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The founder and director of the AVAM is Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, who while working in the development department of Sinai Hospital's (Baltimore) People Encouraging People (a program geared toward aiding psychiatric patients in their return to the community) began to develop the idea for a visionary museum, an idea that eventually blossomed into the American Visionary Art Museum, or AVAM.
Rebecca Alban Hoffberger was born in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland to Allen, a mechanical engineer, and Peggy Alban, a homemaker. [2] [3]Hoffberger is the Founder and Director Emeritus (October 2022) of the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM). [4]
Grace Bashara Greene's piece The Button Lady and a shawl, originally made for her daughter Lizzie, hand-sewn from hundreds of pieces of antique lace and further decorated with beads, ribbons and other trinkets, are held by the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. [3]
In 1996 her work Ezekiel Ch. 31 was included in the exhibition "TRee of Life" at the American Visionary Art Museum. [4] In 1999 a book about her Revelation series, entitled Wonders to Behold: The Visionary Art of Myrtice West was published by Mustang Publishing (ISBN 0914457993). [5] She died on April 12, 2010, in Centre, Alabama. [3]
Kellard is represented in the collections of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, Prudential Insurance Company in Newark, New Jersey, the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, New Jersey, the Grey Art Gallery at New York ...
This year they submitted hundreds of designs to the 45th annual valentine design contest sponsored by the museum and the library. Some emulated Howland’s style. Others took a more modern approach.