The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

An Antiques Roadshow expert admitted he couldn't figure out how a piece of folk art was assembled in a bottle.

The American Folk Art Museum looked more plucked than plucky at the close of 2011. The museum owns the most extensive collection of American folk art anywhere, along with a large selection of folk art ...

A Norwegian-American man named Andreas Ueland ... States brought their cultural traditions with them, including a folk art technique called rosemaling. Rosemaling began in the mid-18th century ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

Subscribe to our RSS feed: The quilt, that cozy bed covering and wildly various art form, is being celebrated for a year by the American Folk Art Museum in a series of exhibitions. First up during ...

As everyone knows, China has a rich history and culture involving art. Chinese people first developed folk art between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago. Famous folk art such as paper tearing, shadow play ...

Made from papier-mâché, its title is “Battleship Kate,” and it’s a major piece of American folk art. But it’s not the sculpture that makes it important. It’s the tattoos. The sculpture ...

the Museum of International Folk Art neighbors the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. In between visits ...

intricate drawings on view at the American Folk Art Museum are anything but simple Completed more than a century ago, these artworks reveal the Impressionist's triumphs—and struggles The Chinese ...