Creative Growth artist Susan Janow is featured in Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists at the American Folk Art Museum, a major exhibition that challenges outdated narratives about self-taught artists. Self-Made centers sixty artists who have depicted and identified themselves on their own terms.
Organized around self-portraits, alter egos, and autobiographies, the exhibition places artists' agency at the heart of interpretation.
Susan Janow's Art Workshop
Dialogue + Studio: Meditative Grids with Susan Janow
June 25, 2026 | 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
American Folk Art Museum | 2 Lincoln Square, New York City
About:
Take part in a hands-on presentation and workshop with Susan Janow, inspired by her precise, process-driven approach. Using ink markers, grids, and color, participants will explore rhythmic, textured abstraction. This is a rare chance to connect with and learn directly from Janow. Open to artists and creatives of all backgrounds and experience levels. Space is limited to 18 participants, and advance registration is required.
Tickets:
$15 / $12 members, students, artists, seniors.
For questions or to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@folkartmuseum.org.
Organized by Mathilde Walker-Billaud, AFAM Curator of Programs and Engagement.
Exhibition Details
Exhibition Details:
"Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists"
April 10, 2026–September 13, 2026
Museum Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday | 11:30 AM - 6:00 PM
2 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023
Online Exhibition Related Programing:
May 12, 2026 – Virtual Insights: Self-Made
July 1, 2026 – Worlds In-Between: The Art of Charlie Willeto
ABOUT The american folk art museum
The American Folk Art Museum in New York City is devoted to the work of self-taught artists. Artists who create outside of formal training, often guided by personal vision, memory, and lived experience. Founded in 1961, the museum’s collection spans centuries. Paintings, textiles, sculptures, and everyday objects. Each piece carries a sense of individuality and story, rooted in culture and place. Through its exhibitions and programs, the museum foregrounds voices that are often overlooked. It offers a more intimate view of art-making. One shaped by instinct, persistence, and imagination.
ABOUT susan janow
A member of Creative Growth Art Center since 2003, Susan Janow’s practice is expansive. The artist works with video, ink, ceramic, collage, woodwork and textile, and she is widely recognized for her short films created in Creative Growth’s Digital Media Lab. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.