators Claudia Maturell, Natalie Beall, and Sally Paul for a virtual conversation about the intersections between artistic practices, their own work, and the American Folk Art Museum\u2019s collection.<\/span><\/p>\n","start_time":"8:00 pm","end_time":"9:15 pm","admission":"Free, registration is required","main_content":" On the occasion of the publication of AFAM Senior Educator Nicole Haroutunian\u2019s novel-in-stories, <\/span>Choose This Now<\/strong>,<\/b> she will be joined for a virtual conversation by current and former American Folk Art Museum educators Claudia Maturell, Natalie Beall, and Sally Paul to share the intersections between their artistic practices, their own work, and the American Folk Art Museum\u2019s collection.<\/span><\/p>\n This program is free, but registration is required. For more details or to register, please email: education@folkartmuseum.org.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n About the Speakers:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n With paper collage and mixed media wall sculpture, <\/span>Natalie Beall<\/a><\/strong> invents new forms containing traces of functionality and fantasy. Her most recent solo exhibition,\u00a0<\/span>Pastimes<\/span><\/i>, was hosted in 2023 at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York. Beall has participated in exhibitions at Fridman Gallery, Tappeto Volante Projects, Good Naked Gallery, Standard Space, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and the Wassaic Project, among other venues. Residencies include the Saltonstall Foundation, the Lighthouse Works, the Cooper Union, and the Lower East Side Printshop. She is a 2017 NYFA\/NYSCA Fellow in Printmaking\/Drawing\/Book Arts. Beall holds a BFA from the University of Georgia and an MFA from Columbia University. She is Senior Educator and Manager of Student Engagement at the American Folk Art Museum where she has worked part-time since 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n Nicole Haroutunian<\/a><\/strong> (she\/her\/hers) is the author of the novel-in-stories <\/span>Choose This Now<\/strong> (Noemi Press, 2024) and the story collection <\/span>Speed Dreaming<\/strong> (Little a, 2015). Her work has appeared in <\/span>The Georgia Review, Story, the Bennington Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Tin House\u2019s Open Bar<\/span><\/i>, and elsewhere. Nicole is Senior Educator at the American Folk Art Museum, where she has worked on a contractual basis since 2008. She is also a member of the education department at the Noguchi Museum, and has worked in education at the Museum of the Modern Art, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York, among other institutions. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and lives with her family in Woodside, Queens in New York City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Claudia Maturell<\/a><\/strong> (she\/her\/hers) is an Afro-Cuban creative, educator, and community advocate based in Brooklyn, NY. Her creative work focuses on community, unity, justice, and spirituality, using the mediums of analog photography, painting, poetry, and movement to more deeply understand the social implications of universal spiritual concepts. Maturell\u2019s collaborative community-building practices span over 10 years, centering Black and Brown communities in all aspects of her work. Maturell does not hold any formal art training. She draws knowledge and inspiration from her community and peers. Maturell obtained her MA in Art, Education, and Community Practice from New York University in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n
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