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The founder and director of the AVAM is Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, who while working in the development department of Sinai Hospital's (Baltimore) People Encouraging People (a program geared toward aiding psychiatric patients in their return to the community) began to develop the idea for a visionary museum, an idea that eventually blossomed into the American Visionary Art Museum, or AVAM.
American Visionary Art Museum: Federal Hill: Art: Visionary art: B&O Railroad Museum: Washington Village: Railway: Collection includes 250 pieces of railroad rolling stock, 15,000 artifacts, an outdoor G-scale layout, an indoor HO scale model, and a wooden model train Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum: Downtown Baltimore: Sports
Part of the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre collection can be seen at the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. [4] Three machines made by Tim Hunkin , which were formerly part of the Covent Garden display, have been moved to Hunkin's own exhibition Novelty Automation in Holborn , London.
The museum picked up two touring shows, complementing its focus on artists of color. “Cowboy,” organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver, opens Sept. 28 and runs through March 16.
Hoffberger is the Founder and Director Emeritus (October 2022) of the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM). [4] A life-long devotee of the power of intuition and fresh thought, Hoffberger was accepted into college at age 15, [ 5 ] though chose instead the personal invitation of internationally renowned mime Marcel Marceau , to become his first ...
Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953) is an American visual artist, author, teacher, and Vajrayana practitioner known for creating spiritual and psychedelic artwork such as his 21-painting Sacred Mirrors series. [1] He works in multiple forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and painting.
James Hampton (April 8, 1909 – November 4, 1964) was an American outsider artist.Hampton worked as a janitor and secretly built a large assemblage of religious art from scavenged materials, known as the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) was established in 1989 as the Fine Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. [1] The center is the university's prime exhibition location where students, professors, staff and the public can experience visual culture along with cultural and aesthetic issues.