Jan­u­ary 16–31, 2007
Open­ing Recep­tion: Thurs­day Jan­u­ary 18th, 6–10 pm
@ Car­rozzini von Buh­ler Gallery
407 West 13th Street, New York 10014
(13th St. and 9th Ave.)

The Leg­endary Raw Arts Fes­ti­val heads to New York in Jan­u­ary 2007 to offer a fresh alter­na­tive to the New York Out­sider Art Fair as one of the first major non-mainstream art fes­ti­vals to hit the states. This is New York’s first fes­ti­val to be led by and run for the raw artists them­selves. In the begin­ning, the Raw Arts Fes­ti­val made its crit­i­cally acclaimed debut in Lon­don in August 2004 and fol­lowed up big­ger and bet­ter in May 2005. It has been widely rec­og­nized as “London’s largest and best Inter­na­tional exhi­bi­tion of self-taught art mounted to date.” In 2005, the cre­ator of the Raw Arts Fes­ti­val began col­lab­o­rat­ing with NY Arts Mag­a­zine to cre­ate “Spain’s first non-mainstream art fes­ti­val” in Valen­cia 2006. The col­lab­o­ra­tion has con­tin­ued and resulted in The Raw Arts Fes­ti­val – New York 2007.

The event will exhibit 28 well-established and self-taught/Outsider artists’ work from all over the world, includ­ing Dover Abrams, Mag­gie Camp­bell, Sunny Chap­man, Brain Dow­dall, Bethany Fancher, Stephen Judges, Mike Kelly, Akiko Kitami, Nino Kor­in­teli, Jes­sica Lum, Paula McCul­lough, Franco Mel­oni, Piers Mid­win­ter, Joe Moor­man, Lia Pantsu­laia, Joel Pinker­ton, Ben Reche, Renate Sef­fer, Robert Seven, Julia Sisi, Josh Slavin, Brian Steimel, Lynne Sweeney, Eliz­a­beth Turn­bull and Lori Vynalek. The Folk­wares orga­ni­za­tion will also be present at Raw Arts, rep­re­sent­ing art­works by Michel Bayne, Dwayne Crocker and Tammy Leigh.