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Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments (SPACES or SPACES Archives) is a non-profit public benefit organization created with an international focus on the study, documentation, and preservation of art environments (or visionary environments) and self-taught art. Currently based in Aptos, California, SPACES boasts an archive of approximately 25,000 photographs as well as numerous books, articles, audio and video tapes/DVDs, and artists’ documents. SPACES has become recognized internationally as the largest and most complete archive on this subject.

SPACES maintains and online index of more than 900 art environments around the world, exhibiting their collection of images, documents, writing, and further reading on the artists or their built environment.



History
Incorporated in 1978, Founding Director Seymour Rosen