The Grassroots Art Center - Lucas, KS
N 39° 03.475 W 098° 32.282
14S E 539970 N 4323305
The Grassroots Art Center exhibits and promotes the appreciation of the work of self-taught artists, especially those whose work tends toward environments rather than individual works.
Waymark Code: WM93GP
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 06/22/2010
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My wife and I travel Round America visiting all 50 states on two-lane roads. One of our enjoyable finds was The Grassroots Art Center in Lucas, Kansas.
The Grassroots Art Center exhibits and promotes the appreciation of the work of self-taught artists, especially those whose work tends toward environments rather than individual works. Its galleries display the work of local artists as well as regional self-taught or "outsider" artists. See RoundAmerica.com Trip Journal for more information and photos.
"Grassroots art" is defined as art made by people with no formal artistic training -- usually done by folks of retirement age. Some folks call it outsider art, naive art, primitive art, folk art, raw art, recycled or trash art, intuitive art, art brut, self-taught art, and probably a few other terms.
As I looked around, I immediately realized that a lot of the Quirky stuff we had seen during our trips Round America would qualify as "grassroots art." I learned that grassroots art environments tend to be rather ephemeral, with ninety percent of the sites destroyed at the death of the maker. As I thought about how much we have hated to see the past gone or decaying, I immediately became a big fan of grassroots art and the work being done by The Grassroots Art Center and other groups to preserve this art.