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Show them the website of the American Visionary Art Museum. It’s a museum for art made by people who never went to art school. It’s filled with stories of peopl
by elil17 7y ago
Show them the website of the American Visionary Art Museum. It’s a museum for art made by people who never went to art school. It’s filled with stories of people who had rich lives as artists alongside other careers.
You don’t need art school to be an artist. http://www.avam.org/ http://www.avam.org/
- thanatropism 7y agoThe museum might be cool but that website is badly designed enough to testify against this idea of being a self-taught artist.
- elil17 7y agoThe museum is actually run by a mime (who did have formal training)!
- itronitron 7y agoincidentally, a folk artist is simply an artist that does not have a formal art education