Outsider Art Fair Announce Art Brut GlobalThe Outsider Art Fair announce Art Brut Global, an online sale and exhibition of international art brut. Galleries and collectors are asked to submit works by twenty of the world’s outstanding art brut artists including Johann Hauser, Augustin Lesage, Carlo Zinelli, Madge Gill, Martin Ramirez and Bill Traylor, to be exhibited at this virtual art fair. Submissions must be made by April 24 and will be going live by early May for three weeks on a new online platform. For further details contact Allison Galgiani at allison@outsiderartfair.com New Book on Fernando Nannetti by Lucienne PeiryFernando Nannetti Le Livre de Pierre, a small volume for sale at €7, explores the story of Nannetti, a hospital inmate and art brut creator, presenting an analysis of the mysterious signs, words and images he engraved on the walls of the psychiatric hospital near Volterra in Italy. Peiry also introduces Nanneti’s intense drawings. It is possible to buy the book by emailing ex-nihilo.librairie@bluewin.ch. See article in Raw Vision #63. Outside In, UKWork made by Tony Heaton during an Art House residency Outside In and The Art House are offering a residency at The Art House’s purpose-built studios in Wakefield and are seeking proposals from individual artists who would like to develop and progress their practice. This opportunity is open to Outside In artists with an Outside In online gallery or who fit the criteria for the charity. The deadline for applications is June 7. Click here for more information. In other news, in light of the current lockdown, Outside In has invited a number of their "Step Up: Leading Workshops" artists to deliver a series of online creative workshops in April that you can join in with at home. Workshops will be running from April 21–30. For more information on how to join in and what you will need, please click here. Houston Art Car "Virtual" Parade This WeekendHarrod Blank and the Camera Van at the Art Car Parade 2017, photo: Morris Malakoff April 18–19, 2020 This year’s in-person Houston Art Car Parade Weekend festivities were cancelled, but in its place, the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has created a schedule of virtual events accessible for anyone to watch from their home. The schedule includes live tours of the Orange Show’s three Houston landmarks: The Orange Show, The Beer Can House, and Smither Park; footage of Houston Art Car Parade Weekends throughout the years; and an airing of "Art Car: The Movie", a feature-length film by Houston filmmakers Ford Gunter and Carlton Ahrens that follows artist and educator Rebecca Bass and her high school class as they prepare an entry for the 2010 Houston Art Car Parade. Message from Art Brut et Compagnie, France1988 R. et P. Petit - rue Calvin Raymonde and Pierre Petit (1902–1990) and (1901–1990). There are very few creative couples in the history of art brut. Pierre worked in a carpentry shop in Bourges, central France while Raymonde had a small dressmaking business. They married in 1945 and did not have children. It was after Pierre's retirement in 1968 that they discovered, in their small apartment on rue Calvin in Bourges, hundreds of small "strange" objects that resembled like toys. They invented an imaginary world from their daily lives: at shops, hospital, church, household objects, including a sewing machine, the world of leisure (music, circus), travel (plane, truck, train), modernity (nuclear plant, television, machines), fiction (robots with housekeepers, standing men and the great healing robot Vagamay). 1983 Départ pour l'Amérique du Cirque Pinder - R. et P. Petit - Collection ABC Their creations are now in the collections of La Fabuloserie, abcd Paris, LaM - Ville d’Ascq and Bourges Museum. Pierre invented, sculpted wood with a simple penknife, and Raymonde always painted with the same six colours and had little influence except for flower pots and certainly sewing machines, like the Singer machine. This sewing machine which is currently used to make masks that are so badly needed. A mask and a machine that will remain among the symbols of this epidemic in France. La Creature Vous Attends So let's make masks, if we can, for us and for others like Christine, the weaver, a member of our association who makes masks for people with disabilities. Respect! A simple story, of "common people" – as Dubuffet liked to call the artists of art brut. Many of them are "ordinary people", "invisible" yesterday, who are today in our new world brought to the fore. Certainly they, like Raymonde and Pierre Petit, deserve to enter the museum, if there is one from Coronavirus. 1986 Vagamay Di Delridel - R. et P. Petit - musées de Bourges We do not forget, we lovers of art brut, Raymonde and Pierre Petit, just as we will not forget the caregivers, supermarket cashiers, garbage collectors, bakers, truckers.... and all the others, all those who made masks, those who saved our lives and who help us everyday to stay alive. 1987 machine Singer R. et P. Petit - Collection ABC Thank you to Raymonde and Pierre Petit, thank you to the artists, thank you to all those who take care of others. Take good care of yourself. Friendly and fraternal thoughts. Alain Moreau Flyer-Collection - ART BRUT William Hawkins Short Film from Breakaway FilmsWilliam Hawkins was born July 27, 1895 in Kentucky. He is one of the most highly regarded self-taught artists of the twentieth century. This short film was made by Jeffrey Wolf, Breakaway Films, and edited by Zach Wolf. Judith Scott Film from Creative GrowthCreative Growth Art Center has shared this full-length documentary on Judith Scott (1943–2005), produced by Lola Barrera and Julio Medem in 2006. It tells Scott's life, and also features many young faces of artists who still work in Creative Growth’s studio. The totality of Judith Scott's experiences and unique art practice are a renowned part of Creative Growth’s history, and her work continues to be studied and exhibited around the globe. Jennifer Lauren Gallery Seeking SubmissionsTerrance Wild During this uncertain time the Jennifer Lauren Gallery is seeking submissions from national and international artists that self-define as disabled and/or deaf. Raw Vision 105 Out Now!Half Price Back Issue SaleIn our special Spring Sale, we are offering a huge 50% off all back issues! If you are missing any copies in your RV collection, now is the time to order while we have stock! For a limited time only! 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