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 ...

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 ...

Contemporary Folk Art showcases self-taught artists of the past 40 years. Many have been unknown to the public until the past decade and have often worked in isolation or in small communities around ...

What comes to mind when you think of folk art? Maybe "country," or "old" or "unusual." Folk art can be from the past or the present. It's not taught in universities. As with most artists, the work ...

So you are responsible for clearing out your great-aunt's house and putting it on the market. It is a daunting task and you have no idea what is in the attic, the shed, the basement. But don't be too ...

Folk art stirs a feeling of ancestral intimacy. It asks us to both imagine and remember. We’re reminded of this injunction as we step into The Ukrainian Museum where more than 100 works by iconic folk ...

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ARE WORKING ALL AROUND US. WE FOUND SOME UNIQUE ARTISTS AT WORK. APART FROM MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS ARE THE WORKING FOLK ARTISTS OF TODAY. FROM HAND-PAINTED CHOCO -- CHALK TO THE ...

Westbury Arts held the opening reception for Joan Kim Suzuki’s “The Gift of Remembrance: Modern Korean Folk Art Exhibition” on May 5, which is celebrated as Children’s Day in South Korea and Japan.

Credit the Pacific Northwest's music scene with inspiring the name of Washington State University's new exhibition, Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest. "When I found out that ...

The International Folk Art Market has been honoring the handmade since 2004. The event grew out of Santa Fe’s spectacular International Folk Art Museum. ByChadd Scott, Contributor. Forbes contributors ...