visionary art environments
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Ppt. presentation delivered March 29 at 3:00PM at the University of West Georgia.TRANSCRIPT
Visionary-art Environment: National Historic Context
Purpose
1.Survey Extant Resources
2.History
3.Evaluation Criteria
4.Preservation Best Practices
5.Networks
6.Raise Public Awareness
Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, North Carolina
Fred Smith’s Concrete Park, Wisconsin
Thunder Mountain, Imlay, Nevada
Pasaquan, Marion County, Georgia
Watts Towers, Los Angeles, California
Paradise Gardens, Pennville, Georgia
Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, North Carolina
Lonnie Holley’s Yard Show, Birmingham, Alabama
Examples of 20th-Century American Visionary Artists
Eddie Owens Martin(a.k.a. St. EOM)
Minnie Evans
Howard Finster
Joseph Zoettl
Baldasare Forestiere
E.T. Wickham
Tressa “Grandma” Presbrey
Eddie Owens Martin Howard Finster
Pasaquan Counterculture
Paradise Gardens
Hostel at Thunder Mountain, Imlay, Nevada
Samuel Dinsmoor
Garden of Eden, Lucas, Kansas
Garden of Eden,Lucas, Kansas
Garden of Eden,
Lucas, Kansas
Paradise Gardens
Paradise Gardens
Pasaquan, Marion County, Georgia
Pasaquan, Marion County, Georgia
Eddie Martin, c.1929 Eddie Martin, c.1929
Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers,Los Angeles, California
Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers,Los Angeles, California
Tressa Prisbrey
Bottle Village, Simi Valley, California
Nit Wit Ridge, Cambria, California
Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, North Carolina
Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, North Carolina
Watts Towers, Los Angeles, California
Fred Smith’s Concrete Park, Wisconsin
E.T. Wickham, Roadside Sculpture Park, Tennessee
Pasaquan
Pasaquan
Paradise Gardens,Pennville, Georgia
Baldasare Forestiere’s Underground Gardens
Pasaquan
American Visionary Art MuseumBaltimore, Maryland
Pasaquan
c.1990 2007
Paradise Gardens, Pennville, Georgia
c.1997 2007