THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC

BALTIMORE, Maryland, 21230-3940 United States

Mission Statement

The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is a congressionally designated national museum and education center for creative, intuitive and self-tutored artistry in all its manifestations. AVAM is dedicated to the exhibition, study, collection, preservation, and promotion of visionary art and to increasing the public's awareness, knowledge, and understanding of this manner of artistic expression and creative, compassionate thinking. 

About This Cause

What is Visionary Art? Like love, you know it when you see it. But here's the longer definition, straight out of our Mission Statement “Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself.” In short, visionary art begins by listening to the inner voices of the soul, and often may not even be thought of as 'art' by its creator.

THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC
800 Key Hwy
BALTIMORE, Maryland 21230-3940
United States
Phone 410-244-1900
Website www.avam.org
Twitter @theavam
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