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