The Home of Folk Art
Detour Art: Outsider, Folk Art, and Visionary Environments Coast to Coast is the current exhibit on display at 1911 Historic City Hall Arts and Cultural Center in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The exhibit features self taught art from around the country. The collection is that from the author of Detour Art, Kelly Ludwig. The exhibit will be on display until August 21, 2010.
1911 City Hall Brings Unique National Exhibition Tour
Inspired by her work with the PBS show “Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations,” Ludwig, designer, author, and photographer, has collected outsider, contemporary folk art and self-taught artwork and captured images of visionary environments from all regions. It exemplifies the diversity of creative talent among these individuals and how it permeates the entire country, not just the Deep South. Ludwig says her obsession with outsider art has roots in her family, “I grew up with an outsider artist of sorts, my mother. Like so many of these artists who are products of the Depression-era, mom was thrifty and resourceful and resourcefulness inevitably spawns creativity-using common objects in uncommon ways.” Full story…
Historic City Hall Arts and Cultural Center is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free, donations are accepted.
1911 Historic City Hall Arts and Cultural Center
1001 Ryan Street
Lake Charles , LA 70601
337-491-9147
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