| 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. | 