CARL F. HAMMER:

GENERAL BACKGROUND

·        M.A. in American Studies, 1970

·        20 years teaching in a major U.S. High School Humanities Program

·        Began collecting Folk and Outsider Art in 1970

·        Opened the Carl Hammer Gallery in 1979 focusing on presenting Folk/Outsider Art in a Contemporary Art context

·        Expanded gallery to include the broad spectrum of contemporary art by inviting mainstream artists to exhibit in gallery as part of the gallery program.  The outsider aesthetic still dictates the artist selection process.  1985

·        Former president, Chicago Art Dealers Association, 1991-1995

·        Founding member INTUIT, Chicago’s art center for the preservation and promotion of folk and outsider art.

SELECTED LECTURES , PANELS, AND PUBLICATIONS

Panel Member, A Gallery’s Responsibilities to its Artists. Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, November 2002.

Host and Speaker, After-Hours Seminar, Francis Parker Evening Course Programs, October 2002, Chicago, IL.

Reviewer Participant, Chicago Area Artists Portfolio Day.  October 2002, Chicago, IL.

Artist Workshop Leader/Coordinator, The Chicago Art Dealer Association The Business of Art workshop.  February 2002, Chicago, IL 

Discussion Facilitator, The Philosophy and Poetry of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein,

Lecturer, The Outsider Artist in the Context of the Contemporary Art Mainstream, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, April, 2002.

Lecturer, The Art Dealer Responsibility in Handling Outsider Artists, University of Chicago Graduate Students, Chicago, IL, April, 2001.

Host and Speaker, Clued in About Art, New Group of the Museum of Contemporary Art.  September 2001, Chicago, IL.

Lecturer, Outsider Art: An Updated Perspective in Collecting, Terra Museum of Art’s exhibition Outsider Art From Chicago Collections, Chicago, IL, February, 2000

Moderator, Nobody’s Outside Anymore: The Demarginalization of Outsider Art and its Role in the Mainstream Critical Mass, Intuit, Chicago, IL, 1999

Judge, curator,  Northern Indiana Arts Association 3^rd  Annual University Show,  February,  1997.

Lecturer,  Exhibition Curator,  Made in Chicago exhibition,  University of Wisconsin,  Eau Claire,  WI.,  November,  1996.

Author,  FreakShow:  Sideshow Banner Art,  Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA.,  1995-96.

Curator,  Visionary Time-Travelers,  University of Illinois at Chicago,  Black History Month,  January 1996-February 1996.

Panel discussion coordinator/organizer, The Self-Taught Influence on Chicago’s Art Aesthetic.  The Arts Club, Chicago, IL.  September 1995.  

Lecturer and Panel participant, Driven to Create.  Krannert Art Museum Association and Council.  Champaign IL.  1994.

Panelist,  Passionate Visions Symposium, New Orleans, LA.  November, 1993.

Curator of Art Miami Cameo Exhibition, Masters of Outsider Art, Miami, FL, 1992.

Lecturer, Issues in Contemporary Art: Painting from the Inside Out.  Renaissance Society, April 1992.  Chicago, IL. 

Lecturer, Outsider Art Day.  The Guild Complex at the Hot House, Chicago, IL.  March, 1992.

Lecturer, Outsiderism in  Art.  Club Lower Links,  Chicago, IL.  February 1992.

Exhibit Curator and Moderator, Evidence of Spirit.   Southern  Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.  February 1991.

Lecturer, Outsider Art.  University of Illinois,  Champaign.  Spring 1991.

Symposium moderator, Outsider Art:  High or Low Art?  Millenium Series, Chicago International Art Exposition.  September 1991.

Lecturer, Outsider Art.  Arlington Heights Illinois Library/Contemporary Arts Center, November 1990.

Lecturer, What is Outsider Art?  Chicago Artists Coalition, Summer 1990.  Chicago.

Lecturer,  Simon Sparrow.  Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art. August 1990. Racine, WI.

Guest panelist, Outsider and Folk Art.  R.H.  Love Television Broadcast, AMERICAN ART FORUM,  Chicago, 1989.