Jo Farb Hernández Featured in the New York Times

The New York Times recently featured Jo Farb Hernández’s work documenting and helping to preserve endangered art environments in Spain. Read “Concrete Daisies? There’s a Fine for That.”

Jo Farb Hernández is Director Emerita of the Thompson Art Gallery and Professor Emerita in the Department of Art and Art History at San José State University; she is also Director and Chief Curator Emerita of SPACES – Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments—a nonprofit archives documenting art environments and self-taught arts (www.spacesarchives.org). She has studied art environments created by self-taught creator-builders for fifty years, and her books Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments (I and II) have fully documented 144 remarkable sites across Spain. Hernández worked in the museum field for almost forty-five years, including service as Director of the Monterey Museum of Art and President of the California Association of Museums. 

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