Artnet

The American Folk Art Museum Just Landed One of the Most Important Collections of Self-Taught Art in Private Hands—See It Here

Just a few years ago, Audrey B. Heckler’s over 500-piece collection of outsider art had rarely been seen in public. Now, nearly the entirety of her holdings—one of the country’s most important and ...
BroadwayWorld

American Folk Art Museum

October 23, 2024 Many gameboards on view in the exhibition Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture offer a glimpse into the social and economic changes of the late nineteenth and early ...
WTVM

Columbus Collective Museums brings first folk art museum to Columbus

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - A beloved collective museum adds their 8th museum in its collection of museums in Columbus on Friday. This unique museum is a collective of now 8 museums that collect artifacts ...
Artnet

‘The First Time I Saw the Archives I Gasped’: How the American Folk Art Museum Acquired the Vast Holdings of a Shuttered Arts Charity

“It’s probably one of the most important acquisitions of an archive in our history, aside from our Henry Darger collection,” Valérie Rousseau, the museum’s senior curator, told Artnet News. “My ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Folk art, Indian art museums open joint pop-up gift shop

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The governor’s order for New Mexico museums to close as COVID-19 surges to record levels prompted the Museum of ...
The Boston Globe

MFA hires curator of folk art, a first for the museum

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 ...
Yahoo

Folk Art Museum to opens new exhibition of South African telephone wire art

Nov. 15—Muziwandile Sibongiseni Gigaba, who goes by Muzi Gigaba, doesn't remember telephone wire art being considered as art when he was growing up in Kwa Zulu Natal. Nor was it prominent. Unlike ...

Creative Clay’s giant folk art festival will celebrate 30 years in St. Petersburg

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

Folk Art Museum offers donors naming rights to CEO’s title

A visitor examines exhibits in the permanent collection of the American Folk Art Museum in January 2022, in New York City. On Tuesday, June 28, 2022, the museum plans to announce its largest and most ...
Forbes

American Folk Art Museum Celebrates Sixty Years Of Promoting Self-Taught And Underrepresented Artists

(L to R) Sam Doyle (1906 – 1985) 'Rocking Mary' (double - sided) St. Helena Island, South Carolina, United States (circa 1983) enamel house paint on corrugated roofing tin, 52 × 26 × 1 /2 in.; Gift of ...
PBS

"Material Witness" at the American Folk Art Museum

A visit to AFAM for "Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work." A visit to the American Folk Art Museum for "Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work," which explores how ...