

The segment titled "Visionary Art" profiles the artists Ken Grimes, Ionel Talpazan and Kenny Perkin. Check out Made in the USA: Outsider Art Fair, and click on the interview and videos about the fair. This PBS show is no longer broadcast on PBS, but you can still access streaming video and other features from the amazing Egg website. The site includes Education at Art:21, comprised of an online learning library, student art projects and teaching material.
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The television series Art:21 focuses exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the US. The site also features lesson plans, classroom activities and links to other resources on visionary art. Users can watch streaming video, zoom in on the scuptures and create their own "backyard paradises" in clever Flash interactives. This beautiful and very interactive website takes you on a tour of 10 "backyard paradises" designed by visionary artists from around the world, including Simon Rodia's famous Watts Towers in LA, Ferdinand Cheval's Palais Idéal in France and Howard Finster's Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia. The Outsider Art Fair is an annual exhibition and dealer gathering held in New York City. Look through images of artworks by outsider Russian artists at this Moscow-based art museum's wbsite. North Carolina Wesleyan College: Lynch Collection of Outsider Artīrowse through biographies and artworks by outsider artists in the Lynch Collection, many of whom are from North Carolina.īrowse this beautiful Flash-based Parisian art gallery's collection, which includes works by Henry Darger. This Baltimore-based museum website offers information on outsider art, exhibitions and events, as well as educational material and teacher resources. The site includes examples of pieces from the collection and a number of essays about the history of outsider art. Located in Milwaukee, WI, the collection is housed in the Buffalo Forum, a non-profit study center and gallery devoted to Outsider and Self-Taught art. The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught & Outsider Art Read an article about the characteristics of outsider art, click on an artist's name to discover short biographies of artists, and find books about outsider art in their excellent bibliography. Raw Vision is a quarterly publication on outsider art. Browse a listing of their permanent collection and exhibits." Read past articles from their publication, Outsider Magazine. Their mission "is to promote public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of intuitive and outsider art through a program of education and exhibition. Intuit is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991. The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

View some of the permanent collection, read an essay entitled " What is folk art?", and access a listing of current and travelling exhibitions.
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This review of John MacGregor's biography asks questions about the state of Darger's mental health and whether he was "basically just a crabby mentally disturbed gentleman or was, as MacGregor once famously said, 'psychologically a serial killer.'" (July 23, 2003)Įstablished over 40 years ago in 1961, this New York City museum houses over 4,000 works of art spanning 3 centuries. : Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal Read a review of John MacGregor's biography entitled, Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal. "In the Realms of the Unreal" filmmaker Jessica Yu speaks with New York City Voices, an online journal that focuses on mental health issues, about Henry Darger's life and work. New York City Voices: Discussing the Life of a Remarkable Soul Read an excerpt from A Personal Recollection by Nathan Lerner and a chronology of Darger's life. Several large Darger paintings represented by Carl Hammer Gallery are on view. This Chicago art gallery specializes in the works of outsider artists. Read his biography, look through the chronology of his posthumous solo exhibitions and scroll through images of some of his artwork. Henry Darger is among the outsider artists shown at Andrew Edlin Gallery. Their website includes a biography, clickable images in the inventory section (that feature the zoomify option available in the audio tour in Special Features) and excellent essays and articles in the exhibitions section. They also serve as Darger's east coast representatives. This New York City art gallery focuses on work by outsider artists.

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The Henry Darger Study Center was established in 2000 to "foster open inquiry and multidisciplinary research into the life and work of the Chicago artist." Nathan Lerner's widow, Kiyoko Lerner, donated Darger's personal archive - including diaries, correspondence, notebooks, studies, tracings, photographs, books, and paper ephemera - and the manuscripts and typescripts of his vast literary works to the American Folk Art Museum. American Folk Art Museum: The Contemporary Center
