self-taught

John Kane, John Kane and His Wife, c. 1928. “Untrained” doesn’t mean unskilled.
A Century of Inventing Artists at the American Folk Art Museum

In the United States, the historical formulation of the “self-taught artist” is loaded with assumptions about class, race, and mental health that have obfuscated the figure of the…

Collaged Drawings of faces, hands, and words frame a photo of a the artist
High Museum Celebrates Self-Taught Artist Nellie Mae Rowe
Really Free is the first major presentation of her work in more than twenty years and the first to consider her practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil…