{"id":660744,"date":"2010-02-10T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"134 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-02-10T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:34:11","slug":"the-american-visionary-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/660744","title":{"rendered":"The American Visionary Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/maryland\/city-baltimore\/south-baltimore\">South Baltimore<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/maryland\">Maryland<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/architectural-oddities\/outsider-architecture\">Outsider Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself.&#8221; The art of farmers, postmen, the mentally ill, art done in secretly in the attic &#8211; all get equal billing at the Baltimore American Visionary Art Museum. A refreshing look at creativity and art made far, far outside the &#8220;art world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss the Giant Whirligig &#038; Sculpture Plaza. The 55-foot tall central wind-powered sculpture was created by Vollis Simpson, a 76 year-old farmer from North Carolina who made his first whirligig to power a washing machine while he was stationed in the South Pacific during World War II.   The museum also features a 16 foot model of the Lusitania made entirely from toothpicks, and is host to the incredible Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race.<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Obscura Day &#8211; Marth 20th, 2010 &#8211; for a scavenger hunt and tour of the eclectic artistic offerings at the American Visionary Art Museum, the nation&#8217;s foremost collection of works by self-taught outsider artists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/avamdanmeyers301x400.jpg?resize=280%2C372\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Baltimore, Maryland | Outsider Architecture &#8220;Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself.&#8221; The art of farmers, postmen, the mentally ill, art done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LTa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}