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Friday Nights at NOMA: Film screening on James Castle
Fri, April 29th, 2016 at 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- 5-8 pm: Art on the Spot
- 5:30-8:30 pm: Music by DJ Kazoo
- 6:30 pm: Film: James Castle: Portrait of an Artist
About James Castle: Portrait of an Artist
Born deaf in 1899 in rural Idaho – only nine years after that frontier territory was admitted to the Union – James Castle mined the local landscape of his family’s homesteads and his own deeply private world to produce an astonishing body of drawings, collages, and constructions that eventually gained worldwide recognition. Jeffrey Wolf’s acclaimed film reveals Castle’s life and creative process, as told by family members, art historians, curators, artists, collectors, and members of the deaf community. This inspirational story of a true “outside artist” is a remarkable example of the triumph of the spirit – and the imagination.