American Folk Art, American Outsider Art and American Self-Taught Art

American Folk, Outsider and Self-Taught Art

Online video

(above: Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch, c. 1826 -1830, oil on canvas, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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The Indianapolis Museum of Art produced a video series titled Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial, available online through ArtBabble. According to ArtBabble, "Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial highlights the artist's significant contribution to the field of American art and shows how Dial's work speaks to the most pressing issues of our time-including the war in Iraq, 9/11, and social issues like racism and homelessness. The exhibition presents 70 of Dial's large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures, including 25 works on view for the first time. Spanning twenty years of his work as an artist, it is the most extensive showing of his art ever mounted" Accessed June, 2015.

Kentucky Educational Television offers a series of 1/2 hour videos from Mixed, a weekly arts series starting in 2003. See: Program 723: Husband-and-wife folk artists Ronald and Jessie Cooper from Fleming County, the Leeds Center for the Arts in Winchester, and music by Louisville singer/songwriter Janis Pruitt. Accessed May, 2015.

Included in the Philadelphia Museum of Arts presentation for the exhibition "Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, held at the Museum March 3 - June 9, 2013, is an eight minute online gallery tour narrated by Curator Ann Percy and Curatorial Assistant Cara Zimmerman. Descriptions of certain other exhibitions include similar videos. Accessed May, 2015.

PBS previously broadcast Egg: The Arts Show. A segment presents Manhattan's annual Outsider Art Fair features 32 galleries and hundreds of artists from around the world. For the past 8 years, the Puck Building in Manhattan's chic Soho neighborhood has opened its doors to city folk seeking out the most unique and creative works of Outsider Art.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum produced a video titled Meet William Christenberry, available online through ArtBabble. According to ArtBabble, "From the American Art Museum at the Smithsonian Institution: Meet artist William Christenberry in his studio as he talks about his childhood inspirations growing up in Alabama. Working with found objects and constructing pieces based on memory, Christenberry describes his unique approach to art making." Accessed June, 2015.

The High Museum of Art produced a video titled FOLK ART (CONVERSATIONS WITH A CURATOR, EPISODE 1, available online through ArtBabble. According to ArtBabble, "Get an inside look at pieces in the High's Folk Art Collection. Personal insights are from Susan Crawley, the High's Curator of Folk Art. To learn more about Folk Art at the High, visit www.High.org/folkart" Also see Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4. Accessed June, 2015.

The WGBH/Boston Forum Network is an audio and video streaming web site dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures, including a number of videos on Art and Architecture. Partners include a number of museums, colleges, universities and other cultural organizations. See listings of related videos in this catalogue indexed by partner name. High Museum of Art partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art with discussion by Susan Crawley, curator, High Museum of Art, Carol Crown, assoc professor, art history, U Memphis, Charles Russell, assoc director, Rutgers Institute and Charles Reagan Wilson, director, Center for Southern Culture. (1 hour, 24 minutes) The High Museum's Susan Crawley, associate curator of folk art, moderates a panel discussion inspired by Carol Crown and Charles Russell's recent publication Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art. Noted scholars discuss self-taught art in a cultural context. [April 12, 2007] Accessed May, 2015.

Online audio

PBS presents "Audio Tour: Henry Darger - Selected Works." Listeners take an interactive audio tour through several of Henry Darger's works, led by Brooke Davis Anderson, director and curator of the Contemporary Center at the American Folk Art Museum. From PBS. Accessed August, 2015.

(above, Joshua Johnson, A Baltimore Shipowner, c. 1815, oil on canvas, 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches, Bill Hodges Gallery. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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