Baua Devi has been practicing the Mithila art form for almost 60 years. She got married at the age of 12, and was encouraged ...

“He was collecting vernacular and designing modern,” explains curator Monica Obniski. An amateur collector might own a handful of pieces, a hobbyist a few dozen, and a serious collector a few hundred.

The hardest thing about filling a room with “folk art” is that no one knows exactly what folk art is. “It’s a term to be struggled with,” says Meredith Affleck, manager of the upcoming exhibition at ...

What do queer Appalachians and a serpent-handling preacher have in common? More than you might think. “American culture ...

Just a few years ago, Audrey B. Heckler’s over 500-piece collection of outsider art had rarely been seen in public. Now, nearly the entirety of her holdings—one of the country’s most important and ...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, craftsmen from many different regions of the country used a peculiar form of sculpture — the whittled walking stick — to communicate social signals, convey ...

The Craft & Folk Art Museum is losing an ampersand — and gaining a new name: The Wilshire Boulevard museum will announce Tuesday that it will go by Craft Contemporary, effective immediately. The new ...

Still mourning the American Folk Art Museum, a critic says, “We, and MoMA, don’t need any more Rauschenbergs, or Richters.” Bring on the outsider artists. By Holland Cotter What I’ll miss during the ...

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 ...