Folk Art in America. Folk art is a foundational element of U.S. culture, celebrating and reflecting the lives and efforts of ...

The story behind this intriguing 19th-century folk art oil painting of African Americans literally dancing for eels. Carole, the owner of the "Dancing for Eels" painting, told appraiser Nancyt ...

The Museum of Eastern Shore Culture, in the heart of Salisbury, has been highlighting the heritage of communities on Delmarva ...

Lines in the sand tell a story at the Museum of International Folk Art. The exhibit “Sandroing: Tracing Kastom in Vanuatu” was created by Edgar Hinge, a sand drawing artist from Port Vila, Vanuatu.

At 91 years old, Minnie Adkins continues to dedicate herself to her craft, wood carving six hours a day, five days a week.

Patrycja Wójcik is inspired by fantasy worlds and and Slavic fairy tales.

The passion for outsider, naïve, primitive, folk, and self-taught art—none of the traditional adjectives really captures its character—is one of the oldest romances in modern culture. For a ...

An 1851 ink-and-watercolor gift drawing titled A Type of Mother Hannah’s Pocket Handkerchief by Polly Jane Reed, a Shaker in New Lebanon, New York. Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village, ...

Last year, when I was writing my dissertation on the history of Ukrainian folk, my research found a repeated pattern: Despite long histories of suppression, erasure, and destruction, Ukrainian people ...

Gowthama Education and Cultural Seva Trust, Mysuru, has organised free Folk Art Forms and Theatre Training Camp for those ...