The Art of Minnie Evans: A Conversation  Wed, Sept 9, 2026, 5:30–7 pm

The Art of Minnie Evans: A Conversation 

Wed, Sept 9, 2026
5:30–7 pm

Colorful, symmetrical painting by Minnie Evans. At the center, a face emerges from layered flowers, leaves, and ornate patterns, flanked by two green animal figures. Above, four golden-faced figures with headdresses face inward. Large white-winged angels hover on both sides, accompanied by floating eyes, flowers, clouds, and a rainbow. Two setting suns sit below.
Colorful, symmetrical painting by Minnie Evans. At the center, a face emerges from layered flowers, leaves, and ornate patterns, flanked by two green animal figures. Above, four golden-faced figures with headdresses face inward. Large white-winged angels hover on both sides, accompanied by floating eyes, flowers, clouds, and a rainbow. Two setting suns sit below.

Minnie Evans, Untitled (Day to Night with Beasts and Angels), 1966. Crayon and pencil on paper, 14 7/8 × 19 3/4 in. (37.78 × 50. 16 cm). Collection of ChrisVan Daniel. © The Estate of Minnie Evans

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Floor 3, Theater and Online, via Zoom

Join us for a conversation about the art and life of Minnie Evans on the occasion of The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans and Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists at the American Folk Art Museum, both of which highlight the artist's unique mixed-media drawing practice.

Co-presented with the American Folk Art Museum, this program reconsiders Evans’s position within American art, exploring her practice in relation to different historical lineages. The speakers will share reflections on Evans’ vital sense of color, shape, and place while recontextualizing her otherworldly landscapes within the artistic traditions of the American South.

Following the panel, ticket holders are invited to view The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans.

Speakers 

Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator 

Katherine Jentleson, Senior Curator of American Art and the Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art

Valerie Rousseau, Curatorial Chair and Senior Curator of 20th-Century & Contemporary Art at the American Folk Art Museum

Alison Saar, artist 

With introductory remarks by Barbara Haskell, Curator


On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
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Learn more about this project

Learn more at whitney.org/artport

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