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  • Self-Taught Artists: Their Stories and Their Art  In-Person
  • Speaker: Rebecca Carpenter
    Dates: 7/1/2025 - 7/29/2025
    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 5
    Modality: In-Person
    Fee: $0.00

    This course will introduce members to the genre of self-taught art and the artists who create it. Formerly called "outsider art," these artists paint, sculpt, sew, and decorate spaces with minimal to no influences from outside sources. Their materials are commonly what is at hand: found objects for sculpture, cardboard for canvases, and cast-off scrap for garden churches. We will look at the lives and work of a number of artists, many of whom had little to no education and lived in economically and socially challenging environments. The artists include Bill Traylor, the Quilters of Gee's Bend, Howard Finster, Nellie Mae Brown, and Australian aboriginal and Inuit artists, among others.

    This course will meet in person July 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.

 

 

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