The Society for Art of Imagination (AOI) is an international artists' society whose stated mission is to promote art of vision and craftsmanship. It has branches all over the world, and the American branch is a registered charity. AOI is affiliated with many other visionary art groups, including the Fantastic Art Centre

Fantastic Art Centre

The Fantastic Art Centre is a non profit research project founded by Christian De Boeck in 1977. The Honorary Patron Emeritus is Professor Ernst Fuchs...

 in South Africa

South Africa

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AOI was founded in 1961 by a group of artists from England who called themselves the Inscape

Inscape (visual art)

Inscape, in visual art, is a term especially associated with certain works of Chilean artist Roberto Matta, but it is also used in other senses within the visual arts. Though the term inscape has been applied to stylistically diverse artworks, it usually conveys some notion of representing the...

 Group, among them Diana Hesketh, Peter Holland

Peter Holland

Peter Holland is a senior lecturer in the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, Western Australia He previously had a long and distinguished career as a broadcaster, interviewer and newsreader...

, Brigid Marlin

Brigid Marlin

Brigid Marlin is an American artist based in Hertfordshire, UK. She studied in Dublin, Montreal, New York, Paris and Vienna where, under the guidance of the Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs, she learned the oil and egg tempera technique of the Flemish and Italian Renaissance painters Jan van Eyck and...

, Jack Ray and Steve Snell

Steve Snell

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. Some of AOI's Honorary Art Members are Ernst Fuchs

Ernst Fuchs (artist)

Ernst Fuchs is an Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, singer and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. In 1972 he acquired the derelict Otto Wagner Villa in Hütteldorf, which he restored and transformed...

, H R Giger, Robert Venosa

Robert Venosa

Robert Venosa was an American artist residing in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He studied with what are termed the New Masters. His artworks reside in collections around the world. -Life and works:...

, Martina Hoffmann, Alex Grey

Alex Grey

Alex Grey is an American artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Grey is a Vajrayana practitioner. His body of work spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and...

, Laurie Lipton, De Es, Philip Rubinov Jacobson and Ingo Swann

Ingo Swann

Ingo Swann is an artist and author, best known for his work as a co-creator of the discipline of remote viewing, specifically the Stargate Project...

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AOI holds annual art shows all over the world. It recently accepted a partnership role in the new Paradiso project, a museum and culture park in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

that is affiliated with the Ernst Fuchs Museum. AOI also publishes the magazine Inscape. Artists are welcome to join.