Stephanie Parr dabs red underglaze onto her ceramic ornament, a palm-sized creature with bulging eyes. “It’s a demented elf,” ...

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, ...

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Michael J. Bramwell, an artist, scholar, and curator, will join the Museum of Fine Arts as the Joyce Linde Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art, a newly created position within the museum’s Art of the ...

It isn’t easy to recognize this wood piece with a deeply carved design. Unlike today’s familiar decorating stamping tools, it wasn’t pressed into ink and used to print on fabric or paper; it is a ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — A former Mills Street print shop in Kalamazoo will reopen its doors this summer as the new official home of the Urban Folk Art Exploratory. Founded in 2005 by Executive Director Remi ...

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 ...

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 ...

India is a diverse land. No two states are alike, no two food choices are the same, and no two regions have the same kind of art. Unlike a lot of other nations, India gives a new form of art after ...