How do the categories of “outsider art,” patient art, and art brut relate to one another, and our understanding of the creative process? Scholars Kaira M. Cabañas and Raphael Koenig host a conversation about art and mental health in a global context, in conjunction with the exhibition Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch. Cabañas serves as the associate dean of academic programs and publications for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (The Center) at the National Gallery of Art, and Raphael Koenig is the visiting assistant professor in comparative literature at the University of Toulouse II and co-author of the Portals publication.

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Image: Paul Goesch, Architectural composition (Triumphal arch) or Visionary design for a gateway (detail), c. 1920–21, graphite and gouache on watercolor paper. Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, DR1988:0241