"A masters diploma in self-taught art has to be earned the hard way: there are no short cuts through its unpredictable syllabus, and there is no institutional authority to supervise and review what goes on.... Mature self-taught artists tend to have self-pride as well as visual style, so that one is tempted to equate their artistic competence with their competence at being themselves." -Roger Cardinal: The "Self" in Charles Russell's Self-Taught Art.

Our Favorite Websites:

· rawvision.com · outsider.art.org · artbrut.ch · folkart.org · creativegrowth.org · southernfolklore.com · vsarts.org · hospitalaudiences.org · graceart.org

· mennellomuseum.com · high.org · themorris.org · kyfolkart.org · noma.org · msmuseumart.org · folkartmuseum.org · gugging.org

Our Favorite Books:

· Outsider Art by Roger Cardinal (out of print) · Raw Creation by John Maizels · Self-Taught Art by Charles Russell (collection of essays) · Passionate Visions by Alice Rae Yelen · Cellblock Visions by Phyllis Kornfeld · Self-Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art by Betty-Carol Sellen · Discovering Child Art by Jonathan Fineberg (essays) · Outsider Art of the South by Kathy Moses · Outsider Art by Colin Rhodes · Marginalia by Cardinal, Rhodes, Van Berken, & Ten Berge · Fantasy Worlds by Maizels · Sonneastro: die Kunstler aus Gugging (german&english) · Art Brut und psychiatrie (german text, great pictures) · Art Brut by Lucienne Peiry (translated by Frank Flammarion) · The Discovery of the Art of the Insane by John M. McGregor · Souls Grown Deep by Paul and William Arnett · Self-Taught And Outsider Art by Anthony Petullo · The Innocent Eye by Jonathan Fineberg