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NATCHITOCHES — Northwestern State University will host a two-day conference, “Divine Disorder, Conserving the Chaos; Conference on the Conservation of Folk and Outsider Art” on Feb. 15-16. The conference is sponsored by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, a unit of the National Park Service.
According to Jason Church, materials conservator in the Materials Conservation Program of the NCPTT, the conference is focused on highlighting the under-appreciated decorative works of non-traditional artists.
“The conservation of these works is vital to preserving the life story of those artists outside the main stream art community,” Church said. “Artists come from all walks of life and every ethnic background. Folk and outsider art is many times strongly patriotic, intensely spiritual, but always deeply personal. If not preserved we lose the window into the lives of the artists and their folk traditions.”
The program will be held in Magale Recital Hall and will feature two days of contributed papers. Among the presenters are Northwestern State Professor Emeritus of Journalism Tommy Whitehead, who will discuss “Clementine Hunter, History of Forgery” and Shane Rasmussen, director of the Louisiana Folklife Center at NSU, and Matt DeFord, coordinator of art at NSU, whose topic will be “Unicultural Ethnography: Preserving Outsider Art Through the Ethnography of Individual Outsider Artists.”
The conference includes presenters from throughout the United States, Canada and Europe including representatives from the National Gallery of Art and the American Folk Art Museum.
To learn more about the conference, go to ncptt.nps.gov/divine-disorder.
NATCHITOCHES — Northwestern State University will host a two-day conference, “Divine Disorder, Conserving the Chaos; Conference on the Conservation of Folk and Outsider Art” on Feb. 15-16. The conference is sponsored by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, a unit of the National Park Service.
According to Jason Church, materials conservator in the Materials Conservation Program of the NCPTT, the conference is focused on highlighting the under-appreciated decorative works of non-traditional artists.
“The conservation of these works is vital to preserving the life story of those artists outside the main stream art community,” Church said. “Artists come from all walks of life and every ethnic background. Folk and outsider art is many times strongly patriotic, intensely spiritual, but always deeply personal. If not preserved we lose the window into the lives of the artists and their folk traditions.”
The program will be held in Magale Recital Hall and will feature two days of contributed papers. Among the presenters are Northwestern State Professor Emeritus of Journalism Tommy Whitehead, who will discuss “Clementine Hunter, History of Forgery” and Shane Rasmussen, director of the Louisiana Folklife Center at NSU, and Matt DeFord, coordinator of art at NSU, whose topic will be “Unicultural Ethnography: Preserving Outsider Art Through the Ethnography of Individual Outsider Artists.”
The conference includes presenters from throughout the United States, Canada and Europe including representatives from the National Gallery of Art and the American Folk Art Museum.
To learn more about the conference, go to ncptt.nps.gov/divine-disorder.
