COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - The first ever folk art museum in Columbus is now open at the Columbus Collective Museums. The Folk Art Junction Museum held its grand opening Friday, March 15. The gallery is a ...

DAWSONVILLE, Ga. - Pablo Picasso once said, "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." And if that’s true, there’s zero chance a unique gallery in North Georgia will every be dusty. We ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection of folk and self-taught art represents the powerful vision of America’s untrained and vernacular artists. Represented in the museum’s collection are ...

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, ...

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN – A new, permanent gallery opened Saturday in Schuylkill Haven, promising to “re-brand” what people may think of as folk art. About 50 well-wishers joined for the ribbon-cutting for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stephanie Parr dabs red underglaze onto her ceramic ornament, a palm-sized creature with bulging eyes. “It’s a demented elf,” said Parr, a 37-year-old artist at Creative Clay. “I get so happy when I ...

‘Fork in the Road’ by Butch Anthony on display in Sanford as part of ‘Southern Gothic’ Credit: Photo courtesy Jeanine Taylor Folk Art Jeanine Taylor’s Sanford gallery has been a shrine to Southern ...

“Tank Head” by buZ blurr, 2000, mixed media. Credit: courtesy UA Little Rock Windgate Center of Art + Design What defines a piece of art as “outsider” or “folk” can be pretty nebulous. Grounds for ...