Outsider Art Fair Paris and the American Center for Art & Culture present an evening of film featuring American outsider artists followed by a conversation with Tom di Maria, Director of External Relations at Creative Growth Art Center and Scott Ogden, director of MAKE and founder of SHRINE, New York, led by Marie Valentine Regan, Chair of the Film Department at the American University of Paris.
Saturday, October 19, 6pm
American Center for Art & Culture
34, avenue de New York
75016 Paris
MAKE, directed by Scott Ogden and Malcolm Hearn
The documentary, MAKE, is an intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott and Ike Morgan. Isolated and struggling with the disabilities life has dealt them, these artists all find their most powerful voice through art. Using the simplest of materials, they each produce work that is both sublime and at the same time completely their own. Primarily driven by scenes of the artists creating, their interwoven stories are told by the artists themselves as well as through family and friends whose lives they have touched.
Creative Growth Art Center in "San Francisco Bay Area," produced by Art21
Founded four decades ago, at the height of the disability-rights movement, Creative Growth Art Center is a nonprofit organization serving artists with physical and cognitive disabilities. Telling the story of remarkable individuals - Dan Miller, Judith Scott, William Scott, and Monica Valentine - and a uniquely productive artist community, this segment explores the idea that art-making is a fundamental human practice and should be accessible to all.