Mitchell makes what he calls gay folk art. The pots and pictures and tables and stools and mailboxes and fireplaces represent ...

Artists Activate Traditions” at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) made me reconsider what folk art really is. I’m used to curators making the case for why traditional artisans or “folk” ...

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, ...

ANDOVER — Milliner’s heads, butter prints, face jugs, cow creamers, ell rules, mangle boards, and wafer irons. What are all these things? That many, if not most, need explaining today is strange, ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — A former Mills Street print shop in Kalamazoo will reopen its doors this summer as the new official home of the Urban Folk Art Exploratory. Founded in 2005 by Executive Director Remi ...

Closed for 25 years, the Paradise Garden landmark in Summerville reopens following a $600,000 renovation. Closed for 25 years, the World's Folk Art Church at Howard Finster's Paradise Garden in ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Aiming to bring traditional art closer to art lovers, IAcA Café will host an exhibition and talk show Folk Paintings through the Eyes of Young Artists on Sunday. VietNamNet Bridge ...

The nine artists whose work now hangs in the halls of the fourth floor of Wolfson Children's Hospital have several things in common. None was trained as an artist. All taught themselves to paint. Most ...