Turner, Kay, 1948-
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Name (Latin)
Turner, Kay, 1948-
Date of birth
1948-11-10
Field of activity
Anthropology
Curatorship
Feminist anthropology
Feminist art criticism
Folk art
Folklore
Occupation
College teachers
Folklorists
Art museum curators
Art patrons
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- Her I dream of Madonna, 1993:CIP t.p. (Kay Turner) pub. info. (Kay F. Turner)
- Jasper, P. Art among us, c1986:t.p. (Kay Turner) p. 9 (guest curator, Texas Folklife Resources, Austin, Tex.)
- Phone call to publisher, 11/19/86(Kay Turner; b. 11/10/48)
- Pat Jasper leaves Texas Folklife Resources (Pat Jasper is retiring as director of Austin-based Texas Folklife Resources, TFR, the organization she co-founded with Kay Turner and Betsy Peterson in 1984 to give a much-needed home to the traditional arts in the Lone Star State ( (The Austin Chronicle, December 21, 2001, viewed online December 4, 2020:) )
- Wikipedia, viewed December 4, 2020(Kay Turner is an artist and scholar working across disciplines including performance, writing, music, exhibition curation, and public and academic folklore; born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan; currently lives between Brooklyn, New York and Austin, Texas. In 1979/1990, she earned her MA/PhD, respectively, in Folklore and Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Turner worked as the interim director of the Folk Arts Collections at the San Antonio Museum of Art from (1982-1984) ; in 1984, Kay Turner, Pat Jasper, and Betsy Peterson founded the non-profit folk arts organization Texas Folklife Resources. Turner continued on as the associate director of Texas Folklife Resources until 1991; she worked as director of the Brooklyn Arts Council's Folk Arts Program (2000-2014); in 2011, she joined the board of the New York Folklore Society. Turner has published articles in journals such as Journal of American Folklore and Western Folklore; as a public folklorist, Turner has researched, organized, and produced public programs, museum exhibitions, and folk music festivals; she served as president of the American Folklore Society in 2015-2018. In 2002, she became an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University; currently is still teaching there)
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