John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Arts fundingnews
Kohler heiress's foundation announces inaugural grants for non-profit cultural organisations
The grant-making initiative was launched with a $440m bequest from the late vernacular art collector and patron Ruth DeYoung Kohler
Outsider artnews
Art Preserve: first museum devoted to America’s homegrown ‘art environments’ opens in Wisconsin
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center has built the new facility to house more than 25,000 "life-specific" works, created over years by untrained artists using found materials
Obituariesnews
Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, Outsider art champion and Art Preserve founder, has died, aged 79
She helped establish the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin as one of the leading institutions dedicated to self-taught artists