1:00-3:30 p.m. Luncheon Meeting of the National Advisory Board and Board of Directors at Best Western Georgetown Hotel [By invitation only]

3:30-5:00 p.m. Registration, Best Western Georgetown Hotel Lobby, 1121 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20037

5:30-7:30 p.m. Opening Reception at Steve Hessler and Mary Ellen Vehlow’s Home

Reception ticket, including Bus Transportation....................$40

Dinner on your own. Restaurant list will be provided. At least 10 restaurants are within two blocks of the hotel. Reservations are helpful.
8:00-8:30 a.m. Late Registration, Best Western Georgetown Hotel Lobby

8:30 a.m. Buses leave hotel for Educational Program, Lunch and Museum Tours

9:00-11:00 a.m. Educational Program, Smithsonian American Art Museum

9:00 a.m. Welcome by Ann Oppenhimer, President, FASA Folk Art Society’s Presentation of Awards of Distinction

9:30.a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Program: "Folk Art in Our Nation’s Capital"

    Speakers:
    9:30-10:00 a.m. Virginia Mecklenburg, Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
    10:00 - 10:30 a.m. William Christenberry, Photographer, Guest Curator of folk art exhibition at Smithsonian American Art Museum
    10:30-11:00 a.m. Liza Kirwin, Curator of Manuscripts, Archives of American Art

11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Smithsonian Folk Art Collection and free time to visit book store

12:30 p.m. Buses leave for National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)

1:00 p.m. Lunch at the National Museum of the American Indian - On Your Own (Choose from the museum’s fantastic array of American Indian specialities)

2:30-4:30 p.m. Free Time at the NMAI to visit the collections and gift shop

4:30 p.m. Buses leave for Best Western Hotel

Ticket, including Program, Museums, Bus Transportation....................$50
5:30-6:30 p.m. - Reception at Renaissance M Street Hotel, 1143 New Hampshire Avenue (Hotel is within walking distance)

6:30-9:30 p.m. - Folk Art Society’s Annual Benefit Silent & Live Auction/Dinner at Renaissance M Street Hotel

Reception and Benefit Ticket...................$75
9:15 a.m. Buses depart Best Western Georgetown Hotel

10:00-11:00 a.m. Visit Home of Grey Carter in McLean, Va. - Coffee & Donuts

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Visit Graphic Designers Scott+Yandura, whose non-profit Art+Works+Wonders project has more than 500 works of self-taught and outsider art in the collection

1:30-4:00 p.m. Luncheon at home of Betty-Carol Sellen and Marti Burt in Deale, Md. (South Asian cuisine. Indian attire encouraged but not required)

4:00 p.m. Buses leave for Art Enables, the Washington center for disabled artists

5:00-7:00 p.m. Wine, coffee and dessert at Art Enables

7:30 p.m.- Buses arrive back at Best Western Georgetown

Dinner on Your Own.

Bus Transportation, Tours, Refreshments and Lunch Ticket...................$75

Please Note: For those driving their own cars and not riding the buses, the price of the events remains the same. No admission to events without ticket and FASA conference badge.
9:30 a.m. Buses depart Best Western Georgetown Hotel

10:30-12:00 a.m. Visit to American Visionary Art Museum, Inner Harbor, Baltimore

12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch at a nearby hotel

2:00-4:30 p.m. Tours of Private Collections

5:30 p.m. Buses arrive back at Best Western Georgetown

Tour of Homes, Lunch, Visit to AVAM, Bus Transportation ............... $80

Dinner on your own.
All Events are Subject to Change!
Folk Art Society of America
P.O. Box 17041, Richmond, VA 23226
800-527-FOLK (3655)
For more info: fasa@folkart.org
http://www.folkart.org/