Intuit's 2017 Fall Visionary Ball:
The Vivian Girls Journey to Germania
Annually, Intuit puts on a Visionary Ball to celebrate another year of celebrating outsider art, and to raise mad money to facilitate more of the next year's work. 2017's theme centers around the museum's yearlong focus on Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and outsider artist whose genius was revealed after his death in Lincoln Park at age 92, when his landlords cleared from his tiny living quarters hundreds of masterful paintings as well as a 10,000 page epic novel titled In the Realms of the Unreal, an insanely detailed story about the Vivian Girls, 7 girls on a romantic mission to defeat child slavery. We are taking guests on a journey to Germania Place, where they are invited to celebrate the wonder of Darger and the Vivian Girls and to help write the next chapter of Realms.
Illustration for foldout invitation. To recreate a scene reminiscent of Henry Darger's lush panoramic paintings, I scoured through hundreds of pages torn out from vintage coloring book pages that make up the source material of the artist that live in Intuit's permanent collection. I found images that thematically helped to tell the story of this year's Visionary Ball, and pulled tiny details from each image to reconstruct into a new illustration that honors the artist.
Graphics for Intuit's website and social media, using the striking reddish orange color distinct in Darger's paintings.
Scenic Darger-inspired graphic, projected and painted onto a 7x5 foot canvas as a backdrop for taking pictures in front of at the event
Notes included in the invitation package, with messages from Intuit staff and board members.