While in Baltimore a few weeks ago, I went to check out the American Visionary Art Museum.

Anything can be art, it’s all in the eye of the beholder, right?

“Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself.”

In other words, things created by visionaries, geniuses, amateurs and random crazies, in most cases never intended to be art.

Which makes it all the more interesting. Plus points for a great restaurant on the top floor.

The Visionary Art Museum is located at the base of historic Federal Hill, adjacent to downtown Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, and is open 10:00am – 6:00pm, Tuesday – Sunday.

You will find it where you least expect it—as a coffee stain on your shirt or inside the onion that made you cry, all you need to do is look… Happy Valentine’s Day.

Second image via Native Kee.

On Sunday a friend invited me to come along as an extra for an art video shoot. She knew the director, and the only other things we knew were that the video was for Sting and that we were to wear phosphorescent (glow-in-the-dark) paint. The shoot was in a studio in Williamsburg and there were about ten of us “actors” there. The director placed us into formations, painted our limbs with the phosphorescent paint and took shots for a stop-motion animation that will be used on Sting’s upcoming tour. An afternoon a bit out of the ordinary… I will share the finished video whenever I get to see it.