Tufted Rugs, installation view at the Pandemic Folk Art Museum (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — At the Pandemic Folk Art Museum, the bright gallery is filled with colorful, ...
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, ...
Tina Cox had her eyes fixed on one goal when she left her 25-year corporate career at a big-four accounting firm to become executive director of Paradise Garden Foundation in 2018: to reopen Howard ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — Growing up in Cambridge in the 1980s, Emelie Gevalt would make semi-regular excursions with her family to Longfellow House, the stately Georgian manor at 105 Brattle St. The National ...
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 ...
On a quiet street near Bayou Teche in New Iberia, where live oaks cast long shadows, Becky and Wyatt Collins’ yard gives away their secret. A gigantic wire rabbit sits on a bench reading a book. A two ...