From history’s greatest to new prodigies, these seven Black female artists not only enrich the art world with their unique ...

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 ...

Many of the instruments in the Smithsonian collections associated with African American musicians were owned by someone famous and have that person's name associated with them: Louis Armstrong's ...

Three photographers are exhibiting work that confronts the way African-Americans are often perceived in art, the workplace, and through their physical appearance. Alanna Airitam / Endia Beal ...

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...

African-American folk artist Winfred Rembert takes readers on a guided tour of his childhood and coming-of-age at the bloom of the Civil Rights movement. Brilliantly composed tooled leather paintings ...

A 16mm documentary based on fieldwork that William Ferris conducted with African American folk artists throughout Mississippi Footage includes Richard Foster at the dog trot house he grew up in ...

Apr. 27—NORWICH — A 6-inch-thick Norwich Police Department binder contains seven years of investigative work into the mysterious deaths of posthumously famous African American folk artist ...

The African American Museum of Dallas features one of the largest collections of African American folk art in the U.S. The museum displays African art, Black renaissance paintings, decorative arts ...