Regular Folk's Art Koehnline Museum at Oakton Features Works by Self-Taught Artists
Byline: James Kane jkane@dailyherald.com
Fifty works by self-taught artists put together over 30 years by a Naperville couple will be on display for three months at the Koehnline Museum of Art at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines.
The exhibit, "Arient Family Collection: Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century," features sculptures, paintings, drawings, textiles, metal works and ceramics by artists without any formal training.
The "folk" and "outsider" works were collected from across the United States north and south, urban and rural, black and white neighborhoods by Jim and Beth Arient.
They avoided dealers and other …
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Article title: Regular Folk's Art Koehnline Museum at Oakton Features Works by Self-Taught Artists.
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Newspaper title: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL).
Publication date: April 28, 2011.
Page number: 1.
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