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TEEN DOCENT TAPE n the spring of2008,students from the Talent Unlimited High School in New York City who are enrolled in a condensed version ofthe Teen Docent Program transformed the museum's classroom into a unique work of art. Inspired by selftaught artists who use humble materials in their creations, they used blue painter's tape to cover one of the walls with a temporary mural featuring each student's
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MURAL likeness.The work was filled with intricate detail, from the zipper on a hooded sweatshirt to elaborately curly hair that seemed to jump offthe wall.The project complemented the teens'gallery experiences, during which they learned about the collection and strategies for guiding tours for other teens. The class was taught by docents Lenore Blank, Carol Gruber,and Roberta Krakoff.
Tape mural by the museum's artistic Teen Docents
GRAYSON PERRY LECTURE his year's annual Nathan work in the legendary 1979 show Lerner Memorial Lecture "Outsiders" at London's Hayward was delivered by the British Gallery, and it had a profound efartist and 2003 Turner Prize win- fect on him. ner Grayson Perry, who works in The event, held on April 16, video, photography,embroidery, was a rare opportunity to hear large-scale maps, and pottery,for this articulate, engaging speaker which he is best known.Two of discuss the complexities of his life his pots, which combine classiand artistic journey, his sources cally shaped,richly decorative ofinspiration, and his technical surfaces with disquieting themes process. Appearing as his alter such as violence, death, abuse, ego, Claire, Perry wore a colorful materialism, and sexual deviasmocklike dress with contrasting tion, were on view at the museum ruffled bloomers topped by a in the exhibition "Dargerism: teddy-bear necklace artfully deContemporary Artists and Henry signed by one of his students. Darger." Perry first saw Darger's
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PUBLICATIONS AWARDS wo museum publications were bestowed with awards in the last year. Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel, the catalog accompanying the museum's acclaimed exhibition, won the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category Visual Arts. Author and exhibition curator Murray Zimiles accepted the honor on March 4, 2008,during a ceremony at the Center for Jewish History in New York.The book was copublished with Brandeis University Press, an imprint of the University Press of New England. The museum's 2007 wall calendar,A Year ofFolk Art Quilts, was selected as a winner ofthe 2008 Museum Publications Design Competition organized by the American Association of Museums.Produced in kind by Barbara Lovenheim's BIL Charitable Trust and designed by Susan Huyser,it was awarded the second prize in the category Calendars.
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FAMILIES AND FOLK ART ast March,the museum tours in the galleries, participants launched Families and Folk enjoy hands-on artmaking activiArt, a newly redesigned proties inspired by the objects they gram for drop-in visitors to the have examined. museum. Held the first Saturday Reservations are not required. ofevery month from 1 to 2:30 PM, Participants meet at 1 PM these programs offer children ages at the admission desk. For more 4 to 12 and their adult companinformation, please contact ions an opportunity to explore Jennifer Kalter, manager ofschool and discuss folk art in a warm and and family programs, at 212/ engaging environment with other 265-1040,ext. 148,or family visitors of different ages and vary- programs@follcartmuseum.org. ing museum-going experiences. After interactive, discussion-based
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RECENT DONORS TO THE COLLECTION he museum is grateful to the following friends who have recently donated objects to the permanent collection: Altria Group,Inc.; Marcia Anscher; Anna Nelson Cruz; David L. Davies; Peter Dek Dusinberre III, Lynn Dusinberre, Jill Dusinberre Hickman & Kaitlyn Hickman Dolan;Sam & Betsey Farber;Jane Ferrara; Jacqueline Loewe Fowler; Charlotte Frank; Mark and Laura Goldman; Grassroots Arts and Community Efforts; Ruth Hartshorne; ICristina Johnson; May Jones; Nancy F. Green Karlins &Mark Thoman; Elinor M.Knapp;Jay Koment; Mary Koto; Betty Kuyk; Bruce Lineker; George Meyer; Gloria Bley Miller; David T Owsley & Sam Meredith Family/AlcondaOwsley Foundation;J. Randall Plummer &Harvey S. Shipley Miller; Dorothea & Leo Rabkin; Rev. Alfred R. Shands; Mr.& Mrs. Alan Weinstein; George Widener; and Susan Yecies.
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