“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.

Jones’ eccentric animal sculptures carved with a chain saw graced U.S. 15/501 south of Chapel Hill, bringing him worldwide fame.

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 ...

Tufted Rugs, installation view at the Pandemic Folk Art Museum (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — At the Pandemic Folk Art Museum, the bright gallery is filled with colorful, ...

MOREHEAD, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Kentucky Folk Art Center is continuing to find ways to be innovative. The museum was established in the 1980s in Morehead. It is now housed in a unique building which ...

I stood not too long ago, agog at the spectacle of Howard Finster's artistic productions at Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia. It is rough, at turns melancholy and exuberant, colorful here, ...

The American Folk Art Museum in New York has received a new gift of works made by self-taught artists from the legendary collection of Audrey B. Heckler. The works will be exhibited at some point in ...

LINDON, Utah (KUTV) — A popular Utah artist has been turning his folk art paintings into puzzles — for decades. At Eric Dowdle’s Folk Art Studio in Lindon, you'll discover a captivating display of his ...

WHEN: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, July 11; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 12; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 13 WHERE: Santa Fe Railyard Park, market entrance located ...

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 ...

In Nashik district, the travelling museum has begun touring several schools under the Maratha Vidya Prasarak Samaj (MVP) in ...