Join New York Art Therapy Association member and American Folk Art Museum Access Specialist Elizabeth Gronke on a guided tour of current exhibition, Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists. This program is designed for practitioners of art therapy.

The sixty artists featured in the galleries largely worked outside conventional art-school, gallery, museum, and peer-exchange systems. Their practices are rooted in diverse sites of learning, from professional expertise to community-based traditions. Drawn primarily from the American Folk Art Museum’s collection, this selection of artworks brings together outstanding examples of paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and artists’ notebooks by key national and international figures—many of them recent or rarely seen acquisitions. 

This interactive program will include time for personal art-making, journaling and self-reflection. Art supplies will be available, but feel free to bring your own non-liquid materials.

This program is free of charge, but space is limited. Please email egronke@folkartmuseum.org to RSVP.

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Elizabeth Layton (1909, Wellsville, Kansas–1993, Olathe, Kansas), Garden of Eden, Wellsville, Kansas, November 1977, Colored pencil and graphite on paper, 24 x 18 in., American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of Mr. Don Lambert and the Lawrence Arts Center, 2014.16.1