OAF Talks + Performances
Friday, March 20, 2026
11:30am- Talk
Creative Growth: The Next Fifty Years. Sunny A. Smith and Edward M. Gomez in conversation.
Co-sponsors: Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, Diana Bowes, Beth Rudin DeWoody
1:00pm - Performance
John Kelly, star of BUGHOUSE, will perform an excerpt from the play which is inspired by the life and writings of Henry Darger. Followed by a conversation with Carlo McCormick.
Lead sponsors: Craig and Janet Duchossois
2:30pm- Talk
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, with Katherine Jentleson, Senior Curator at the High Museum of Art, Barbara Haskell, Curator at the Whitney Museum of Art, and María Elena Ortiz, Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Lead sponsor: The Horseman Foundation
Co-sponsor: John Jerit
4:00pm - Talk
Panel Discussion on OAF Curated Space From the North: Inuit Prints and Drawings, 1959-2025. Moderator Mary-Dailey Desmarais, Chief Curator, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and panelists Patricia Feheley, Edd Guarino, Margarita Lizcano Hernandez, and Jessica Winters.
Co-sponsors: Lawrence B. Benenson, Susan Harris, Susan J. Weiler
6:00pm - Performance
Performance by acclaimed visual theater company Wakka Wakka: Future Flashback, a cutting edge puppetry show starring characters Snonkey (the Donkey) and Eli (the Elephant).
Co-sponsor: Kim Manocherian
