Join SAAM for a Panel Discussion on Self-Taught Art

Join SAAM for a fascinating half-day symposium on self-taught art with insights into the featured artists in We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection.

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Explore the Field of Self-Taught Art

We Are Made of Stories: Selfhood and Experience in Art / The Margaret Z. Robson Symposium Series

Friday, October 7, 1–6 p.m. ET
In Person and Online

Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for a half-day symposium focusing on recent scholarship centering on the critical role of content and culture in the field of self-taught American art. Highlighted for their creative abilities, a five-speaker panel addresses artists Joseph Yoakum, Henry Darger, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sam Doyle, Judith Scott, and Dan Miller, who challenged the notions of invisibility and historical hierarchies. Co-moderated by Leslie Umberger, SAAM’s curator of folk and self-taught art, and Tom di Maria, director emeritus of Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA.

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In-Person Attendees
Visitors attending the program in person who arrive after a speaker has begun will be asked to wait in the lobby until there is a break to be seated with minimal disruption.

Virtual Attendees
Online participants must be subscribed toSAAM’s YouTube channel 24 hours in advance to participate in the chat and ask a question that may be answered live by the speakers during the program.

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Program Credit: Support for "We Are Made of Stories: Selfhood and Experience in Art / The Margaret Z. Robson Symposium Series" is provided by Douglas O. Robson.

Image Credit: Judith Scott, Untitled (Medicine Bottle), 1996, mixed media and string, 32 × 24 × 15 in., Collection of Douglas O. Robson from the Robson Family Collection, Promised gift to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Courtesy of Creative Growth.

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