"Outsider Art" Blogs & Blog Posts

Step inside the apartment that artist Ron Gittins transformed into a weird and wonderful fantasy world inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. Gittins, who died in 2019, lived in the Birkenhead, England rental flat for more than thirty years but took ve...

If you don't know already, Bill Wurtz is that musician/artist guy who made that history of the entire world, i guess, video back in 2017. It's cool, y'know, if you're into that sort of thing. Which you should be! It's great! — Read the rest Th...

The Scare-Fox (1910) was a mechanical device created to scare foxes away from pheasants and looks like a fantastic piece of folk art. The Scare-Fox worked by sending flashes of light outwards and showcasing a cartoonish face meant to scare the foxes...

When shipping clerk and former musician Frank Johnson died in Chicago in 1979 at the age of 67, his family was shocked to discover 2,300 pages of comics in bound notebooks that apparently nobody knew about. When his widow passed away in 2003, the no...

"When I am gone, my work will be praised, honored, and cherished. It will come," said George Ohr. It's only a little disconcerting when confident prophecies are entirely true. Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1982. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art...

Mary's Gone Wild Visionary Folk Art Museum & Doll Village is a visionary-art oasis located on a country road that runs between Wilmington, NC and Myrtle Beach, SC. Mary Paulsen says that she began building a village of houses for her collection o...

According to the Tate Britain, the term "Outsider Art" describes art "that has a naïve quality, often produced by people who have not trained as artists or worked within the conventional structures of art production." The long-running Outsider Art F...