American Visionary Art Museum
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| Nancy Josephson's "Gallery A-Go-Go Bus". |
"What is Visionary Art?" asks the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. "Like love, you know it when you see it."
"But here's the longer definition, straight out of our Mission Statement: 'Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself.' In short, visionary art begins by listening to the inner voices of the soul, and often may not even be thought of as 'art' by its creator." Whatever the artists shown here may be lacking in formal training, they are more than making up for in not only vision, but ingenuity and sheer effort.
Don't miss the Jim Rouse Visionary Center next to the main museum. It houses a lot of kinetic sculptures, large and small. Most of the small ones are in display cases that have buttons visitors can push in order to see the sculpture operate. They were especially charming.
Visiting this museum was a joy. A trip to Baltimore without a visit there is just not complete!
"But here's the longer definition, straight out of our Mission Statement: 'Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself.' In short, visionary art begins by listening to the inner voices of the soul, and often may not even be thought of as 'art' by its creator." Whatever the artists shown here may be lacking in formal training, they are more than making up for in not only vision, but ingenuity and sheer effort.
Don't miss the Jim Rouse Visionary Center next to the main museum. It houses a lot of kinetic sculptures, large and small. Most of the small ones are in display cases that have buttons visitors can push in order to see the sculpture operate. They were especially charming.
Visiting this museum was a joy. A trip to Baltimore without a visit there is just not complete!
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| "Flee from Egypt (Parting of the Red Sea)" by Reverend Albert Wagner. |
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| "Black Icarus" by Andrew Logan. |
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| "Roominous" by Nancy Josephson. |
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| Detail of "Roominous" by Nancy Josephson. |
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| Detail of "Roominous" by Nancy Josephson. |
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| "Legba at the Amen Clinic Spirit Head" by Nancy Josephson. |
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| They had a plush couch from which you could watch movies! |
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| "Rabbit Whole" by Betsy Youngquist and R. Scott Long. |
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| "Madre Dolorosa" by Ingo Swann. |
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| "Robot Family" by DeVon Smith. |
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| "Baltimore Blues" by David Best. |
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| Bumpo the Elephant, from Baltimore's annual Kinetic Sculpture Race. |
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| "Untitled (Hobby Horse)" by Deborah Berger. |
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| "The Gown: Affinity" by Jan Huling. |
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| "Cosmic Galaxy Egg" by Andrew Logan. |
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