Elgin plans to commission folk artist Eric Dowdle to create an art piece depicting the city that will be part of a national project being done in conjunction with America’s 250th anniversary in ...

Robert MacLean, Weymouth Public Libraries director said the anti-slavery painting unveiling “is perfect timing" because it coincides with Weymouth's 400th-anniversary and Black History Month.

The artworks, stolen from an old town hall in the small coastal town of Medemblik in north Holland and valued at €100,000, have been returned to art detective Arthur Brand nearly 40 miles away ...

RIGHT: Jerry’s folk paintings, which sell for thousands of dollars each, are displayed for sale. View more of Anthony Zilis’ photos from his visit to Jerry Winters’ art gallery in Arthur at ...

There’s an old etymological folk tale that claims the phrase painting the town red — meaning “to have a boisterously (or even violently) good time”—alludes to an actual event from the ...

Joshua Boucher [email protected] For most of December, Lee can be seen in a full Santa Claus getup as he sells the folk art paintings that have made him a celebrity around Columbia.

GLADE SPRING, Va. — Artist Nancy Johnson uses her colorful, folk-art paintings to share her experiences growing up African-American in Southwest Virginia in the 1930s.

Maureen Pouder, a Brookhaven Town art teacher, enlisted her students and other local artists to make paintings of sunflowers to show support for Ukraine. About 50 artists responded.

"It's small, but there's just so much going on in this town." During the farm crisis of the 1980s, the Milan Village Art School opened as a way to create teaching jobs for struggling artists.