12: "Narrow" Larry Harris + Art Environments - FolkArtwork and Friends | Lyssna här

In the twelfth episode of the FolkArtwork and Friends podcast, I talk to my good friend and art environment extraordinaire, "Narrow" Larry Harris. I can't remember the first time I met Larry, but I've been going to his website, narrowlarry.com, for years as he has been documenting, scouring maps and encyclopedias, and more to find any and every art environment possible in the United States.

We talk about how his work as an architect influenced his love for these self-taught environments, including his visits to The Orange Show and Watts Towers, which led him to build a replica of the towers, now housed in the collection of the Kohler Museum.

Visit www.narrowlarry.com to find an art environment near you.

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Chapters

(00:00:00) - Folk Artwork: Season One
(00:00:34) - Art Environment Summer
(00:03:13) - Larry Harris in the Flesh
(00:03:44) - Interviewing Joe Farb Hernandez
(00:09:22) - Interview with Narrow Larry Harris
(00:11:41) - Eco-living and the environmental movement
(00:17:50) - Seymour Rosen on The Garden of Eden and Spaces
(00:23:43) - Watts Towers: My First Trip to the Towers
(00:25:07) - The Architecture of Blue Ruin
(00:27:52) - The Story of the Watch Towers
(00:31:27) - Talking the pyramids
(00:32:55) - How to Build a Scale Model of the Watts Towers
(00:37:54) - Frank Lloyd Wright on Dr. Charles Smith's Art Tours
(00:44:11) - The Art Environments
(00:47:47) - The Making of Rodeo
(00:50:30) - How Many Art Environments Have You Visited?
(00:52:39) - Exploring the Art Environments
(00:56:32) - A Few Words on the Orange Show
(00:58:16) - Narrow Larry
(01:00:41) - Bookmark promo

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