American Visionary Arts Museum
American Visionary Arts Museum
The American Visionary Arts Museum celebrates artwork created by self-taught individuals in its spacious gallery with over 4,000 pieces in the permanent collection. The adjacent Jim Rouse Visionary Center houses the museum’s oversized sculptures, art cars and screen paintings, a Baltimore specialty.
AVAM's Seven Education Goals
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Expand the definition of a worthwhile life.
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Engender respect for and delight in the gifts of others.
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Increase awareness of the wide variety of choices available in life for all ... particularly students
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Encourage each individual to build upon his or her own special knowledge and inner strengths
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Promote the use of innate intelligence, intuition, self-exploration, and creative self-reliance.
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Confirm the great hunger for finding out just what each of us can do best, in our own voice, at any age.
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Empower the individual to choose to do that something really, really well.
AVAM Summer Art Camp
AVAM's Summer Art Camp is a thrilling creative experience for young minds. Students will EXPLORE visionary art, use new and unusual materials to CREATE original artwork, and ENGAGE in a special, week-long visiting artist workshop.