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Drop-in Gallery Tours

18 Dec 2018

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

19 Dec 2018

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

20 Dec 2018

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

21 Dec 2018

No Free Music Fridays Tonight

No performance this evening. Happy holidays! Free Music Fridays returns January 11.

5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free

Performances

26 Dec 2018

No Jazz + Wednesdays

No performance today. Happy holidays! Jazz + Wednesdays returns January 9.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

27 Dec 2018

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

28 Dec 2018

No Free Music Fridays Tonight

No performance this evening. Happy holidays! Free Music Fridays returns January 11.

5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

29 Dec 2018

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

02 Jan 2019

Midday Art Break

Join us at the Self-Taught Genius Gallery in Long Island City over your noon break for a free tour of Roadside Attraction with the exhibition’s curator, Sarah Margolis-Pineo.

12:00 pm–12:30 pm

Free

RSVP

Performances

02 Jan 2019

No Jazz + Wednesdays

No performance today. Happy holidays! Jazz + Wednesdays returns January 9.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Performances

04 Jan 2019

No Free Music Fridays Tonight

No performance this evening. Happy New Year! Free Music Fridays returns January 11.

5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

04 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Families

05 Jan 2019

Family Story Hour: Celebrating Paa Joe's Ghana

Join us for story hour and a drawing workshop. Participants will join writer and educator Nicole Haroutunian in a live reading of stories about Ghana and West Africa, the homeland of exhibition artist Paa Joe.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free; registration required

Register

Drop-in Gallery Tours

06 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

09 Jan 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

10 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Discussions

10 Jan 2019

Critical Walk-Through: Nari Ward

New York-based artist Nari Ward will discuss his work and practice engaging with migration and citizenship, community, and his native Jamaica, while exploring how those themes relate to the exhibition John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night.

6:30 pm–7:30 pm

$8 members, students, artists, and seniors; $10 general public

Purchase tickets

Performances

11 Jan 2019

Free Music Fridays

Jon Ladeau, Bianka Ndama, and David Nagler. Bianca Ndama photo courtesy of the artist.

5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

12 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Special Events

15 Jan 2019

Screening of "Paa Joe & The Lion" and Ghanaian Drumming Performance

Join us for an evening celebrating exhibition artist Paa Joe and the culture of his native Ghana.

6:00 pm–8:00 pm

$5

Purchase tickets

Drop-in Gallery Tours

15 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Special Events

15 Jan 2019

Verbal Description Program

Visitors who are blind or partially sighted are invited to join us for an interactive verbal description and touch tour in the museum’s galleries. The tour incorporates verbal imaging techniques and the museum’s Touch Collection, which includes objects that are expressly meant for handling.

10:00 am–11:30 am

Free; reservation required

Performances

16 Jan 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

17 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

18 Jan 2019

No Free Music Fridays Tonight

No performance this evening. Free Music Fridays returns January 25.

5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

19 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Symposia & Lectures

20 Jan 2019

2019 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture

The 2019 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture will explore new research on self-taught art of Ghana in conjunction with the museum exhibition Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, presented until February 24, 2018. Speakers include Kristin Otto on fantasy coffins, Silvia Forni on Asafo flags, and Ernie Wolfe on hand-painted movie posters. Coffee and pastries to start.

10:30 am–12:30 pm

$10 members, students, artists, seniors; $12 general public

Purchase tickets

Drop-in Gallery Tours

22 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

23 Jan 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

24 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

25 Jan 2019

Free Music Fridays

Nat Myers, Rust Dust, and Stephen Babcock. Nat Myers photo by Jacob Mahaffey.

5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

25 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

26 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

29 Jan 2019

Gallery Talk: New Perspectives with Teaching Fellows

This gallery tour will focus on the current exhibitions John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, through a close investigation of selected works by artists who use coded iconography and architecture to reveal layered individual and collective memories.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free; no reservation required

Drop-in Gallery Tours

29 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

3:00 pm–4:00 pm

Free

Performances

30 Jan 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

31 Jan 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

01 Feb 2019

Free Music Fridays

Jalopy Theatre Presents at the American Folk Art Museum: Queen Esther. Queen Esther photo by Tanya Braganti.

5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free

Families

02 Feb 2019

Families and Folk Art: Nightscape Drawings

Throughout the 1930s and 40s, Jamaican artist John Dunkley created nightscape paintings that tell complex stories of the nature, people, and scenes of his homeland. After a guided tour in the galleries, participants will use special glow-in-the-dark materials to create their own mysterious “drawings in the dark.”

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free; registration required

Register

Performances

06 Feb 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

07 Feb 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Access

07 Feb 2019

Folk Art Reflections

For individuals with Alzheimer’s and related dementias

2:30 pm–3:30 pm

Free

Discussions

07 Feb 2019

Post-Colonial Visions and John Dunkley

This panel discussion will expand on the historical and political context of exhibition artist John Dunkley’s lifetime in pre-independence Jamaica, including intersections with Marcus Garvey and Pan-Africanism.

6:30 pm–8:00 pm

$10 members, students, artists, and seniors; $12 general public

Purchase tickets

Performances

08 Feb 2019

Free Music Fridays

Laura Meyer, Kora Feder, and Greg Connors. Kora Feder photo by Alex Bohn.

5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

08 Feb 2019

Gallery Talk: New Perspectives with Teaching Fellows

This gallery tour will focus on the current exhibitions John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, through a close investigation of selected works by artists who use coded iconography and architecture to reveal layered individual and collective memories.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free; no reservation required

Drop-in Gallery Tours

09 Feb 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

13 Feb 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

14 Feb 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

15 Feb 2019

Free Music Fridays

Caitlin Mahoney, Boy Girl Banjo, and Thurston Ray. Boy Girl Banjo photo Jas Singh.

5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

16 Feb 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

20 Feb 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Drop-in Gallery Tours

21 Feb 2019

Closer-Look Tour

A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.

1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Free

Performances

22 Feb 2019

No Free Music Fridays Tonight

No performance this evening. Free Music Fridays returns in March 2019.

5:30 pm–7:30 pm

Free

Performances

27 Feb 2019

No Jazz + Wednesdays

No performance today. Jazz + Wednesdays returns March 20.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Performances

06 Mar 2019

No Jazz + Wednesdays

No performance today. Jazz + Wednesdays returns March 20.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Performances

13 Mar 2019

No Jazz + Wednesdays

No performance today. Jazz + Wednesdays returns March 20.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Performances

20 Mar 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Performances

27 Mar 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Performances

03 Apr 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Performances

10 Apr 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

Performances

17 Apr 2019

Jazz + Wednesdays

Each Wednesday, from 2 to 3 pm, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.

2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Free

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