The American Folk Art Museum looked more plucked than plucky at the close of 2011. The museum owns the most extensive collection of American folk art anywhere, along with a large selection of folk art ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Steve Stetzler, the owner and chef at the Deitsch Eck Restaurant in the historic Lenhartsville Hotel, in Lenhartsville, recently began a project to restore the Pennsylvania Dutch folk art paintings of ...

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 ...

Hang Trong folk prints are the traditional trait of an ancient capital. The seemingly forgotten technique has been awakened recently. Hand-painted or wood-engraved paintings are on display at a wet ...