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An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles

September 26, 2025–March 1, 2026
Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets

February 12, 2025–May 25, 2025

Curator: Curated by Valérie Rousseau and Dylan Blau Edelstein

Somewhere to Roost

February 12, 2025–May 1, 2025

Curator: Brooke Wyatt

Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic

September 13, 2024–January 26, 2025

Curator: Emelie Gevalt and Austin Losada

Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture

September 13, 2024–January 26, 2025

Curator: Emelie Gevalt and Austin Losada

Tosquelles

April 12, 2024–August 18, 2024

Curator: Joana Masó, Carles Guerra, Valérie Rousseau, and Edward Dioguardi

Unnamed Figures

November 15, 2023–March 24, 2024

Curator: Emelie Gevalt, RL Watson, and Sadé Ayorinde

Marvels of My Own Inventiveness

November 15, 2023–March 24, 2024

Curator: Brooke Wyatt and Sadé Ayorinde

What That Quilt Knows About Me

March 17, 2023–October 29, 2023

Curator: Emelie Gevalt and Sadé Ayorinde

Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work

March 17, 2023–October 29, 2023

Curator: Brooke Wyatt

Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered

September 23, 2022–January 29, 2023

Curator: Richard Meyer and Valérie Rousseau

MULTITUDES

January 21, 2022–September 5, 2022

Curator: Valérie Rousseau and Emelie Gevalt

Pushing Boundaries

January 21, 2022–January 29, 2023

Curator: Emelie Gevalt and Valérie Rousseau

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds

June 23, 2021–January 2, 2022

Curator: Guest Curator: Bob Shaw and Emelie Gevalt

PHOTO | BRUT: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie

January 24, 2021–June 6, 2021

Curator: Curators: Valérie Rousseau, PhD, Senior Curator, and Bruno Decharme in collaboration with Barbara Safarova, Sam Stourdzé, and Paula Aisember

American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection

February 11, 2020–January 3, 2021

Curator: Stacy C. Hollander

Six Decades Collecting Self-Taught Art

August 26, 2019–January 3, 2021

Curator: Dr. Valerie Rousseau and Stacy C. Hollander

Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler

September 17, 2019–January 26, 2020

Curator: Valérie Rousseau

A Piece of Yourself: Gift Giving in Self-Taught Art

July 22, 2019 –January 10, 2020

Curator: Steffi Ibis Duarte

WALL POWER! Quilts from the Werner and Karen Gundersheimer Gift

August 6, 2019–September 1, 2019

Curator: Stacy C. Hollander

Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art

March 15, 2019–July 28, 2019

Curator: Elizabeth V. Warren