The nine artists whose work now hangs in the halls of the fourth floor of Wolfson Children's Hospital have several things in common. None was trained as an artist. All taught themselves to paint. Most ...

SANTA FE — “Truths Be Told: Artists Activate Traditions” at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) made me reconsider what folk art really is. I’m used to curators making the case for why ...

ANDOVER — Milliner’s heads, butter prints, face jugs, cow creamers, ell rules, mangle boards, and wafer irons. What are all these things? That many, if not most, need explaining today is strange, ...

Ted Carey, "Boot Hill" (1982–85), oil on panel, 18 inches x 26 1/2 inches (all photos courtesy Guild Hall) Despite the never-ending information available on the internet, there are not many details ...

Closed for 25 years, the Paradise Garden landmark in Summerville reopens following a $600,000 renovation. Closed for 25 years, the World's Folk Art Church at Howard Finster's Paradise Garden in ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Aiming to bring traditional art closer to art lovers, IAcA Café will host an exhibition and talk show Folk Paintings through the Eyes of Young Artists on Sunday. VietNamNet Bridge ...

“Folk art” is the confusing name given to some things made by untrained artists. From the 1930s into the 1950s, antique collectors might have called these pieces “primitive” or named them for a region ...

Steve Meadows of Palestine, Ill., grew up in the tiny southern Illinois town of Willow Hill. The schools he attended did not teach art and the people he knew rarely if ever talked about it. “Until I ...

Hang Trong folk prints are the traditional trait of an ancient capital. The seemingly forgotten technique has been awakened recently. Hand-painted or wood-engraved paintings are on display at a wet ...