Name: FOFA Annual Members Gathering
Start: 2024-11-10T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-11-10T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Museum of International Folk Art, Vernick Auditorium

YOU are invited to join The Friends of Folk Art at the Annual FOFA Members Gathering and Birthday Celebration
About this Event

YOU are invited to join The Friends of Folk Art at the Annual FOFA Members Gathering and 32nd Birthday Celebration on Sunday, November 10, 2024.

2:00 p.m. Presentations
3:30 p.m. Refreshments & Socializing
*Optional Docent-Led Tours at 1:00 p.m.
Featuring….
Charlie Lockwood on MOIFA’s present and future, Marsha MacDowell and C. Kurt Dewhurst on South African Traditional Arts and of course, birthday cake.
The Friends of Folk Art are pleased to host a special presentation by Drs. C. Kurt Dewhurst and Marsha MacDowell. Their talk is entitled Ubuntu and Craft Art in South Africa: Museums and Communities Connect. Dewhurst and MacDowell will draw primarily from three projects with which they have had primary roles and all represent community/museum partnerships: The Quilt Index and Quilt Art of South Africa, the Siyazama Project (Traditional Arts, AIDS, and Education in South Africa), and the South African Bill of Rights print portfolio.

C. Kurt Dewhurst is an American curator and folklorist, Director for Arts and Cultural Partnerships at Michigan State University, Director Emeritus of the Michigan State University Museum, and Professor of English and Museum Studies.Dewhurst served as president of the American Folklore Society) between 2010 and 2011 when he was elected a Fellow of the AFS. He has served on the board of trustees for the American Folklife Ceter, the advisory council of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. He is an advisor to three cultural heritage projects in South Africa; the Nelson Mandela Museum; and the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town.

Marsha MacDowell has served in many different professional service capacities in the museum, folklore, and quilt study field, including the following: founding and current editor, H-Quilts; founding board member, The Alliance for American Quilts; past-president, American Quilt Study Group; current elected member of the Executive Board of the American Folklore Society; current member, international editorial board for Museum
Anthropology; and current member, international program planning board for the 2011 South African Visual Art s Historians (SAVAH) Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) Colloquium at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.