The New York Public Library

 

presents

 

An Artist Dialogue Series Event 

 

Katherine Knauer

In conversation with

Stacy C. Hollander

 

Saturday October 29, 2016

2:30 p.m. 

 

The Corner Room 
1^st Floor

  

The New York Public Library

Mid-Manhattan Library

455 Fifth Avenue at 40^th Street

New York, NY 10016

917-275-6975

 www.nypl.org

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Event is free. Registration is recommended.

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Katherine Knauer, artist / quilt maker, and Stacy C. Hollander, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at American Folk Art Museum, converse about Knauer's evolution as an artist, her Art in the Windows  and  Art Wall on Third exhibitions as well as the broader history of the important quilt making tradition in America.

 

Katherine Knauer has been an artist and craftsperson her entire life. Inspired by a 1976 exhibition of antique quilts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she began making quilts that year. Since 1984, printing her own fabric by means of hand-stenciling, silk-screening and digital printing has enabled her to focus on a specific theme in each of her works.   Her award-winning quilts have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. Katherine lives and works in New York City, which she describes as “an endless visual banquet.”

 

Stacy C. Hollander is Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Chief Curator, and Director of Exhibitions at the American Folk Art Museum. She has served as curator and cocurator of numerous exhibitions for the museum, including Mystery and Benevolence: The Masonic and Odd Fellows Collection of Kendra and Allan Daniel (2016), Self-Taught Genius, Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions (2012), Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands (2010), Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern (2009) and The Seduction of Light: Mark Rothko | Ammi Phillip: Compositions in Pink, Green, and Red (2008), White on White (and a little gray) (2006), and as project coordinator of Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts (2011). Selected writings as author and coauthor include Mystery and Benevolence: The Masonic and Odd Fellows Collection of Kendra and Allan Daniel (2016); Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum (2014), The Seduction of Light: Mark Rothko | Ammi Phillip: Compositions in Pink, Green, and Red (2008), American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (2000). Hollander has also published on a wide range of folk art topics in magazines, scholarly journals, catalogs, and encyclopedias, and has lectured in the United States and abroad. Hollander received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her MA in American folk art studies from New York University. 

 

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni in 2004, Artist Dialogues Series provide an open forum for understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. Artists are paired with critics, curators, gallerists, writers or other artists to converse about art and the potential of exploring new ideas.

 

The event is free and advanced registration is recommended. 

 

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