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03 Apr 2017

Book Launch for The Hidden Art

Please join us for a public reception and book launch for The Hidden Art: 20th- & 21st-Century Self-Taught Artists from the Audrey B. Heckler Collection, written by Valérie Rousseau (ed.), Jane Kallir, Anne-Imelda Radice, and 29 additional authors (New York: Skira Rizzoli/American Folk Art Museum, 2017), with photography by Visko Hatfield. Join us as many of the contributors come together to celebrate this important publication.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP to rsvp@folkartmuseum.org

 

Artists featured in The Hidden Art

Emery Blagdon, Georgia Blizzard, David Butler, James Castle, Nek Chand, Aloïse Corbaz, Henry Darger, Thornton Dial, Hiroyuki Doi, Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Guo Fengyi, Howard Finster, Johann Fischer, Eugen Gabritschevsky, Madge Gill, Johann Hauser, William Hawkins, Morris Hirshfield, Franz Kernbeis, August Klett, Johann Korec, Augustin Lesage, Ronald Lockett, Justin McCarthy, M’onma, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Barbus Müller, Luboš Plný, Martín Ramírez, Achilles G. Rizzoli, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Christine Sefolosha, Jon Serl, Ghyslaine and Sylvain Staëlens, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Oswald Tschirtner, August Walla, George Widener, Charlie Willeto, Scottie Wilson, Adolf Wölfli, Purvis Young, Anna Zemánková, Domenico Zindato, and Carlo Zinelli.

 

Contributors to The Hidden Art

Gordon W. Bailey, Shonto Begay, Michael Bonesteel, Roger Cardinal, Lynne Cooke, Susan Mitchell Crawley, Claudia Dichter, Johann Feilacher, Philipp Fernandes do Brito, Edward M. Gómez, Audrey B. Heckler, Bernard L. Herman, Katherine L. Jentleson, Jane Kallir, Phyllis Kind, Tina Kukielski, Sarah Lombardi, Elsa Longhauser, John Maizels, Judith McWillie, Richard Meyer, Randall Morris, Tom Patterson, Anne-Imelda Radice, Colin Rhodes, Roger Ricco, Thomas Röske, Valérie Rousseau, Barbara Safarova, Leslie Umberger, Karen Wilkin, Elaine Y. Yau.

6:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free