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"Through forty-three artists, born over a span of a hundred years, We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection explores the ways in which artists, and the pioneering collectors who recognized the value of their work, brought lasting change to the face of American art. The exhibition and catalogue center on select artists collected by Margaret Z. Robson between the late 1980s and her death in 2014. Robson believed that these artists reflected a truly diverse nation of makers, and critically expanded the boundaries of American art through singular bodies of work. The Smithsonian American Art Museum broke new ground in 1970, showing and collecting folk and self-taught artists who challenged conventional notions about art and artists. In 2016 the Margaret Z. Robson collection was donated to SAAM by Margaret's son, Douglas O. Robson, uniting these kindred visions. Doug Robson has continued to support an expansive vision of art, and the exhibition also features artworks from Doug's own collection, promised to SAAM"--

Outsider art --- Art, American --- Robson, Margaret Z., --- Robson, John E., --- Robson, Douglas O., --- Art collections --- Smithsonian American Art Museum --- Aaron Douglas. --- Adage. --- African Americans. --- American Folk Art Museum. --- Anselm Kiefer. --- Art in America. --- Art movement. --- Artists Rights Society. --- Augusta Savage. --- Beadwork. --- Ben Ratliff. --- Biblical Magi. --- Bill Traylor. --- Book. --- Carny. --- Cathy. --- Child of God. --- Clarence Schmidt. --- Clementine Hunter. --- Collection de l'art brut. --- Comic strip. --- Compulsory voting. --- Curator. --- Daniel J. Boorstin. --- David C. Driskell. --- Down syndrome. --- Edward Hicks. --- Electra Havemeyer Webb. --- Elijah Pierce. --- Essay. --- Etymology. --- Federal Art Project. --- First appearance. --- Folk art. --- George Floyd. --- Gladys Nilsson. --- God. --- Gullah. --- Harcourt (publisher). --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Headline. --- Henry Darger. --- Holger Cahill. --- Horace Pippin. --- Ibid (short story). --- In the Realms of the Unreal. --- James Johnson Sweeney. --- James Weldon Johnson. --- Jerry Siegel. --- Jim Nutt. --- John Trumbull. --- Jon Serl. --- Joseph Yoakum. --- Judith Scott (artist). --- Knoxville Museum of Art. --- Lonnie Holley. --- Marino Auriti. --- Matthew Higgs. --- Metonymy. --- Michael Kimmelman. --- Mieke Bal. --- Modern Primitives (book). --- Modernism. --- Mutability (poem). --- Narrative. --- Nellie Mae Rowe. --- Oppression. --- Outsider art. --- Philadelphia Wireman. --- Poetry. --- Publication. --- Purvis Young. --- Radical criticism. --- Renwick Gallery. --- Requirement. --- Robert Farris Thompson. --- Robert Goldwater. --- Robert Rauschenberg. --- Roberta Smith. --- Sam Doyle. --- Shirley Chisholm. --- Slavery. --- Smithsonian American Art Museum. --- Smithsonian Institution. --- Storytelling. --- Surrealism. --- The Other Hand. --- The Public Interest. --- Their Lives. --- This Country. --- Thornburg v. Gingles. --- Thornton Dial. --- Tom Joyce. --- Ulysses Davis (artist). --- Voting. --- Warner Sallman. --- William Arnett. --- William Edmondson. --- Wonders of the World. --- Work of art.