Come Outside and Play with Intuit – House Tours 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
With three wonderful locations in the lineup – this year the Intuit House Tours is sure to please. Mixing 20th century popular culture and Americana, wind-up toys, advertising art, Imagist art, ’50s furniture, cowboy collectibles, ethnographic material, outsider and folk art, lake-inspired nautical art, Mary T Smith, Mose Tolliver, Howard Finster, Ras Dizzy, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Edward Avila, and Bruce Wood – there is sure to be something for everyone! Plus, you are even invited to the Annual Labor Day Barbecue. Read the full story
On the heels of the opening reception (happening Friday, July 9th) for Intuit’s exhibition, Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton, comes their “Curator’s Talk.” You can be a part of the discussion which will be held at Intuit on Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 1 p.m. Read the full story
The Conflicts and Paradoxes of Outsider Art-A Review of Intuit’s Two Summer Shows-and so much more…
Monica Westin, journalist for the Huffington Post, had some very interesting and extremely thought provoking things to say about Intuit’s summer exhibitions, fantasies of identity, fascination, the closeness and alienation of art, transvestites, celebration and voyeurism of artists, and life lessons in general. Ms. Westin has laid out for usRead the full story
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art presents Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton running July 9 through December 30, 2010. The opening reception, free and open to the public, will be held at Intuit on Friday, July 9, from 5-8 pm, 756 N. Milwaukee Avenue.
Peter Anton-Photo by Dan Rybicky & Aaron Wickenden
Peter Anton, a 78 year-old resident of East Chicago, Indiana, creates paintings that illuminate moments of significance from his personal history. Many of them are based on photographs he has obsessively compiled into a massive autobiography titled “Almost There.”
Heather Holbus, Program Coordinator at Intuit stated, “The event was a great success. We had crowds all day and sold over $6,000. We’ll definitely be doing it again next year.”
Congratulations to Intuit and their fundraiser-Donate a Treasure, Find a Treasure.
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A New Twist on Fundraising – Are you IN-TU-IT?
(It includes spring cleaning!)
America’s only nonprofit organization devoted solely to presenting outsider art, is hoping you are into it! We are talking about Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago. They are presenting, for the first time, Donate a Treasure, Find a Treasure, a fundraiser that is sure to please! Read the full story
Mixing 20th century popular culture and Americana, wind-up toys, advertising art, Imagist art, ’50s furniture, cowboy collectibles, ethnographic material, outsider and folk art, lake-inspired nautical art, Mary T Smith, Mose Tolliver, Howard Finster, Ras Dizzy, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Edward Avila, and Bruce Wood – there is sure to be something for everyone! Plus, you are even invited to the Annual Labor Day Barbecue. Read the full story
