Part documentary series, part road movie, this show takes a coast-to-coast road trip to capture the vastness of American art and its creators. Captured on HD, this series chronicles our vibrant hosts and crew as they travel across the United States in a customized Winnebago in search of the country's great art treasures, roadside folk and 'outsider' art, spectacular architecture and the people making art today.   

Episode 1: Key West, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia
We're on the road again, spinning across the bridges and causeways from Key West to Miami. We meet hip young artist Hernan Bas, Pop artist and icon James Rosenquist, and famed collector Martin Margoles. That's before we dip our toe into the Art Deco waters of South Beach.

Then it's a cultural tour up the coast with car art in Daytona Beach, revolutionary urban planning in Savannah and then the stunning roller-coaster architecture of Five Flags, Atlanta. Our first rest stop is in Atlanta where we see the world’s largest oil painting.

Episode 2: Atlanta, Georgia to Houston, Texas.
Week two and we're surrounded by outsider art; John Milkovisch's extraordinary Beer Can House, W.C. Rice’s Cross Garden and Joseph Zoettel's homage to all things sacred, the Ave Maria Grotto.

There is room too this week for the famous quilts of Knee's Bend and pottery by "the mad potter of Biloxi", George Ohr, before we roll into New Orleans and witness how the arts are helping rebuild the city. Did we mention the Art Car Parade? That will be 250 "embellished, augmented and jaw-dropping vehicles" (including us) driving round Houston…

Episode 3: Houston, Texas to Dallas, Texas
The third leg of the journey, and the show is all about Texas: from the sublime Rothko Chapel in Houston to the exquisite beauty of the Byzantine Fresco Museum, from Dallas's Amon Carter Museum to the architectural jewel that is the Kimbell Art Museum.

There's also space for the alternative side of the state: San Antonio's Toilet Seat Museum, the Cathedral of Junk -- and how could we even dream of leaving Texas without visiting the tiny town of Art?

Episode 4: Dallas, Texas to Denver, Colorado
Where is the only skyscraper built by Frank Lloyd Wright? Answer: Bartlesville, Oklahoma. And there are contemporary architectural gems to look at as well: Stephen Holl’s spectacular new Bloch Building and Daniel Liebskind’s dramatic extension to the Denver Art Museum.

Sculpture features on a massive scale with the iconic Mount Rushmore, but there is also a supporting role from the Crazy Horse Memorial - all 22 stories of it. And of course there is folk art, at Samuel Dinsmoor's concrete Garden of Eden, and the glorious Skeleton Walking with Skeleton Dinosa.

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