OUTSIDE IN OPEN
Applications by July 20, 2012
In Outside In is a UK based project that provides a platform for artists who find it difficult to access the art world. The Outside In: National 2012 will provide an opportunity for artists to submit two pieces of work for selection for an exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, the deadline for applications is July 20, 2012

VON BRUENCHENHEIN SHOW AT INTUIT
Until January 14, 2012
You Better Be Listening: Text in Self-Taught Art explores the use of words in art, and From the Wand of the Genii, explores the dominant presence of nature, architecture and imaginative structures in the work of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. February 10 – June 30, 2012 Heaven and Hell includes work by William Thomas Thompson.

INTUIT,
The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60642
t: 312 243 9088  
www.art.org

Image: Eugene Von Bruenchenhein

HOWARD FINSTER
Until January 31, 2012
The Village of Long Grove, Illinois is to play host to an exhibition that holds 200 works by Howard Finster. After passing away in 2001, the fate of the artist’s Paradise Gardens became uncertain. It was purchased by a local organisation intent on preserving the site, although funds were very limited.

In 2009 The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation recognised their efforts and listed the site as worthy of preservation. The National Registry of Historic Places wants to list the gardens and Chattooga County want to turn the gardens into a county park

www.visitlonggrove.com/finster/howardfinster.html

Image: Adolf Wölfli

ARTS PROJECT AWARD
4 February – 9 March, 2012
Good Strong Powerful shows three Northern Territory art studios, working with indigenous artists with disabilities. Arts Project Australia has won the 2011 Melbourne Award for Contributions to Community.

Arts Project Australia
24 High Street,
Northcote, VIC 3070, Australia.
t: + 61 (0)3 9482 4484
www.artsproject.org.au

Image: Alfonso Puautjimi

PSYCHIATRIC ENCOUNTERS AT LAGERHAUS
Until March 11, 2012
Hidden treasures from Swiss Psychiatry II: Encounters features the art work of Gertrud Schwyzer, Julius Süss alias Hans Volkmar, Hans Brühlmann and Günther Uecker in a group exhibition, many items of which are to be on display for the first time.

The Prinzhorn Collection shows Roger Ballen
Museum Im Lagerhaus, Davidstrasse 44, CH-9000, St.Gallen, Switzerland.
t: +41 (0)71 223 58 57
www.museumimlagerhaus.ch

Image Caption: Julius Süss

LaM: LILLE MÉTROPOLE MUSÉE
Until January 31, 2012
Exhibition habiter poétiquement le monde shows over 350 works that explore artistic responses to the everyday. The museum’s art brut collection is also on display.

LaM
1 allée du Musée, 59650, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
t: +33 (0)3 20 19 68 88
www.musee-lam.fr

Image: Adolf Wölfli

PRINZHORN JUBILEE
Until March 4, 2012
Unseen and Unheard - Jubilee exhibition part II, December 8, 2011 – February 5, 2012 Prinzhorn’s Book presents the ideas depicted in his book Artistry of the Mentally Ill.

Museum Prinzhorn Collection,
Voßstr. 2, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany
t: +49 (0)6221 564725
www.prinzhorn.uni-hd.de

Image: August Klett