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.

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Pattachitra Art. It is folk painting of Odisha. Paintings are based on the Subhadra, ... They are manifested with rich outline, red, yellow, ochre, white and black colours. 3. Pithora Painting.

The painting has a pile of Distlefink feathers, with some blowing in the imaginary wind and a quilted pattern depicting land, the earth and black coal burning deep in the ground.

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.

Art of no common mold ** Easton folk artist creates handmade holiday figurines using casts from late 1800s to early 1900s. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook ...