Outsider Art – Susan Rushton

June 28, 2023

Telling A Story With The Help Of Church Goin Mule

I’m going to offer up two stories using the same subject, each told in three pictures.

Winged mule by Church Goin Mule in Clarksdale

All the artwork is by Church Goin Mule and in Clarksdale, Mississippi, home of The Blues. I think that the ghost mule’s hind legs are partly obscuring ‘Blessissippi’. Continue reading “Telling A Story With The Help Of Church Goin Mule”

February 16, 2017September 25, 2018

Outsider Art: Watts Towers by Sabato Rodia at Dusk

I’ve never liked the term ‘Outsider Art’, so why am I using it? Good question. It gives me a chance to take a pop at it a sentence or two later! Art, of all things, should be inclusive. Outsider Art seems to imply exclusion or at least condescension (“they’ve had no training, you know”), as if there is an overarching Art Club, but you have to be a paid-up member to lunch there. Continue reading “Outsider Art: Watts Towers by Sabato Rodia at Dusk”