Gregg Blasdel

Gregg Blasdel (1941–2024) was an artist, curator, and educator. His seminal Art in America article “The Grass Roots Artist” introduced a broad arts audience to artist-built environments in 1968. His curatorial work includes Naives and Visionaries at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1974, and his photography has been featured in numerous publications, including Fantastic Architecture and Eccentric Visions (1980) and Jesse Howard and Roger Brown; Now Read On (2006). Blasdel received his BFA in painting from the University of Kansas and his MFA in sculpture and painting from Cornell University. His work has been exhibited in New York and throughout New England. In 2020, he gifted his entire collection of images and research related to artist-built environments to SPACES Archives. 

He was a Professor Emeritus at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont. Blasdel lived and worked as a printmaker in Burlington, Vermont, and continued to travel and document the work of self-taught artists until his passing in 2024.