Conference on the conservation of folk and outsider art

Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk Art
High Museum of Art in Atlanta
February 24-26, 2015

Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk Art
This conference will take place on February 24-26, 2015 in the Hill
Auditorium of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and
Paradise Gardens in Summerville, Georgia.

This conference is focused on highlighting the under appreciated
decorative works of non-traditional artists.  The conservation of
these works is vital to preserving the life story of those artists
outside the main stream art community.  Artists come from all walks
of life and every ethnic background, Folk and Outsider art is many
times strongly patriotic, intensely spiritual, but always deeply
personal.  If not preserved we lose the window into the lives of the
artists and their folk traditions.

The program will feature two days of contributed papers.  The final
day of the conference February 26, 2015 will take place at Paradise
Garden and will feature talks on the Gardens as well as hands-on
workshop components.

Day One
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

    8:30 am         Registration
    9:00 am         Welcome

                    "Extraordinary Legacy: the Folk Art Collection
                    of the High Museum of Art"
                        Susan Crawley

                    "How is the Conservation of Outsider/Folk Art
                    Unique?  Or is it?"
                        Appelbaum and Paul Himmelstein

                    Round Table Discussion: Outsider Art is it
                    appreciated?

                    "Art Environments: Curatorial Roles and
                    Responsibilities"
                        Farb Hernandez

                    "Where there is Doubt, Faith: A Case Study in
                    the Community-Based Preservation Efforts of
                    Margaret's Grocery and the L.V. Hull Home"
                        Jennifer Joy Jameson

                    "Treatment Considerations for a Newly-discovered
                    Madonna Ramirez"
                         Susan M. Peckham

                    "Revisiting Clementine Hunter's Murals at
                    African House"
                        Jill Whitten and Robert Proctor

    3:30pm          Break for the participants to view the folk art
                    collection of the High Museum

    6 - 8 pm         Opening Reception at Lord Aeck and Sargent

Day Two
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

    8:30 am         Registration 9:00 am

                    "Kohler Foundation, the Journey to Preserve
                    Vernacular Art"
                        Terri Yoho

                    "Pasaquan, the Journey Continues"
                        Peter Schoenmann and Shane Winter

                    "Expression of Faith and Fear: The Chauvin
                    Sculpture Garden by Kenny Hill"
                        Deborah Cibelli

                    "How to Move a Mountain: the Documentation and
                    Display of Displaced Art Environments"
                        Karen Patterson

                    Roundtable Discussion: The issues of conserving
                    a folk art site in-situ vs displacing the art.

                    "E.T. Wickham: The Intersection of Family and
                    Preservation"
                    Brittany Wickham Walker

                    "James Hampton's Throne of the Third Heaven of
                    the Nations' Millennium General Assembly"
                    Helen Ingalls

                    Roundtable Discussion: What are the Priorities
                    for the Future?

                    "Producer/Process/Production The Sacred Chaos of
                    Preserving the Artist and/or the Art"
                    Norman Girardot

                    "Prophecy in Exterior Latex: Documenting the
                    Message of Isaiah Robertson"
                    Fred Scruton

                    Round Table Discussion: Documentation of the
                    Artist versus the Art

    3:30pm          Talks end

Day Three Thursday
February 26, 2015

    8:30 am         Bus leaves for Paradise Gardens (picking up in
                    the parking lot of the High Museum)

    10:00 am        Welcome
                        Jordan Poole

                    "Early Struggles"
                        Beverly Finster-Guinn

                    "Current Preservation Planning"
                        Susan Turner and J. Keyes Williamson

                    "Revival"
                        Jordan Poole

                    Roundtable Discussion: Preservation Plans:
                    Reality Versus Planning

                    Lunch on your own at Sweet P's at the Tavern

                    Hands on round robins in the Garden (the
                    activities will change depending on weather)

                    Roundtable Discussion: Future Priorities for
                    Outsider Art

    4:30 pm         Bus Leaves for High Museum

Cost of the conference is:

    $299            Registration
    $99             Student Registration
                    limited student seats are available.  Student
                    must provide photocopy of current student ID.

Jason Church
Materials Conservator
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
645 University Parkway
Natchitoches LA 71457
318-356-7444
Fax: 318-356-9119


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