The passion for outsider, naïve, primitive, folk, and self-taught art—none of the traditional adjectives really captures its character—is one of the oldest romances in modern culture. For a ...

Prolific Swiss itinerant artist Ferdinand Brader drew hundreds of area farms in the late 1800s. Seventeen of his pieces will ...

Folk artist Ren Gengshun makes an engraving with electric soldering iron in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province, Dec 9,2014. Ren has been practicing pyrography for 30 years with heated iron on ...

Art can inspire, inform, enlighten, provoke and comfort. And, sometimes, it can just be fun. Put an ongoing exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center solidly in that last category. Its title ...

During the 100 years between 1720 and 1820, well over 100,000 German-speaking immigrants entered Pennsylvania, most of them through the port of Philadelphia. In just the five years between 1749 and ...

The Manheim Historical Society will host its annual Christmas Folk Art Show featuring works by local and regional artists on Friday, Dec. 11, from 3 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 ...

Art lovers in the city are in for a treat as Gallery Sumukha is all set to host their latest exhibition. Titled, The Drawing Show - Part 1, this will be a group show of drawing by artists like A ...

Cobb Landmarks has secured funding to build a pocket park in Vinings honoring folk artist Nellie Mae Rowe. Rowe was known for creating colorful artwork using unconventional, everyday materials. The ...

Years ago Jim Murphy admired an antique bird tree carving by the 1800s Pennsylvania German folk artist Wilhelm Schimmel. There was just one catch. The whimsical carving was valued at $88,000. “I ...

Minhwa, meaning ’painting of the people‘ or ’popular painting‘ offers a vibrant window into traditional Korean life. These folk paintings portray the simple and unaffected daily lives of ordinary ...