outsider art
outsider art
An Italian American self-taught artist from Oakland, California, adds yet another chapter in the story of Italian Americans and material culture.
Finding Romano Gabriel’s Wooden Sculpture Garden along the Italy-California border.
Sixty-six years ago, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited a Sicilian-American bootblack’s decorated shoeshine kit, contributing to the museum director’s eventual dismissal.
Driving for hours takes us to three California Italian American vernacular sites -- from urban LA to rural NorCal with a stop along the freeway in the Central Valley.