Breaking the Frame is a podcast featuring interviews that explore how museums and the people who work in them shape American history and culture — past and present. This episode, we explore issues of American folk, self-taught, and “outsider” art with Michael Bramwell, an artist, curator, and scholar who recently retired from his role as the Joyce Linde Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.To keep up with Breaking the Frame, subscribe or visit our website at zencastr.com/Breaking-the-Frame.More information about the artworks and topics discussed in this episode: Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina exhibition at the MFA Boston https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/hear-me-now-the-black-potters-of-old-edgefield-south-carolina “The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/arts/design/-enslaved-potter-david-drake-museum.html New Discourses on Folk and Self-Taught Art symposium at the MFA Boston https://www.mfa.org/event/symposium/new-discourses-on-folk-and-self-taught-art “MFA Boston Appoints Michael J. Bramwell as Inaugural Joyce Linde Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art” https://mfa.org/press-release/michael-bramwell-folk-art-curator Folk Art of the Americas at the MFA Boston https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315158 “Heard a Voice, Saw a Light: Spiritual Implications of Creative Belief in Black Vernacular Art” by Michael J. Bramwell, essay in The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South https://uncpress.org/book/9781469668529/the-unfinished-business-of-unsettled-things/ Minnie Evans https://americanart.si.edu/artist/minnie-evans-1466 Souls Grown Deep https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/ Gee's Bend quiltmakers https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/gees-bend-quiltmakers Joseph E. Yoakum https://www.moma.org/artists/26683Credits: Hosts: Emily C. Casey and R. Ruthie Dibble Production Assistant: Katherine White Graduate student guest: Reyna Mallory Additional research prepared by: Nathan Osborn and the graduate students of the Spring 2024 HA 706/906 Seminar in American Art: American Museums: Race, Class, Labor at the University of Kansas Theme music: "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseArtwork: Designed by Katherine White, featuring a frame (ca. 1849-1858) created by the United States Pottery Company currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)

Breaking the Frame is a podcast featuring interviews that explore how museums and the people who work in them shape American history and culture — past and present. Our guest this episode, Dr. Maki Kaneko, is an Associate Professor of Japanese Art at The Kress Foundation Department of Art History of the University of Kansas. She is co-curating an exhibition at the university’s Spencer Museum of Art on the work of Japanese-American artist Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani.To keep up with Breaking the Frame, subscribe or visit our website at zencastr.com/Breaking-the-Frame.More information about the artworks and topics discussed in this episode: Maki Kaneko at the University of Kansas https://arthistory.ku.edu/people/maki-kaneko Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani https://americanart.si.edu/artist/jimmy-tsutomu-mirikitani-29289 Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita https://www.artnet.com/artists/l%C3%A9onard-tsuguharu-foujita/ Research Fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum https://americanart.si.edu/research/fellowships The Cats of Mirikitani, directed by Linda Hattendorf http://www.thecatsofmirikitani.com/Credits: Hosts: Emily C. Casey and R. Ruthie Dibble Production Assistant: Katherine White Graduate student guests: Hannah Johnson and Kendall Marsh Additional research prepared by: The graduate students of the Spring 2024 HA 706/906 Seminar in American Art: American Museums: Race, Class, Labor at the University of Kansas Theme music: "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Artwork: Designed by Katherine White, featuring a frame (ca. 1849-1858) created by the United States Pottery Company currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)

Breaking the Frame is a podcast featuring interviews that explore how museums and the people who work in them shape American history and culture — past and present. Our guest this episode is Dare Turner, the first full-time curator of Indigenous art at the Brooklyn Museum. Her curatorial work has been distinguished by projects that advocate for North American Native artists and communities in museum spaces, and she has been involved in collaborative projects that connect Indigenous- and U.S.-focused American art collections together.To keep up with Breaking the Frame, subscribe or visit our website at zencastr.com/Breaking-the-Frame.More information about the artworks and topics discussed in this episode: Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum https://artbma.org/learn/preoccupied-indigenizing-the-museum/ First Americans Museum https://famok.org/ Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art, the reinstallation of the American art wing at the Brooklyn Museum https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/american_art Nico Williams https://www.nicowilliams.com/Credits: Hosts: Emily C. Casey and R. Ruthie Dibble Production Assistant: Katherine White Graduate student guests: Jinhyun Cho and Amanda 'Sal' Salazar Additional research prepared by: The graduate students of the Spring 2024 HA 706/906 Seminar in American Art: American Museums: Race, Class, Labor at the University of Kansas Theme music: "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Artwork: Designed by Katherine White, featuring a frame (ca. 1849-1858) created by the United States Pottery Company currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)

Breaking the Frame is a podcast featuring interviews that explore how museums and the people who work in them shape American history and culture — past and present. This episode, we speak with Ms. Rebecca Shaykin, who approaches American art through a feminist lens for her work as a Curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City.To keep up with Breaking the Frame, subscribe or visit our website at zencastr.com/Breaking-the-Frame.More information about the artworks and topics discussed in this episode: The Jewish Museum website https://thejewishmuseum.org/ Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art exhibition https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/edith-halpert-and-the-rise-of-american-art Edith Halpert: The Downtown Gallery and the Rise of American Art catalogue https://shop.thejewishmuseum.org/edith-halpert-the-downtown-gallery-and-the-rise-of-american-art Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! Exhibition https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/marta-minujin-arte-arte-arte “Rocking the Art World at 80: Marta Minujín is about to get her due at a Jewish Museum solo exhibition — her first major show in the United States.” - New York Times article about the Marta Minujín exhibition https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/arts/design/argentinian-artist-marta-minujin-exhibition-jewish-museum.html Florine Stettheimer https://www.moma.org/artists/5657 Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston, upcoming exhibition https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/trenton-doyle-hancock-confronts-philip-guston Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston catalogue https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300278200/draw-them-in-paint-them-out/ Kali Spitzer Photography https://www.kalispitzer.com/aboutCredits: Hosts: Emily C. Casey and R. Ruthie Dibble Production Assistant: Katherine White Additional research prepared by: Luke Chupp and Beatrice Levine, graduate students of the Spring 2024 HA 706/906 Seminar in American Art: American Museums: Race, Class, Labor at the University of Kansas Theme music: "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Artwork: Designed by Katherine White, featuring a frame (ca. 1849-1858) created by the United States Pottery Company currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)

Breaking the Frame is a podcast featuring interviews that explore how museums and the people who work in them shape American history and culture — past and present. We start off our interviews this season by talking with Dr. Lucía Abramovich Sánchez, the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an expert on Latin American art.To keep up with Breaking the Frame, subscribe or visit our website at zencastr.com/Breaking-the-Frame.More information about the artworks and topics discussed in this episode: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's announcement of appointing Lucía Abramovich Sánchez as the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture Art of the Americas collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Nelson A. Rockefeller Latin American Art Center at the San Antonio Museum of Art Ceramics from Tonalá, Mexico Tomás Ybarra‐Frausto, "Imagining a More Expansive Narrative of American Art" Lucía Abramovich Sánchez, "Exploring the Influence and Significance of Latin American Visual Culture in Chicano/a Art, Movimiento y Más en Austen, Tejas 1960s to 1980s" Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of ArtCredits: Hosts: Emily C. Casey and R. Ruthie Dibble Production Assistant: Katherine White Graduate student guests: Gillian Nichols and Abigail Usrey Additional research prepared by: The graduate students of the Spring 2024 HA 706/906 Seminar in American Art: American Museums: Race, Class, Labor at the University of Kansas Theme music: "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Artwork: Designed by Katherine White, featuring a frame (ca. 1849-1858) created by the United States Pottery Company currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)