Folk Art

Glimmering glass beads can be threaded onto thin wire and shaped into flowers a historical handicraft, rooted in Venice and its famous Murano glas...

This book is a mosaic or quilt of folk art around the world, from polychrome clay figures made in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla (Mexico) to the baske...

Bruce West's color photographs document the spiritual and creative work of a self-proclaimed preacher, artist, architect, the Reverend H. D. Dennis...

In the ponderosa pines of central Oregon, J. Chester Skip Armstrong creates breath-taking eagles and finely crafted animals. His choice of material...

Painted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore row house. Picturesque, practical, and quirky, window and d...

The Secret Middle Ages is a controversial and completely fresh view of the medieval world through its rare and amazing artefacts. Using the wealth ...

Unsophisticated art is the art of everyday life. During the 1940s Barbara Jones set about documenting this everyday art throughout Britain, visitin...

Believed to be one of the earliest textiles, felt has been made by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia for over 2,500 years and the craft still thr...

A celebration of female inventiveness and aesthetic sensibility, Shedding the Shackles explores womens craft enterprises, their artisanal excellenc...

The rightful place for an artist, his real world, is a pot of black ink. I believe it contains all the magic, all the forms, everything that human ...

A child survivor of the Holocaust, Trudie Strobel settled in California, raising a family and never discussing the horrors she witnessed. After her...

Each month of this twelve-month calendar features a different traditional Lakota virtue along with wisdom text, exquisite artwork, and the Lakota n...

With its intricate and vibrant images, this 12-month calendar is a tribute to the living folk art tradition of crafting sugar skulls. Features incl...

MAINTENANT 12: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art serves up the controversial theme, WE ARE ALL A LIKE. With the rise in social media u...

Celebrate the charm of chickens with 10 embroidery patterns featuring adorable hens and chicks and the materials to make any two of the projects.St...

An exploration of the evolution of the Japanese Mingei (folk art) movement within the context of todays concerns  Originating in Japan in the 1920s...

In an abandoned storage unit in Philadelphia, a collector discovered more than 150 works on paper by a presumably self-taught artist. The works fal...