Join us for a conversation about the art and life of Minnie Evans on the occasion of Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists and The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans at the Whitney Museum of American Art, both of which highlight the artist’s unique mixed-media drawing practice.

Co-presented with the Whitney Museum of American Art, this program reconsiders Evans’s position within American art, exploring her practice within different historical lineages. The speakers will share reflections on Evans’ vital sense of color, shape, and place while recontextualizing her otherworldly landscapes within the artistic traditions of the American South.

Following the panel, ticket holders are invited to view the exhibition The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans.

Speakers

Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator

Katherine Jentleson, Senior Curator of American Art and the Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art

Valerie Rousseau, Curatorial Chair and Senior Curator of 20th-Century & Contemporary Art at the American Folk Art Museum

Alison Saar, artist

With introductory remarks by Barbara Haskell, Curator

This program is co-organized by Megan Heuer, Director of Public Programs and Academic Engagement at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Mathilde Walker-Billaud, Curator of Programs and Engagement at AFAM.

Images

Left: Minnie Evans, Untitled, 1959. Oil on canvas, with collage, 20 x 24 in.
American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler.

Right: Minnie Evans, Untitled (Day to Night with Beasts and Angels), 1966. Crayon and pencil on paper, 14 7/8 × 19 3/4 in. Collection of ChrisVan Daniel. © The Estate of Minnie Evans

Tickets and location:

This program is presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art located at 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014.

Tickets are required ($15 adults; $12 members, seniors, and students). Capacity is limited; visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance.

For more information or to order tickets, please visit Whitney Museum’s website.

For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.