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Found
in the Making: Films about Self-Taught Artists
When
conformity is often prized over eccentricity in our society,
what kind of bravery does it take to believe in your own ideas
and intentions and shut everything else out? The Foundation
for Self-Taught American Artists believes imagination should
be rewarded and aims to create a deeper understanding and broader
appreciation of self-taught art through the production and promotion
of documentary films.
Wednesday,
May 12 at 7pm
Purvis
of Overtown
dir.
David Raccuglia and Shaun Conrad, US, 2006, 67 mins, DVD, color
Director
David Raccuglia and executive producer Matt Arnett
in person
 After
serving a prison sentence for breaking and entering, Purvis
Young returned to Overtown, the Miami neighborhood of his youth.
During his incarceration he had taught himself to paint, and
in Overtown he began to chronicle almost obsessively its history
and multicultural flavor, its streets and characters, its anecdotes
of daily life, and its mythologies of survival. He soon transformed
a rundown street, referred to as Goodbread Alley by locals,
into an outdoor museum filled with his paintings. Over the last
forty years, Purvis Young has become a nationally acclaimed
artist whose impassioned style and keen eye are inseparable
from his sense of place. Screened at over twenty film festivals,
including the New York and Miami International Film Festivals,
this award-winning documentary offers a rare glimpse into the
life and work of a master painter.
Free
admission members above Internationalist level; $5 Internationalists;
$6
students + seniors; $8 general admission. In advance at TICKETWEB
or 1/2 hour before showtime at The Ibrahim Theater Box Office.
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