Work by self-taught artists will be displayed within a Douglas fir-wrapped museum in eastern Wisconsin designed by US firm Tres Birds Workshop to evoke the natural landscape.
Slated to open this June, The Art Preserve is described as the world's first museum devoted to "art environments" ? spaces created by artists, typically in their own homes and yards. Often, the creators have no formal art training.
Top: photo is by Durston Saylor. Above: Tres Birds Workshop built the museum in Wisconsin
The three-storey facility is located in Sheboygan, a small city about an hour's drive north of Milwaukee. The project was designed by Tres Birds Workshop, a Denver studio focused on economical and sustainable design.
The new museum is part of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, a nearby cultural venue that is dedicated to contemporary work by vernacular and self-taught artists, along with artists who are academically trained. The Art Preserve spans three storeys
The independent, nonprofit centre was established in 1967 with support from the Kohlers ? the family behind the Kohler Company, a leading manufacturer of plumbing fixtures.
The new museum sits on a grassy and tree-dotted hillside, adjacent to the Sheboygan River.
Encompassing 56,000 square feet (5,203 square meters), the building will house more than 25,000 pieces from the Kohler Art Center's collection.
Tres Birds' museum sits on a Sheboygan hillside. Photo is by Durston Saylor
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