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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

Lines in the sand tell a story at the Museum of International Folk Art. The exhibit “Sandroing: Tracing Kastom in Vanuatu” was created by Edgar Hinge, a sand drawing artist from Port Vila, Vanuatu.

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 ...

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 Kentucky Folk Art Center (KFAC) is one of Kentucky's unique places. It houses a permanent collection of nearly 1,400 pieces of regional folk art, which portrays the culture and heritage of ...

Rendering of Crow Museum of Asian Art at the O’Donnell Athenæum at UT Dallas, view of arrival and drop off from northwest. Image Courtesy of Morphosis Architects This new cultural district, located at ...