Artists and scholars from Intuit and Roger Brown Study Collection joined Art Design Chicago to explore artist Joseph Yoakum’s “Atlas,” beginning in Chicago, where he is still revered; his early impact on artists and presence in their collections; his impact on successive generations of artists, including artists working today; and new “windows” into his life and work. Panelists included scholar Lisa Stone, Roger Brown Study Collection collection manager James Connolly, contemporary artist Tim Nickodemus, and Intuit board member and Yoakum enthusiast Cleo Wilson.
Chicago called, Amsterdam answered. The 2018 hit exhibition Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow finishes the last leg of its European tour at the Outsider Art Museum (OAM) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. OAM Director Hans Looijen joined Intuit President and CEO Deb Kerr to share his impressions of Chicago Calling and take viewers behind the institution’s closed doors to show the installation. The two directors addressed the complexity of the genre’s terminology and discussed why and how the Outsider Art Museum chose its name.
