Found
in the Making - Films About Self-Taught Artists
Co-presented
by the Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists
Most
self-taught artists come from very humble backgrounds. Their
resonant stories demonstrate that artistic achievement can be
found in unexpected places. The Foundation for Self-Taught American
Artists aims to create a deeper understanding and broader appreciation
of self-taught art through the production, acquisition, promotion
and distribution of documentary films.
Wednesday,
May 13 at 7:30pm
What's
Under Your Hat?
dir.
Lola Barrera and Inaki Penafiel, Spain, 2007, video, 75
mins, color
Judith
Scott (1943-2005) became a renowned artist - creating abstract,
intertwined objects made out of yarn - after an inauspicious
start to life, and many years of living in a State institution
with her needs and abilities unrecognized and unsupported. Scott's
great good fortune was to be born a twin. Her sister Joyce was
able eventually to reconnect with her, rescue her from the institution,
and introduce her to the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland,
California, where her artistic expression flourished. Filmmakers
Lola Barrera and Julio Medem have produced a film that is engaging,
confronting, uplifting, heartbreaking, hopeful, deeply respectful
of the art that is its focus, and at times very funny.
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+ Moore College of Art & Design - Celebrating Diversity
Art Contest.
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