Raw and Ardor: Mount Dora Center for the Arts
• Outsider art: Is this a generous term that welcomes untrained artists? Or is it an othering label that belittles those without the privilege of a formal art education? Sometimes this art is called “naive” or “visionary.” Visionary it often is, but naive it is not – it comes from the minds and hands of artists dealing with poverty, homelessness, and disabilities. Providing art supplies and classes has long been recognized as a form of therapy, but some organizations go further than that. Coalition Ingénu, a nonprofit that relocated from Philadelphia to Lake Wales last year, has discovered huge talents among the artists it’s nurtured. And it acts for them much as a gallery would – organizing and promoting exhibits for …
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