RFI: Mingering Mike (DC Outsider Music/Art)

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http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/46852/spring-arts-guide-2015/#pick_mingering

Feb. 27–Aug. 2 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free.

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2015/feb/12/g2

Free Public Programs

A series of free public programs will complement the installation. To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, Umberger, Hadar, independent writer and curator Tom Patterson, and Carroll Hynson, Jr., a D.C.-based radio personality and '60s and '70s music expert, will sit down with Mingering Mike to discuss the artist's work during a "Roundtable Remix" panel discussion Friday, Feb. 27, at 6:30 p.m. Umberger will lead a gallery talk Tuesday, March 10, at 5:30 p.m., and the museum will host a "Supersonic Rewind" dance party featuring soul hits of the '60's and '70's that influenced the artist's work Saturday, March 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the museum's Kogod Courtyard. Conservator Kate Maynor will discuss conservation of the collection in a gallery talk Wednesday, April 15, at noon. For additional information about programs, the public may visit americanart.si.edu/calendar.

Connecting Online

A slide show of selected artworks in the exhibition will be available on the exhibition webpage, americanart.si.edu/mingeringmike. Behind-the-scenes insights about the exhibition will be published on the museum's blog, Eye Level, at eyelevel.si.edu. The public may also follow the museum for exhibition updates on Twitter by following @americanartand using #MingeringMike, Facebook at facebook.com/americanart, Pinterest at pinterest.com/americanartpin and Instagram at instagram.com/americanartmuseum, or by subscribing to the museum's email list at americanart.si.edu/visit/enews.

As I noted on an ILE DC thread--I ended up going to the Mingering Mike panel discussion at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It was pretty interesting (and not as awkward as I thought it might be for Mike). Mike did "outsider" art-- soul and funk album covers and some reel to reel tapes and cassettes of his own music from 1966 to 1977 I think. Mike was dressed as a surgeon in gown and mask as he wants to keep his identity secret.... Images of Mike's artwork were projected behind them.

Oh, Mike said that last summer Peter Buck asked him to do an album cover for him and that he drew it in August 2014.

Exhibit was closed during and after panel discussion so I have to go back to see it