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Larry Bissonnette Larry Bissonnette was born in Winooski, Vermont, in 1957. A high fever at the age of two was the apparent cause of some kind of damage to his nervous system. At eight he was committed to Brandon Training School (BTS), at the time the state's single institution for people with mental retardation. During his ten-year confinement at BTS, Larry was diagnosed in turn as mentally retarded, schizophrenic, clinically insane, and autistic. From Brandon he was transferred to the Vermont Psychiatric Hospital at Waterbury. However, at the insistence of his sister he was soon taken out and placed in a residential program for the developmentally disabled. Bissonnette has always manifested an irrepressible creativity. He was drawing prolifically at age five. At BTS he often jimmied his way into the locked workshop to draw, paint and build into the night. Larry now lives at home with his family and continues to work in his studio and at GRACE's weekly workshops with the Howard Center in Burlington, Vermont. Larry's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum de la Art Brut, Lausanne Switzerland. Larry was the subject of a 2005 documentary film My Classic Life As an Artist - A Portrait of Larry Bissonnette produced by The Syracuse University film department.  Goaline Stance of Larry's Signature Obliterates Ordered Land of Slated Houses Bissonnette_06.jpg |
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