Matinicus folk artist David Sears — carver, painter and multimedia artist — has been beset by the elements and a ferry in ...

IFAM hosted 20,000 visitors who attended to shop and interact with about 150 artists and cooperatives from 57 countries.

Visionary folk artists, a subset in the wider field of outsider artists, still work and thrive, crafting vivid creations despite the deaths of some of the original greats, many of them, such as ...

Folk Art Jubilee Self-taught artists and their fans mingle each fall at Alabama’s up close and personal Kentuck Festival. Brian Noyes October 2003. Get our newsletter! Get ...

Politics. Folk Artists vs. the State Truckhenge, Bishop Castle, the Garden of Eden, and the anti-authoritarianism of outsider art. Reecy Pontiff | From the February 2016 issue ...

Folk art has long been celebrated by major artists. The work of the late Mose Tolliver and the late Jimmy Lee Sudduth has become part of permanent collection at the Smithsonian Institution.

However, it has become abundantly clear that the content creator is an artist, but, specifically, a folk artist, an individual creating art reflecting a particular culture, society, or community.

Like the best folk artists, Big Al has a crackerjack creation myth. He says the idea hit him one day in 1980, when he was shining shoes under a tree in Jackson Square: "Put it on slate." ...