To: Trustees of the American Folk Art Museum
Save the American Folk Art Museum!
We cannot allow regrettable institutional decisions and a lousy piece of contemporary architecture result in the dispersal of the greatest collection of American folk art in the world. Our city and citizens must have time to come up with a solution that keeps this great collection intact and in New York!!
Why is this important?
Quoting Roberta Smith in The New York Times 9/19/11: "Please. Someone, everyone, do something to save the American Folk Art Museum from dissolution and dispersal. Or at least slow down the process, so that all options can be thoroughly considered. New York’s contemporary artists, and New York as a whole, need the creative energy of this stubborn, single-minded little institution, its outstanding exhibition program and its wondrous collection, an unparalleled mixture of classic American folk art and 20th-century outsider geniuses.