Detour Art

Detour Art is a web resource dedicated to the sheer joy of outsider, folk, visionary, self-taught, vernacular art and environment discoveries found all along the back roads (and side streets) around the world. Artists and sites are added to Detour Art as we discover them in other reference materials (books, magazines, websites, etc.), as we encounter them along the road, and in museum and gallery exhibits. If the person or site is in a published source about this genre, then they qualify to be on this site. References are included whenever possible. We try to only include self-taught artists, sites, etc. and it is on the honor system that individual listings are added. This is not intended to be a “marketing” tool for contemporary folk artists wanting show advertising that will be frequently updated. The intent is to create an encyclopaedic resource tool. We are not here to make judgements as to whether or not the quality as “true” outsiders, since the definitions are constantly being debated and shifted. You can decide for yourself.