End notes: Making Choices
Scrutinare by Consuelo “Chelo” González Amézcua (1903–1975), 1970. American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler. How did they make that? It’s a question that often comes up when looking at a work of art, especially ones that don’t fit neatly into our traditional definitions. Thanks to a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the American Folk Art Museum has hired Brooke Wyatt, an assistant curator whose first exhibition at the museum, Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work, addresses that very question—and the layered nuances it encompasses. She writes: Material Witness focuses on the