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Opening Reception—Elemore Morgan Jr. and the Festival of American Folklife, 1976
Join us for a panel discussion and reception to celebrate the opening of Elemore Morgan Jr.: Photographs from the Festival of American Folklife, 1976.
Champagne, boudin, and live music from the Angelle Aces.
3:00 p.m. Panel discussion in the gallery
4:00 p.m. Opening reception
Panel Discussion
Archive as Art: Elemore Morgan Jr. at the ’76 Folklife Festival
3:00 p.m.
Folklife photography has long served as a means of recording a people and their traditions. For Morgan, a painter, it also built a “vocabulary of forms.” What happens to our understanding of a place, and an identity, when its documents are also its art?
Brian Piper – Photography Curator, New Orleans Museum of Art
Ben Sandmel – Folklife Historian
Ann Savoy – Photographer and Musician
Moderated by Aubrey A. Daval, exhibition curator
Opening Reception
4:00 p.m.
Champagne, boudin, and live music from the Angelle Aces, UL Lafayette’s student and alumni Cajun band. Afterwards, walk across the street for the Festivals Acadiens et Créoles opening ceremony.
Presented in collaboration with Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and the Center for Louisiana Studies.
