Putting Folk Art In Context With Incoming High Museum Curator
The High Museum of Art has been lauded for their many special exhibitions, but their ever-growing permanent collection holds many priceless and important works of art, not least of all in their collection of folk art.
The High began collecting folk art in the 1970s, and in fact they’re the first general museum in North America to have — starting in 1994 — a full-time curator devoted to folk and self-taught art.
In January 2015, the High Museum announced a new hire to that position. Her name is Katherine Jentleson, and she is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University and begins at the High this fall. She was in town recently and sat down with WABE’s Myke Johns to talk about the position and the work that will be bringing her to Atlanta.
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