Here I am: agency, awareness, and audience
Terminology: tastes, gates, labels, and suits
Part 1: 20th century origins and representations.
Modern primitives: MoMA exhibits the self-taught (1932-1944)
Once seen as modern / Katherine Jentleson
Artist focus: William Edmondson
Artist perspectives: Henri Rousseau, John Kane, Mirris Hirshfield, Horace Pippin, Pedro Lopez Cervántez
l'Art Brut: defining creative agency (1944-1966)
The origins of Art Brut, history and legacy / Sarah Lombardi
Artist focus: Aloïse Corbaz
Artist perspectives: Adolf Wölfli, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Augustin Lesage, Auguste Forestier, Marguerite Sirvins
Outsider art: the title that shapes a genre (1972-1979)
Roger Cardinal, the art of the artless / John Maizels
Artist perspectives: Scottie Wilson, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Anna Zemánková, Johann Hauser, August Walla
Black folk art: presenting self-taught African American artists (1976-1982)
What it was, Black folk art in America / Cheryl Finley
Artist focus: Bill Trayor
Artist perspectives: Joseph E. Yoakum, Elijah Pierce, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sam Doyle
Part 2: Disparate boundaries.
Clandestine: exploring privacy, intimacy, and isolation in creativity
Portals of the imagination / Michael Bonesteel
Artist focus: Henry Darger
Artist perspectives: James Castle, Charles A.A. Dellschau, Melvin Way, Guo Fengyi, Emery Blagdon
Renegades: persona and messaging in art practice
The original renegade(s) / Phillip March Jones
Artist perspectives: Lonnie Holley, Mary T. Smith, Prophet Royal Robertson, Kwame Akoto, Horst Ademeit
Environments: changing personal and public surroundings
Singular spaces/authentic visions / Jo Farb Hernández
Artist perspectives: Helen Martins, Prophet Isaiah Robertson, Huang Yong-Fu, Josep Pujiula i Vila, Niki de Saint Phalle
Ability: advocating for artistic development
Shifting focus, a brief history of disability art in global contexts / Tom di Maria
Artist focus: Judith Scott
Artist perspectives: Julian Martin, Andrew Omoding, Julia Krause-Harder, Walter Mika, Tomoyuki Shinki
Abstraction: beyond representation
Alternative expressions / Lisa Slominski
Artist interview; George Widener, interviewed by Sophia Cosmadopoulos
Artist perspectives: Hilma af Klint, Janet Sobel, Thornton Dial, Nnena Kalu, Junko Yamamoto
Landscapes: documenting the real and the imagined
Seeing scenes / Lisa Slominski
Artist interview: Mamadou Cissé, interviewed by Sophia Cosmadopoulos
Artist perspectives: Grandma Moses, Martín Ramírez, Minnie Evans, Katsuyoshi Takenaka, Katsuhiro Terao
Figuration: memory reproduction, and documentation
Close encounters / Lisa Slominski
Artist interview: William Scott, interviewed by Sophia Cosmadopoulos
Artist perspectives: Shinchi Sawada, Davood Koochaki, Helen Rae, Carlo Zinelli, Chéri Samba.
