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WORKS AND WORDS OF Naomi Polk, Black Folk Artist(18921984). For sale: 64 pieces visionary paintings, drawings, working sketches. Also notebooks containing original poems, essays. For information E-mail granni@flash.net or Fax 281-448-1248.
Folk Art Explorer Orren Bradley (left) with James Harold Jennings in Pinnacle, N.C., shortly before the artist's death. His obituary will appear in the fall issue.
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Folk Art Explorers Visit North Carolina hirty Museum members from across the country visited North Carolina on a Folk Art Explorers' Club tour for six days beginning Mar. 23. The itinerary included visits to private collections,folk artists, galleries, museums,several potters, and the preview gala for the second annual Catawba County Pottery Festival. Beth Bergin and Chris Cappiello in the membership department would like to thank Thomas
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Gray, Albert Hodge,Barry and Allen Huffman,Billy Ray Hussey, George Jacobs, Clyde Jones, Sam McMillan, Mike Smith, Brent Tharp, and Ginger Young for extending their hospitality to the group. The next Folk Art Explorers' Club tour is "Folk Art Along the Rhine," a ten-day trip to Amsterdam, Cologne,and Heidelberg, scheduled for Sept. 23 to Oct.4, 1999. For more information, please call the membership office at 212/977-7170.
"Anthology" Attendance Ranks with the Masters to a survey by The Art Newspaper, an international monthly ewspaper that covers museums,galleries, and auctions, the Museum's major traveling exhibition "Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology" was ranked 17th in daily attendance worldwide during its run at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art in the spring of 1998. The average daily attendance figure of 2,709 visitors places the exhibition among such venerated company as Vincent Van Gogh and Alexander Calder at the National Gallery of Art, Pierre Bonnard at London's Tate Gallery, and Claude Monet at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Americus Group Events Tie e Americus Group is the T Museum's newly formed a for folk art enthusiasts in their 20s and 30s. With a mission to open the doors of the world of folk art to a new generation, the Americus Group organizes social and educational events and publishes a bimonthly newsletter, Americus News! Still in its inaugural year, the Americus Group has dramatically increased the number of younger faces seen at the Museum's two annual benefits, the Fall Antiques Show and the Outsider Art Fair. In addition, the Americus Group has already successfully produced
a tour of two private collections, a guided walking tour of the Fall Antiques Show,a cocktail reception at Ricco/Maresca Gallery, and a tour of the Museum's exhibition "The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do" with curator Lee Kogan. The Americus Group has many more exciting events planned. If you are interested in being on the mailing list to receive Americus News!and notification of special Americus Group events, please contact Jennifer Scott, special events coordinator, at 212/977-7170.
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"Consider The Ant" 6 Cola Screen Print (Edition 100) 1994 $500
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