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Past Exhibitions and Programs  

 

Since Intuit was founded in 1991,
the organization has created an outstanding record of innovative exhibitions, lectures, music and film series, and other programming about outsider art. The following is an archive that documents many of these events.

Past Exhibits and Programs
Current Exhibitions
Future Exhibitions
 

2008
Exhibitions

Least Wanted: A Century of American Mugshots
The Mark Michaelson Collection

January 18 - April 12, 2008

Programs
Preview Performance: As Told by the Vivian Girls
March 13
Developing Visual Narratives Using Appropriated Images
Based on the art of Henry Darger

March 8
Mr. Imagination Benefit
February 28
Curator’s Tour of the Henry Darger Room Collection
February 16
Gallery Talk with Mark Michaelson
January 19


2007
Exhibitions
A.G. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent Vision
September 14, 2007 – January 5, 2008
Recent and Anniversary Gifts to the Permanent Collection

July 13 - January 5, 2008
Lonnie Holley: Artist in Residence
May 11 - September 1
"Don't Fence Me In": The Art of Daniel Watson

January 19 - June 23
Ken Grimes: ELUSIVE MESSAGES
January 19 - May 2, 2007

Programs

ELUSIVE EVIDENCE: a Film and Performance Investigation of the Extra Terrestrial

February 17 - March 15
"Personal Vision//Collective Obsession: Alien Contact in the Art of Ken Grimes and Contemporary Culture," a talk by Charles Russell
March 10
The Intuit Show 2007
April 27-30
Intuit's Annual Benefit Gala: In the Realms of the Unreal
October 20
Martín Ramírez Lecture with Victor Espinosa
October 25
Intuit Tours Martín Ramírez Exhibition
October 27
Dislocation/This Location
November 15
Better Homes and a Few Gardens
November 29
Intuit Tours Kohler Arts Center
December 1
Sun Always Shining: The Life and Times of Kenneth Williams
December 6



2006
Exhibitions
Take Me to the River
September 15 - January 6, 2007
Selections from the Permanent Collection

May 5 - September 2
Revelation! The Quilts of Marie "Big Mama" Roseman
May 5 - September 2
Accidental Mysteries: Extraordinary Vernacular Photographs from the Collection of John & Teenuh Foster
January 13 - April 29
In the Eyes of Mr. Dawson
January 13 - March 18

Programs
Music with Little Howlin' Wolf and Lord of the Yum-Yum
November 16
15th Anniversary Symposia
September 16, October 14, November 4
Beyond Boundaries: An Artists Dialogue
October 28
Chicago 360, Split Pillow films
October 18
Umbrella Music Festival: Trio M
October 13
15th Anniversary Gala
October 7
An Evening with Found Magazine and PostSecret
June 2
Literature for All of Us poetry and drum performance
June 1
The Last Folk Hero Book Signing and Conversation with Andrew Dietz
May 13
Vanessa Smith Lecture and Slideshow on James Castle
May 11
Laporte, Indiana Book Signing with Found Magazine's Jason Bitner

April 27
April Fool's Day Improvised Percussion with Han Bennink
April 1
Fred Scruton lecture: "Get Rid Of That Pain In The Neck!" Photographing Folk Art and Outsider Environments within the Fine Art Tradition
March 23
Vernacular Photography in Focus, a panel discussion
March 18
The Vernacular Imprint on Chicago Art and Artists, a panel discussion
March 16
Other People's Pictures, a documentary on snapshot collectors
March 2
An Evening of Music with Kevin Montgomery
February 23
A Talk with Gregg Blasdel, art environment scholar
February 16
A Conversation on the Art of William Dawson
February 9



2005
Exhibitions
Singular Visions: Images of Art Brut from the Anthony J. Petullo Collection
September 16 - December 31
Art from the Inside: Paño Drawings by Chicano Prisoners
June 17 - September 3
Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan
February 11 - May 28
FOUND: The Magazine, the Stuff
January 7 - January 29

