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I’m on summer vacation, and we’ve got a lot of new “FolkArtwork and Friends” podcasts coming out soon — but first, I’m honored to be joined by the American Folk Art Museum’s Valérie Rousseau.

In the ninth episode of FolkArtwork and Friends, Valérie Rousseau, the Curatorial Chair and Senior Curator of 20th-Century & Contemporary Art at the American Folk Art Museum, joins me to talk about what led her to a career in curating self-taught artwork, which included growing up with two grandfathers who were both renowned in Canada, one for their work as an ethnobotanist and the other a wood carver.

We talk about how the organization and the classification of art and nature as a kid led to curating, the works of art she remembers as a kid that will always stay with her, and then a discussion about the latest exhibit she co-curated with Suzie Oppenheimer at the American Folk Art Museum, “Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists,” on view now until September 13th. Plus, I didn’t jinx the Knicks!

Learn more about “Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists” at www.folkartmuseum.org and follow the American Folk Art Museum on Instagram at @afamuseum. If you’re in New York City, visit the American Folk Art Museum open Wednesday–Sunday: 11:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m. — admission is always free.

A new episode will come out next week, before we start getting back to our normal schedule every first Friday of the month. Continue to listen on your favorite podcast player — Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and with video on YouTube. Like, subscribe, share, and keep coming back for more. Thanks so much!

Watch the latest epsiodes of “FolkArtwork and Friends” here.

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