Vernacular Visionaries Public Programs

Vernacular Visionaries:
International Outsider Art in Context
on exhibition through August 29, 2004

Grand Finale Events

Friday August 27- Conversation in the Gallery
4 pm
Analyst Leana Foster Melat returns to the Vernacular Visionaries gallery for another conversation about outsider art.

Friday, August 27-Films
5:30 - 8 p.m.
Films about visionary art including:
The Serpent & the Cross (Australian Aboriginal artists)
The Angel that Stands by Me: Minnie Evans' Paintings
Grandma's Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa Prisbrey
Short Films by Bruno Decharme about artists Alexandre Lobanov, Gene Merritt & Henry Darger
Free!

Saturday August 28
1-3:30 pm
Symposium Vernacular Visionaries: Looking Back/Looking Forward
Vernacular Visionaries: Then and Now with exhibition curator Annie Carlano; Renowned Outsider Art
Scholar Roger Cardinal, The Wild Beast Paintings of Swiss Artist Christine Sefolosha; and The One and the Many:
Homeground in Jamaican Art with Independent Scholar Randall Morris.
A reception hosted by the Museum of New Mexico Women's Board follows. By museum admission.

Sunday, August 29
1 to 4 p.m.
All ages hands on art activity with Artist/Educator Aurelia Gomez inspired by the work of
Anna Zemánková in the Vernacular Visionaries exhibition. By museum admission,
NM residents with I.D. Free on Sundays. See more events and activities for families & children »

PHOTO, left:
Untitled, 1960's
Oil pastel on paper, 34 1/2 x 24 1/2
Museum of International Folk Art, Gift of Thomas Isenberg

Sunday, August 29
3 pm- Vernacular Visionaries: Looking Back
Final walk through the gallery with Vernacular Visionaries curator Annie Carlano.
By museum admission.

Past Vernacular Visionaries Events

January 2004
January 4: Diane Karp, Director, Santa Fe Art Institute.
January 11: Susan McGreevy, Former Director of the Wheelwright Museum & Exhibition catalog contributor
January 18: Barbara Rose and Ed Okun, collectors of outsider art
Friday, January 23:
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
FREE Admission to three award-winning films about US Visionary Art:
The Angel that Stands by Me: Minnie Evans Paintings
Possum Trot: The Life and Work of Calvin Black
Grandma's Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa Prisbrey.
Sunday, January 25:
2- 4 p.m. Two films about International Visionary environments.
By Museum admission, New Mexico residents with I.D. FREE on Sundays. Journey Into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker Program I. French Visionary environments including Les Rochers Sculptés, La Maison á Vaisselle Casseè, La Jardin du Coquillage, The House of M.G., Maison Picassiette, Village d'Art Préludien, and Le Palais Idéal.
- Intermission -
Journey Into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker Program II. More visionary environments including Edward James Las Pozas, Tower of Apocalypse in Belgium, "Mini Europe", Visionary Village, House of Blues, Calioca in Germany, Karl Junker House, Bruno Fever in Zurich, the Museum de l'art Brut in Lausanne and the Nek Chand garden.
Both films are produced by Nova and are 50 minutes long.

February 2004
February 1: John Tinker, Artist & Exhibition designer for Vernacular Visionaries
February 15: Paul Smutko, Artist and MOIFA Collections Manager
February 22: Leana Foster Melat, Jungian Psychotherapist& Ph.D. Cultural Mythologist
February 29: Eugenie and Lael Johnson, Chicago collectors of outsider art

March 2004
March 7: Nicholas Herrera, Artist
March 21: Leslie Muth, Director/Owner, Leslie Muth Gallery
March 28: Charles Stainback, Director, SITE Santa Fe

Thursday April 22- OPEN LATE & FREE!
5:30 - 8:00 pm
Tour the galleries and/or take in a film: The Serpent and the Cross, a film exploring Australian Aboriginal Art
From the Visions of Paradise series: Hundred and Two Mature: The Art of Harry Lieberman;
And The Monument of Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder.