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 to record 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.

*The panel discussion is part of “Revolution and Evolution: Celebrating 250 of Cultural Fusion on the Bayou,” a symposium in collaboration with the Center for Louisiana Studies, Festival Acadiens et Créoles, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.