Whether it is an autodidactic craftsman or a contemporary art titan, you can make illustrations anywhere everywhere. As the saying reads, the only limit is your imagination. And when art and life cross each other, the distinction between the two sometimes disappears.
As the National Trust for Historic Preservation can tell you, houses and studios from Rural Kansas to the bustle of Manhattan have been the locus of eclectic, quirky and innovative ideas that illustrate how creativity and daily existence are one and the same.
Last month, the NTHP announced the addition of 19 new ownership members to his Historical artists houses and studios program. Consisting of locations that vary from houses and workplaces to quarries and hand -assembled Fantasylands, the new spaces bring the total number of network participants at 61 in the US.
Colossal readers may be familiar with one of last month’s additions, the Kosciusko, Mississippi, the home of LV Hull (1942-2008), which was included in the National Register of Historic Places last summer. The designation was the first to honor the residence of an African -American female visual artist, and it was also the first time that a home art environment of an Afro -Mamerikaan was on the list.
Women are prominent in this year’s announcement, including Pope’s Museum in Ochlocknee, Georgia, which is distinguished as the oldest remaining artists-built environment by a woman in the US, a self-direct maker, Laura Pope Forester (1873-1953) installations, including Murals and other works that pay for the performance of women, military veterans and literary figures. The crochet -like white facade consists of sewing machine parts.
Extra places include the houses of pioneering female artists Louise Bourgeois and Carolee Schneemann, together with remarkable creations such as Oma Prisbey’s Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California, and the unique surroundings of Mary Nohl in Fox Point, Wisconsin.
Plan your visits to the historic houses and studios website.
