Dec 17th 2020

Franklin Vagnone’s “One Night Stand” at Paradise Garden

@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

Online

Opening Thursday, December 17th, from 6PM - 7:30PM

magine you are in Paradise Garden, walking past highly stylized stone sculptures decorated with pieces of glass that sparkle in the sun. Brightly painted signs, intricate sculptures, and flora line the walkways between one building to the next. Imagine now, what if you spent the night here?
Franklin Vagnone has.
In part two of a special two-part series of public programs, Vagnone joins Intuit to recount his “One Night Stand” at this fantastical art environment constructed by outsider artist Howard Finster.
Franklin Vagnone is a Public Historian who leads the highly respected international cultural consulting firm Twisted Preservation. In addition, he is CEO of Old Salem Museums and Gardens and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. Through his One Night Stand blog series, Vagnone attempts to shift our understanding of historic house museums away from the perception that they are solely public venues to a more intimate and tactile appreciation of these museums as places of private, domestic life.
Vagnone describes his One Night Stand series as his attempt “to highlight more nuanced and latent understandings of these places as vessels for life, social issues, politics, and habitation – not merely as decorative arts objects and collections artifacts.” He spends the night in the historic bedrooms, using the furniture and experiencing the combination of behaviors and interactions with a home in ways that only an inhabitant can understand.
This program is free to join! To show your support to Intuit, please consider the pay-what-you-can option when you complete your reservation. Your contributions help ensure the sustainability of our public programs and support guest lecturers and teaching artists.
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