Archive as Art: Elemore Morgan Jr. at the ’76 Folklife Festival

Join us for Archive as Art: Elemore Morgan Jr. at the ’76 Folklife Festival, a panel discussion situated within the Hilliard’s exhibition of Elemore Morgan Jr.’s photographs from the 1976 Festival of American Folklife. This conversation will use Morgan’s work as a point of departure for a broader exploration of photography as both documentation and artistic expression.

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? This event will be followed by a reception with champagne, boudin, and live music celebrating the exhibition opening.

3:00-3:45 p.m. Panel Discussion featuring:

Brian Piper, Photography Curator, New Orleans Museum of Art

Ben Sandmel, Folklife Historian

Ann Savoy, Artist

Aubrey A. Daval, exhibition curator and moderator

*Part of “Revolution and Evolution: Celebrating 250 of Cultural Fusion on the Bayou,” organized by the UL Center for Louisiana Studies in collaboration with Festival Acadiens et Créoles and Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

4:00-4:45 p.m. Exhibition Opening Reception

Free general public admission.

Presented in collaboration with Festival Acadiens et Créoles and Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and the Center for Louisiana Studies

Community event in Lafayette, LA 70503.