Curator’s Tour of the American Folk Art Museum
When:
Friday, February 6
6-7pm
Admission:
Free | Open to Members at the Partner level and above
Space is extremely limited. Please email development@boscobel.org to reserve your spot
Details:
Join the American Folk Art Museum’s Art Bridges Fellow, Austin Losada, for an exclusive tour of their current exhibition, An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles.
Together, we’ll explore highlights and gain expert insights from the show’s Co-Curator, with conversation and questions in an intimate, members-only setting.
Transportation to and from New York City is not included. Please meet outside the American Folk Art Museum at 5:45pm (Located at 2 Lincoln Square)
This event is part of Curator’s Choice, Boscobel’s quarterly member series featuring experts in the American Decorative Arts and beyond, designed as thoughtfully curated experiences for meaningful access and conversation.
About The American Folk Art Museum
Candid, genuine, and unexpected, they are New York City’s only museum dedicated to folk & self-taught artists. Since 1961, the Museum has celebrated the creativity of individuals whose singular talents have been refined largely through personal experience rather than formal artistic training.
Their collection includes more than seven thousand works of art from four centuries and nearly every continent—from compelling portraits and dazzling quilts to powerful works by living artists in a variety of mediums.
From critically acclaimed exhibitions and publications to inspiring educational programs and robust community outreach, their mission is to be the leading forum shaping the understanding and appreciation of folk and self-taught art across time and place.
About Austin Losada
Austin Losada is the Art Bridges Curatorial, Collections & Exhibitions Fellow at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. He is a scholar and curator of American art and material culture with a specialty in the history of photography from its invention to the present day. Losada earned his M.A. in Material Culture Studies from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware and a B.A. in Art History and German from Rutgers University. He previously served as the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Graduate Intern at the Zimmerli Art Museum where he curated several exhibitions, including “Beauty Among the Ordinary Things”: The Photographs of William Armbruster.
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