Opening: INTRODUCTION       Session 1: BIOGRAPHY/PRESENCE OF SELF + Panel Details Kristin E. Espinosa and Leslie Umberger (cochairs) Margaret Parsons: “Memories, Madonnas, and Makeup: Alex Bogardy’s Art” Stephen Huyler: “Individual Expression within a Constricted Society: Self-taught Artists in India” Kent Minturn: “Jean Dubuffet’s Biographies” Monika Jagfeld: “Artist’s Ego or Art Ego: The Relevance of Context Access through the Example of Art Autobiographies” Beauvais Lyons: “Biography and Authenticity: The George and Helen Spelvin Folk Art Collection” Q&A with Panel       Session 2: AWARENESS OF CULTURE/LANDSCAPE/PLACE + Panel Details Daniel Baumann and Susan Mitchell Crawley (cochairs) Valérie Rousseau: “Revealing Art Brut: Beyond the Impossible Museum” Anton Rajer: “Nek Chand’s Rock Garden: Cultural Connection and Artistic Authenticity in Chandigarh, India” Joyce Cohen: “Historians in Aprons: Women Self-taught Artists” Jenifer P. Borum: “Cultural Context and the Beyond: The Methodological Challenge of Engaging the Work of Self-taught Visionary Artists” Q&A with Panel       Session 3: AUTHENTICITY + Panel Details Roger Cardinal and Lee Kogan (cochairs) Bernard L. Herman: “Quilts Talking/Talking Quilts: Art, Authenticity, and Display in Gee’s Bend, Alabama” Alexandra Plettenberg-Serban: “Authenticity and Culture in the Work of Richard Smith” Pamela Sachant: “The Case Study of Billy Roper: Breaking through the Wood Panel Ceiling of Local Renown to National Fame” Alison Weld: “Authenticity: Economy and Accumulation in Bill Traylor and Hawkins Bolden” Q&A with Panel       Session 4: INTENTIONALITY + Panel Details Víctor M. Espinosa and Colin Rhodes (cochairs) Brendan Greaves: “Characters Comely to the Eye: Text and Intention in the Art of James Castle” Paul Laffoley: “‘The Intentionality of Oneness’: Homage to Wendel ‘One World’ Willkie, John ‘The One’ Lennon, and ‘The One of Plotinus’” Tom Patterson: “Culture, Counterculture, Authenticity, and Identity in Contemporary Folk/Outsider/Visionary Art” Charles Russell: “Art That Protects and Connects: The Yard Show of 'Emmer' Sewell” Q&A with Panel       Closing Session: WHERE TO NOW? + Panel Details Brooke Davis Anderson (chair) Gary Alan Fine (respondent) Randall Morris (respondent) Full Panel Discussion

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