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Visit • About • Exhibitions • Calendar • Support • Shop Discover what thousands of quiltmakers, antiques aficionados, and folk art supporters across the country already know—the best way to experience the American Folk Art Museum is as a member. We need your support! During our Spring Membership Drive, help us meet our goal of welcoming two hundred new members to the museum and be part of the museum’s Year of the Quilt. Your membership will entitle you to attend exhibition opening-night receptions, visit the museum free of charge all year long, enjoy a subscription to The Magazine Antiques, receive great discounts at our exceptional Book and Gift Shop, and much more! Join the American Folk Art Museum today! Current Exhibitions Perspectives: Forming the Figure (through August 21, 2011) The idea of character is thematically relevant to a deeper exploration of traditional folk art and the work of contemporary self-taught artists, a far-reaching field that pervades a broad spectrum of American culture and reflects many different communities. This exhibition, the second installment of the “Perspectives” series organized by the museum’s education department, examines some of the many facets of figure in works from the permanent collection. More > Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (through October 9, 2011) “Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: ‘Freelance Artist—Poet and Sculptor—Inovator—Arrow maker and Plant man—Bone artifacts constructor—Photographer and Architect—Philosopher’” focuses on the formal leitmotifs of leaves and floral patterns as organizing principles in Von Bruenchenhein’s multidisciplinary oeuvre. More > Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (Part I: through April 24, 2011; Part II: May 10–October 16, 2011) Part I of this exhibition launched the Year of the Quilt, the museum’s celebration of a glorious American art form and the creative contributions of three centuries of talented women. Highlighting textile masterpieces in the collection, the presentations include recent gifts, bedcovers that have rarely been on view, and important cornerstones of the museum’s comprehensive quilt holdings. More > Super Stars: Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum (through September 25, 2011, at the museum’s Branch Location at 2 Lincoln Square) Quiltmakers have always sought inspiration from the world around them, introducing the outdoors into the domestic interior through bedcovers that may reflect the colors of the landscape, the imagery of flowers in a garden, or animal and insect life. These associations are explored in the exhibition “Super Stars,” which highlights the dazzling diversity of this variable pattern in more than one hundred years of quilt artistry. More > Upcoming Exhibitions, Programs, and Events Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts March 25–30 at the Park Avenue Armory For six days in March, the American Folk Art Museum will dramatically transform the Park Avenue Armory’s historic 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall with the installation of 650 red and white American quilts, all of which are on loan from the collection of Joanna S. Rose. It will be the largest exhibition of quilts ever held in the city. As an extraordinary gift to the public, entry to this unprecedented event will be free. A café and a book and gift shop will be open during show hours. For program information, . Tours and Exhibition Programs For a full calendar of tours and gallery programs, click here. All tours and exhibition programs are open to the public and free with museum admission. Info: 212. 265. 1040, ext. 381, or grouptours@folkartmuseum.org. Alzheimer’s Program: Folk Art Reflections Thursdays, March 3 and 17, 2–3:30 pm The museum is pleased to offer Folk Art Reflections, interactive and discussion-based programs for individuals with Alzheimer’s and their family members or caregivers. Twice every month, museum educators and docents explore a different theme or artist with the participants, bringing the world of folk art to life through conversation. Info/registration: 212. 265. 1040, ext. 381. Registration required. Museum admission and program are free. Folk Art Reflections is offered the first and third Thursday of every month. Year of the Quilt Workshop: A Little Bit of Paradise Saturday, March 5 11 am–3 pm Instructor: Diane Schneck, quiltmaker Make your own small appliqué quilt based on a block from the museum’s iconic Bird of Paradise Quilt Top. The workshop will introduce participants to the back-basting method, which enables the production of perfect blocks without the use of templates. Also learn how to improve technique, make invisible stitches, and add embroidered details to a block. More> Level: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Workshop fee: $50; $45 members, seniors, and students Registration: 212. 265. 1040, ext. 105 (space is limited) Families and Folk Art: Stitched Stories Saturday, March 5 1 pm Families and Folk Art introduces children ages 4 to 12 and their accompanying adults to folk art through interactive and discussion-based tours followed by hands-on artmaking activities inspired by objects in the museum. This month, see what the details woven into a work of textile art can tell us about a person, a place, or a community many years after the object was created. Explore the museum and view the exhibition Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. Families will use yarn to make their own works of art to take home. Info: 212. 265. 1040, ext. 148, or familyprograms@folkartmuseum.org. Free with museum admission. Families and Folk Art is offered the first Saturday of every month. Families and Folk Art is supported by Phyllis L. Kossoff. Year of the Quilt Workshop: Fabric Manipulation Saturday, April 2 11 am–3 pm The Cathedral Window, a classic quilt pattern, is seemingly complicated because the secret of its construction is hidden behind the window. The illusion is created by manipulating a section of the pattern folded on a bias edge. Participants will explore several updated patterns using the folded bias edge to construct what amounts to dimensional blocks reminiscent of Japanese origami. If you love to play with fabric to create something magical, this workshop is for you. Please bring a basic sewing kit, including needles, thread, and pins. A list of fabrics and additional tools to bring will be provided upon registration. Project will be executed by hand. Level: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Workshop fee: $50; $45 members, seniors, and students Registration: 212. 