Programs
Music and Sound Poetry with Jaap Blonk
December 10
A Talk with Johann Feilacher, Director of the Gugging House of Artists
November 10
Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art
September 30 - October 2
Blues for Breakfast
May 8 (Mother's Day)
"Enchanted Highway" radio documentary
Premiered at Intuit January 24
African-American Vernacular Art: A Secret Language, A Hidden Tradition
Lecture and panel discussion January 15
Midwest Premiere of "In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger"
January 13


2004
Exhibitions
Genesis: Gifts and Promised Gifts from the Permanent Collection
September 10 - December 30
Old World, New Country: The Art of Joseph Garlock
October 15 - January 15, 2005
Vibrant Spirits: The Art of Derek Webster
July 8 - October 2
Outside the Lines: Ordinary Pastimes, Extraordinary Art
June 11 - August 28
Laura Craig McNellis: Inside Out 1970 - 2003
March 12 - June 4
Sistuhs: Four African American Self-Taught Artists
April - June 26

Programs
5th Annual Outsider Music Series
Fall 2004
Panel Discussion on Chicago Imagists and Outsider Artists
October 21
Lecture by the Inventor of Paint-By-Numbers

June 30


2003
Exhibitions
Nitty Gritty Slim's Bike and the Street Art of Curtis Cuffie and Wesley Willis
June 13
Studies and Sketches from the Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum
March 14 - June 1
Visions Realized: The Paintings and Process of Henry Darger
March 14 - June 1
Albert Zahn "I'll Fly Away"
December 12 - February 28, 2004

Programs
Lecture on Anna Zemankova

February 22
Slide Lecture on Henry Darger by Brooke Davis Anderson
April 3


2002
Exhibitions
Levi Fischer Ames "Menagerie"
December 13 - March 1, 2003
American Stone Carving
March 8 - May 25
Eight from Europe
April 19 - April 2003
Soulful Pieces: Memory Jars and Improvised Quilts by Unknown Makers
June 7 - August 31

Programs
"Prophecies" Lecture


2001
Exhibitions
Vodou Visionaries Exhibition
March 9- May 26
American Masters Exhibition
September 1, 2000 - September 1
Sam Doyle Exhibition
November 9 - March 30, 2002
Without Ego: Anonymous Works
December 9, 2000 - February 24
Jim Work
June 15- August 25


2000
Exhibitions
Metamorphosis: The Fiber Art of Judith Scott
September 8 - November 25
William L. Hawkins
April 7 - August 26

Programs
Wendy McDaris lecture: Elvis as Icon
March 19

1999
Exhibitions
A Spiritual Journey: The Art of Eddie Lee Kendrick

1998
Exhibitions
Christian's People: Donald Wainwright
November 6 - January 23, 1999

1997
Exhibitions
Images in a Silent World: The Art of James Castle
January 19 - March 15

1996
Exhibitions
The Art of Aldo Piacenza: Celebration of Church and Country
February 4 - March 30
The Outsider Art of Fred Smith, Jack Ellsworth, and Tom Every
June 15, 1996 - April 14, 1997
Mose Tolliver: Early Works
June 23 - September 14
Time on Their Hands: The Tramp Art Tradition
September 29 - January 4, 1997

1995
Exhibitions
Self : The Paintings of Drossos P. Skyllas
May 5 - June 3
Fancy Work: The Domestic Textiles of Cora Meek
October 20 - November 18
Ballyhoo
December 3 - January 27, 1996

1994
Exhibitions
African Hair Signs
April 7 - May 8
Crowning Achievements: The Crimped & Cutting Edge in Bottle Cap Sculpture
October 7 - November 6

1993
Exhibitions
Eureka ! Recent Discoveries from Intuit Members' Collections
May 7 - June 6
Eccentric Chairs
October 1 - 30

 


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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art promotes public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of intuitive and outsider art through education,
exhibition, collecting and publishing.  Intuit defines ‘intuitive and outsider art’ as the work of artists who demonstrate little influence from the mainstream art world,
and who instead are motivated by their unique personal vision. This definition includes art brut, non-traditional folk art, self-taught art, and visionary art.