A new exhibition at the David Owsley Museum of Art features 25 outsider and folk art pieces donated by Ball State alumna Jan ...

"Jimmie Lee Sudduth has the same joy in each stroke that he had years ago," says Woodie Long of his friend and fellow painter. "That's the sign of a true folk artist." Brian Noyes "Kentuck shows us ...

Charlie Lockwood, director of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, discusses the museum's iconic ...

The American Folk Art Museum is celebrating its 60th anniversary with the acquisition of 40 works by artists including Horace Pippin, Bill Traylor, and Sister Gertrude Morgan, thanks to a gift from ...

Three exhibitions featuring sculpture, works on paper and folk art will open this fall at Brenau University’s galleries, with ...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, craftsmen from many different regions of the country used a peculiar form of sculpture — the whittled walking stick — to communicate social signals, convey ...

The Rochester Folk Art Guild will hold its annual fall open house and apple festival Oct. 10 and 11 at its Middlesex campus, ...

Folk art stirs a feeling of ancestral intimacy. It asks us to both imagine and remember. We’re reminded of this injunction as we step into The Ukrainian Museum where more than 100 works by iconic folk ...

What’s this place all about?The American Folk Art Museum is all about art and crafts by Americans who made incredible things without any formal artistic training. There's no snobbery here—the museum ...

I stood not too long ago, agog at the spectacle of Howard Finster's artistic productions at Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia. It is rough, at turns melancholy and exuberant, colorful here, ...

Atlanta is often referred to as the “new cultural capital of America” and that moniker is well deserved if our folk art scene is any attestation of it. Folk art is often defined as work created by ...