Lisa Molendini led a Dutch hex sign painting workshop on Tuesday at Alternative Alchemist, Hazle Twp. The Pennsylvania Dutch tradition of creating colorful round hex signs to adorn their barns and ...

A live hex sign painting was a new addition to this year’s Kutztown Folk Festival. Standing on a ladder 12 feet in the air, hex sign painter Patrick Donmoyer, Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage ...

Kathy Dennett was searching for an inspired birthday gift when she decided to draw on an idea from her birthplace in Pennsylvania: She painted a variation on a hex sign, those forms of American art ...

KUTZTOWN, Pa. - For one local artist, creating art is not just a job but an adventure he shares with people every year at the Kutztown Folk Festival. "I paint Hex signs and I paint barn stars," said ...

Among the highlights of this year’s 64th Annual PA Dutch Folk festival was an academic study done by Patrick Donmoyer, a young yet long established historian of our PA Dutch/German folk culture, who ...

Perhaps nothing symbolizes Pennsylvania Dutch culture more than the hex sign. Some believe hex signs were first added to barns as a kind of painted prayer, usually for blessings and as protection from ...

Many barns in Pennsylvania are decorated with barn stars or hex signs, but not many people know their true origin and meaning. Why were these signs painted on barns in the first place? Patrick ...

It was in her late 20s when Rachel Yoder realized she didn’t know much about her heritage. She yearned to feel connected to her roots, and for Yoder, art was a natural way to do so. “It was my ...

If you're lucky enough to have visited some parts of Pennsylvania Dutch country, you'll be familiar with what historians call "hex signs." These are large, often colorful, usually geometrical, and ...

MACUNGIE, Pa. (AP) — Eric Claypoole was up on the ladder again the other day, painting yet another barn with those unmistakable charms of Pennsylvania Dutch country: Hex signs. The Lenhartsville ...