“Art Therapy and Outsider Art” at the WPA World Congress

The special session “Art Therapy and Outsider Art” was held on the initiative of the Russian NGO “Outsiderville” (St. Petersburg) within the framework of the WPA World Congress, which took place in Bangkok 3 –6 August 2022. The section was chaired by Olga Fominykh (Founder of the “Outsiderville”), and co-chaired by Anna Suvorova (Doctor of Art History) and Thomas Röske (Ph.D., Director of the Prinzhorn Collection).

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