Welcome to Baltimore and the American Visionary Art Museum. The dynamic rotating exhibitions, really speak to the AVAMs prodigious use of space, making the building seem less like a collection of collections, and more one seamless Art installation. But the stories, Particularly the stories found in the museums permanent collection speak to the heart of the AVAM mission. There are certain running themes; mostly About a compulsion to create for the purposes of personal transmutation.
What is being transmuted is often a discomfort or acknowledgment of sorts between the artist and their interpretation of the world around them;
often time speaking to something like pain, or confusion.
I asked Gage to point out a favorite of his.
Links
www.Artifications.com
https://www.avam.org/history
https://www.britannica.com/place/Baltimore#:~:text=Baltimore%20was%20established%20in%201729,being%20harnessed%20for%20flour%20milling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Calvert,_2nd_Baron_Baltimore
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70650/25-things-you-should-know-about-baltimore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Hill,_Baltimore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Alban_Hoffberger#:~:text=Rebecca%20Alban%20Hoffberger%20(born%20September,of%20the%20outsider%20art%20world%E2%80%9C.
