Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$50 ($40 members; $25 students with valid ID)
Ticket includes 2-day General Admission and a box lunch on Saturday.
In this symposium, scholars, artists, curators, and critics explore how outsider art intersects with mainstream modern and contemporary art. Outsider artists are untrained individuals who often employ unusual materials and methods to create their art independently of familiar styles, trends, or movements. They rarely have the advantages of money, education, or art-school training. Instead, the inventiveness and storytelling aspects of their works are fueled by their personal narratives and by popular culture.
Speakers include:
Anne Bowler, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Delaware
Lynne Cooke, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC
Bernard L. Herman, George B. Tindall Professor of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John Ollman of Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia
Colin Rhodes, Dean, Sydney College of the Arts
Leslie Umberger, Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
The symposium is supported by the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Friday, March 1
6:30-7:30 p.m. Keynote Address
"Wilhelm Uhde, Primitivism and Modernity: Paris 1900"
Joseph Rishel, The Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900, and Senior Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection and the Rodin Museum
Van Pelt Auditorium
$12 ($10 members;$5 students with valid ID)
Ticket required. Museum admission not required to attend this program.
Saturday, March 2
Tickets $50 ($40 members; $25 students with valid ID); includes Museum admission on Saturday and Sunday and a box lunch on Saturday
8:30 a.m. Registration
9:15 a.m. Welcome
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. First Session: Parallel Visions
- "When Parallel Lines Meet", Lynne Cooke, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC
- "Outsider Art and Modernism's Founding Myths," Anne Bowler, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Second Session: Intersections
- "Artist Driven: The Genesis of Contemporary Self-Taught Collections," John Ollman, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- "Confluence and Divergence: Overlapping Spheres of Self-taught and Trained Artists," Leslie Umberger, Curator of Folk and Self-taught Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
12:15- 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
- Carlos Basualdo, The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Bernard L. Herman, George B. Tindall Professor of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Ann Percy, Curator of Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Colin Rhodes, Dean, Professor of Art History & Theory, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Cara Zimmerman, Executive Director, Foundation for Self-Taught Artists, New York, NY
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