Jo Farb Hernández
Jo Farb Hernández is a folklorist, curator, and award-winning writer based in Watsonville, California.[1] Succeeding founder Seymour Rosen as the second Executive Director of Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments (or SPACES Archives), she helped develop the most extensive public archive on the subject of art environments in the world.[2]
Hernández is a 40+ year veteran of the art world, and Director of the Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery and Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at San Jose State University.[3] She is internationally recognized as one of the foremost scholars in the field of art environments,[4][5] and has received the distinguished Chicago Folklore Prize from the American Folklore Society for her writing on the subject, and was also named the 2014 President's Scholar at SJSU.[6][2]Her recent book, Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments (2013), has been described as the “most impressive single volume ever published in the field of self-taught art.”[7] She is a contributing editor for Raw Vision magazine (UK), and a member of several national and international boards for nonprofit arts organizations.[8]
Hernández has published 11 books and catalogs, as well as 46 articles in journals and encyclopedias in four countries. She has curated 45 exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Korea and Spain, and has received 23 honors and awards, including a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Residence Award to do extended research in Spain for Singular Spaces.[2]
Service
Hernández's expertise has been consulted on the preservation of a number of art environment sites, including Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, as well as a number of sites in Spain, often providing strategic advocacy to sustain or support a site.[9][10]
Hernández served as President of the California Association of Museums.[8]
Recognition
Reviews of exhibition projects directed by Hernández have appeared in such media organs as the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Artweek, ArtNews, Art Journal, Art in America, Museum Anthropology, Folk Art, Folk Art Messenger, Raw Vision, and more.[8]
Bill Swislow, in The Outsider, suggested that Sublime Spaces, her whopping 600-page large-format volume exploring art environments in Spain "may actually be the most impressive single volume of research ever published in the field of self-taught art."[11]
References
- ↑ "Watsonville's Jo Farb Hernandez details newest book". Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- 1 2 3 "President’s Scholar: Jo Farb Hernández | SJSU Newsroom". blogs.sjsu.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- ↑ Del Guidice, Luisa (15 June 2014). Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts. Oxford University Press. p. 461. ISBN 0823260666.
- ↑ National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NPS). "Art Environments: Curatorial Roles and Responsibilities". Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ TOKY Branding + Design. "SPACES Board Members". spacesarchives.org. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ "Chicago Folklore Prize - American Folklore Society". afsnet.org. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ "Book Review: Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments". Interesting Ideas. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- 1 2 3 "Jo Farb Hernandez | Department of Art and Art History | San Jose State University". www.sjsu.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- ↑ "KPBS: Art Professor Shares Outsider Art Expertise | SJSU Newsroom". blogs.sjsu.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- ↑ Solanilla, José Luis. "La experta norteamericana en arte bruto Jo Farb pide conservar la casa de Épila". heraldo.es. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- ↑ Swislow, William (2014). "Review: SINGULAR SPACES: FROM THE ECCENTRIC TO THE EXTRAORDINARY IN SPANISH ART ENVIRONMENTS". The Outsider. Intuit: Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.