Visionary-art Environment: National Historic Context

Purpose

1.Survey Extant Resources

2.History

3.Evaluation Criteria

4.Preservation Best Practices

5.Networks

6.Raise Public Awareness

Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, North Carolina

Fred Smith’s Concrete Park, Wisconsin

Thunder Mountain, Imlay, Nevada

Pasaquan, Marion County, Georgia

Watts Towers, Los Angeles, California

Paradise Gardens, Pennville, Georgia

Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, North Carolina

Lonnie Holley’s Yard Show, Birmingham, Alabama

Examples of 20th-Century American Visionary Artists

Eddie Owens Martin(a.k.a. St. EOM)

Minnie Evans

Howard Finster

Joseph Zoettl

Baldasare Forestiere

E.T. Wickham

Tressa “Grandma” Presbrey

Eddie Owens Martin Howard Finster

Pasaquan Counterculture

Paradise Gardens

Hostel at Thunder Mountain, Imlay, Nevada

Samuel Dinsmoor

Garden of Eden, Lucas, Kansas

Garden of Eden,Lucas, Kansas

Garden of Eden,

Lucas, Kansas

Paradise Gardens

Paradise Gardens

Pasaquan, Marion County, Georgia

Pasaquan, Marion County, Georgia

Eddie Martin, c.1929 Eddie Martin, c.1929

Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers,Los Angeles, California

Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers,Los Angeles, California

Tressa Prisbrey

Bottle Village, Simi Valley, California

Nit Wit Ridge, Cambria, California

Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, North Carolina

Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, North Carolina

Watts Towers, Los Angeles, California

Fred Smith’s Concrete Park, Wisconsin

E.T. Wickham, Roadside Sculpture Park, Tennessee

Pasaquan

Pasaquan

Paradise Gardens,Pennville, Georgia

Baldasare Forestiere’s Underground Gardens

Pasaquan

American Visionary Art MuseumBaltimore, Maryland

Pasaquan

c.1990 2007

Paradise Gardens, Pennville, Georgia

c.1997 2007