Folk art plays a large role in rural Idaho’s history. It is a form of utilitarian art that is typically passed on and preserved through families over the generations, but as modernization and ...

SANTA FE — “Truths Be Told: 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 ...

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 ...

The International Folk Art Market has been honoring the handmade since 2004. The event grew out of Santa Fe’s spectacular International Folk Art Museum. ByChadd Scott, Contributor. Forbes contributors ...

Just a few years ago, Audrey B. Heckler’s over 500-piece collection of outsider art had rarely been seen in public. Now, nearly the entirety of her holdings—one of the country’s most important and ...

Travel the globe at the annual International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where artists and makers from around the world including Mexico, Peru, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Eswatini, and more ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. AS part of its mission to present folk art in a context “that can overcome ignorance and promote understanding,” ...

The Georgia Museum of Art wants to increase its offerings of folk art and work by other self-taught artists. And the museum, at the University of Georgia, is doing so piece by piece. Folk art “is ...

The hardest thing about filling a room with “folk art” is that no one knows exactly what folk art is. “It’s a term to be struggled with,” says Meredith Affleck, manager of the upcoming exhibition at ...

Over the course of history, every culture has devised its own answer to the riddles posed by the universe. While literature unquestionably is one of the strongest records of human history, folk art ...

Unpretentious work by 17 Pacific Northwest artists blurs the line between functionality and aesthetics in this exhibition at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design. Intergenerational and employing ...

Becky and Wyatt Collins don't just collect folk art — the live in it. The couple's collection of 2,000-plus pieces are exhibited throughout their home and in their yard. The collection includes pieces ...