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Contact: Gail Platts, USM Art Gallery Assistant
Phone: 780-5409
Email: gail.platts@maine.edu
University of Southern Maine Art Gallery staff are looking for self-taught
artists for the exhibition, "Maine Visionary Art," to be held fall 2007.
Submissions can be made by the artists, or those familiar with the artists'
work. Contact information for the artist, descriptions and locations of
the work, and digital images can be submitted to Art Gallery Assistant
Gail Platts at gail.platts@maine.edu or mailed to USM Art Galleries, 37
College Ave., Gorham, Maine, 04038.
This summer Art Gallery Director Carolyn Eyler will be traveling throughout
Maine contacting the artists who submitted work for the exhibit and searching
for other self-taught artists.
A commonly accepted definition of a "self-taught artist" is an individual
with no formal art training, who creates visual works outside the mainstream
art world. Self-taught artists differ from conventional folk artists who
practice art or craft traditions that are passed down through the generations.
Sometimes described as outsider art, art brut, visionary art, and naïve
art, this type of art often has a homespun, 'folksy' appeal with strong
individual expression. Self-taught, visionary artists are people who make
art for themselves or their immediate community. This work is often quirky
or eccentric, and the creators often do not always recognize themselves
as artists.
For more information, please visit the "What's Happening" link on the
USM Art Gallery Web site www.usm.maine.edu/gallery.
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