The Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture Series highlights new and important contributions in the field of self-taught art and art brut. It takes place annually during the Outsider Art Fair in New York. The series honors the late Anne Hill Blanchard, an inspiring and passionate leader in the field and a devoted supporter of the American Folk Art Museum.
Past lectures have included:
2023
Heritage As a Tool for Innovation and Resistance
Jason Young on David Drake
Philip Deloria on Mary Sully
Tímea Junghaus on Ceija Stojka
2022
Valerie Cassel Oliver on Sister Gertrude Morgan
Jennifer Jane Marshall on William Edmondson
Esther Adler on Joseph Yoakum
2021
“Metamorphosis and Transformation”
Nicole R. Fleetwood on carceral aesthetics and Russell Craig
Erin O’Toole on April Dawn Alison
Elaine Y. Yau on Rosie Lee Tompkins
2020
Raphael Koenig on Yuichiro Ukai
Diana Seave Greenwald on James Castle
Jonathan Frederick Walz on Eddie Owens Martin (St. EOM)
2019
Kristin Otto on fantasy coffins (abebuu adekai)
Silvia Forni on Asafo flags
Ernie Wolfe on hand-painted movie posters from Ghana
2018
Barbara Paca on Antiguan artist Frank Walter
Nancy Josephson on Haitian artist Myrlande Constant and Haitian Vodou flags
Jacqueline Bishop on Jamaican artist Kemel Rankine
2017
Anne Monahan on Horace Pippin
Laura Steward on Jerry Gretzinger
Helga Christoffersen on Hilma af Klimt
2016
“Spiritual Technology: Self Taught Artists Consider the Cosmos”
Daniel Wojcik on Ionel Talpazan
Douglas Walla on Paul Laffoley
Misha Bittleston on his artwork
2015
“Emery Blagdon and His Healing Machine”
Presentations by Kelly Rush and John Yau
2014
“Henry Darger: 40 Years Later”
Presentations by Michael Bonesteel, James Brett, Jim Elledge, and Jane Kallir
2013
Edward Puchner on Minnie Evans
Lyle Rexner on Gayleen Aiken
Cara Zimmerman on George Widener
Jenny Moore on Rosemarie Trockel
2012
Carol Crown on Howard Finster
Charles Russell on Aloise Corbaz and Morris Hirshfield
Jane Kallir on Henry Darger
2011
Laura Gitlen on Michael Patterson-Carver
Brett Littman on Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Kendall Messick on Gordon Brinckle
Tom Whitehead on Clementine Hunter
2010
Shari Cavin on Timothy Wehrle
Scott Ogden on George Widener
Jarrett Gregory on Dorothy Lannone
Esther Adler on self-taught artists and the Museum of Modern Art
Event photos by Christine Wise and Elena Bernstein.
