People are still talking about the Moores of Ware, Mass. In their day–the early 1800s–Joseph Moore worked as a hatmaker in winter and in summer as an itinerant dentist. Joseph and his wife ...

Folk art rose to prominence in 1982 when the exhibit, "Black Folk Art in America: ... I put my hand on a painting of a red farmhouse with a border made of mud and didn't let go; it had to be mine.

Similar revelations abound in “Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North,” a vitally important, deeply moving show currently at the American Folk Art Museum ...

Mose Tolliver, a folk artist whose self-portraits and vivid images of nature and the female form done in house paint on plywood made him a leader of the modern-day "outsider art" movement, has died.

First published in 1997, Black Art: A Cultural History by art historian Richard J. Powell, a comprehensive survey of Black and African diasporan visual culture in the 20th century, has since been ...

Folk artist Mose Tolliver, whose self-portraits and vivid images of nature and the female form, done in humble house paint, made him one of the leaders of the modern-day “outsider art ...

In The Works of Pheoris West, West focuses on these moral and spiritual issues in paintings that draw from sources ranging from Dagon cosmology to black folk art. The male figure in Black Magician ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Art is a form of expression. A Jefferson County folk artist is on a mission to use her art to tell ...

Most of Walker’s paintings focus on memories of a rural Assumption Parish childhood such as family gatherings and bayou baptisms, a style reminiscent of Black artists such as Clementine Hunter ...

Elgin plans to hire folk artist Eric Dowdle to do a painting of the city, which will be turned into a puzzle and part of America's 250th anniversary celebration.