265. 1040, ext. 105 (space is limited) Folk Art Fun Connect and Interact with the Museum The American Folk Art Museum has a YouTube channel. Watch senior curator Stacy C. Hollander and guest curator Elizabeth V. Warren highlight some of the many quilts currently on view in “Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum” and check back often for more behind-the-scenes tours and collection highlights. We have also launched a Flickr group so that visitors to the museum may share photos. If you have images you would like to share with us, join our group and upload them. And don′t forget to stay in touch with the museum through Facebook by becoming a fan and to follow the museum on Twitter. Collection Highlight According to tradition, this quilt was made by a male tailor who reportedly used remnants of satin and velvet linings for what was probably a parlor throw. Samuel Steinberger was one of the immigrants who poured into New York ports of entry from areas of Eastern Europe in the last decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. Many of these immigrants were Jews fleeing mounting oppressions in the 1880s. A large number were trained in the textile trades and congregated in a small area on the Lower East Side, which quickly became New York City’s first predominantly Jewish neighborhood and one of the most heavily populated areas of the country. Steinberger’s quilt is an unusual variation of the Courthouse Steps pattern. Atypical changes in color and fabric—the substitution of a light color where a dark would be expected, for instance—give the quilt a visual unpredictability that is different from the regularity usually associated with Log Cabins. Shop Highlight Red and White Quilt Magnets This stunning set of magnets features details of quilts that will be on view March 25–30, 2011, in the exhibition “Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts,” presented by the American Folk Art Museum at the Park Avenue Armory. The largest exhibition of quilts ever to be held in New York City, the installation will include 650 American red and white quilts from the private collection of Joanna S. Rose. Sixty-three 1-inch-square magnets per set. 8 x 24 in. regular price: $18.00 member price: $14.40 To order, please call 212. 265. 1040, ext. 124. Folk Art Challenge Thanks to everyone who entered February’s Folk Art Fun contest and congratulations to our winner, Carole Conway. The heart-and-hand is generally associated with love or friendship and probably originated from Valentine’s Day customs. In one tradition, a woman gave a man her glove, which he then wore pinned to his sleeve for the duration of the day. The well-known phrase “wearing your heart on your sleeve” derives from this custom. This month’s challenge: Joseph Garlock (1884–1980) was a fearless artistic experimenter from the time he retired at the age of 64. At his daughter’s suggestion, he devoted himself to painting and sculpture, creating a thousand artworks over a ten-year period in a variety of styles and materials. He was influenced by popular culture and carved and painted recollections of his life in Czarist Russia and of contemporary Jewish life, as well as landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits. Prior to his retirement Joseph Garlock worked in Bloomfield, New Jersey, doing what? To win a copy of Painted Saws/Jacob Kass, e-mail your answer to Elizabeth Kingman at ekingman@folkartmuseum.org, with “Folk Art Fun” . LEAVES and FLOWERS / Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) / Milwaukee / c. 1940s–1970s / clay and paint on clay / various dimensions / collection of Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz / photo by Gavin Ashworth IN THE WORLD (detail) / Consuelo “Chelo” González Amézcua (1903–1975) / Del Rio, Texas / 1962 / ballpoint pen on paper / 28 x 22 in. / American Folk Art Museum, Blanchard-Hill Collection, gift of M. Anne Hill and Edward V. Blanchard Jr., 1998.10.1 / photo by Gavin Ashworth UNTITLED (detail) / Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) / Milwaukee / c. 1940s–mid-1950s / gelatin silver print / 10 x 8 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of Lewis and Jean Greenblatt, 2000.1.4 / photo by Gavin Ashworth HARLEQUIN MEDALLION QUILT (detail) / artist unidentified / New England / 1800–1820 / glazed wool / 87 x 96 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of Cyril Irwin Nelson in loving memory of his grandparents John Williams and Sophie Anna Macy, 1984.33.1 / photo by Matt Hoebermann STAR OF BETHLEHEM WITH SATELLITE STARS QUILT (detail) / artist unidentified / possibly Pennsylvania / 1930–1950 / cotton and blends / 81 1/4 x 81 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Danziger, 1985.4.1 VORTEX QUILT (detail) / artist unidentified / United States / 1890–1910 / pieced and appliquéd cotton / 82 x 80 in. / collection of Joanna S. Rose / photo by Gavin Ashworth PLAYING CARDS / Clementine Hunter (1886/87–1988) / Natchitoches, Louisiana / 1970 / oil on canvas board / 18 x 24 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of the Mildred Hart Bailey/Clementine Hunter Art Trust, 1996.1.2 / photo by Gavin Ashworth BIRD OF PARADISE QUILT TOP (detail) / artist unidentified / vicinity of Albany, New York / 1858–1863 / cotton, wool, and silk with ink and silk embroidery / 84 1/2 x 69 5/8 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of the Trustees, 1979.7.1 / photo by Gavin Ashworth LOG CABIN QUILT, COURTHOUSE STEPS VARIATION / Samuel Steinberger (1865–c. 1934) / New York City / 1890–1910 / silk / 69 1/2 x 58 in. (framed) / American Folk Art Museum, gift of Cyril Irwin Nelson in honor of Robert Bishop, American Folk Art Museum director (1977–1991), 1990.17.8 / photo by Gavin Ashworth SELF-PORTRAIT / Joseph Garlock (1884–1980) / Woodstock, New York, or New Jersey / 1957 / paint on wood / 15 1/2 x 6 x 2 5/8 in. / American Folk Art Museum, gift of Suzanne M. Richie, 2003.18.1 / photo by Gavin Ashworth connect with us   This e-mail was sent from American Folk Art Museum Immediate removal with ® Secure. To forward this e-mail to a friend or colleague, . To change your e-mail address or update preferences, .