Everhart Museum’s New Exhibition – For Every Season: Folk Art in Daily Life and Celebration
For Every Season presents a new interpretation of the Everhart Museum’s premiere Folk Art collection and features over 50 museum objects alongside those borrowed from the community. In this exclusive exhibit, the universal stages of life are examined...
Artist Statement on the new Raymond “Thunder-Sky” Documentary by Alfred Eaker
More often than not, Raymond envisioned a clown suit factory, a circus, or a highway named after his father being erected in place of the old. Raymond never visually depicted these imaginary replacements, but expressed them in text.
John Shaw – Folk Art in Enamel
John Shaw was a native New Yorker who earlier in his life worked in the field of commercial art and textile design. While he painted mostly on canvas and wood early on, those examples are few and far between. It is what this early style led to that was a breathtaking discovery...
The LaM Lille Museum-Reopens its Doors
The LaM Lille Museum-Brings Together Outsider Art, Modern Art, Contemporary Art Formerly known as the Greater Lille Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art and Art Brut the L.a.M-Lille Métropole Museum will be reopening its doors, after a four year renovation, to the public this September 25, 2010.
Howard Finster Exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center
Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster (curated by Glen C. Davies), was originally on view this spring in the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois. The exhibition is now open at the Chicago Cultural Center...
“Out of this World: A Centennial Celebration of Eugene von Bruenchenhein” at the American Visionary Art Museum
Born July 31, 1910, in Wisconsin, Eugene von Bruenchenhein probably learned to paint from his father, who was a sign painter, and his mother, who painted on canvas and wrote treatises on evolution and reincarnation. Unknown to all but a few family and friends, Eugene was a visionary artist who pursued his passion in his free time.
Chris E. Lewallen – Success Without Intention
02 September 2010
Gainesville, Georgia's, self-taught artist Chris Lewallwen is a paramedic by day and an artist by heart. His artwork spawned success he never intended and given him experiences he never dreamed possible.
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Willie Tarver 1932-2010
01 September 2010
Willie Tarver wanted to make art that would last forever. Some of Willie Tarver's cement work can be seen in downtown Atlanta where he created an installation in honor of the 1996 Olympic Games.
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Lake Norman Folk Art Festival set for October 2nd
01 September 2010
The second annual Lake Norman Folk Art Festival in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, presented by the Hickory Museum of Art, will take place at 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, October 2, at 4689 Giles Avenue. Admission and parking are free and open to the public.
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Alastair Bradley Martin and the Guennol Collection
28 August 2010
“The true collector, like the artist, is an impassioned creator.” - Alastair Bradley Martin
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Sheldon Museum of Art – Parallel Starts: Outsider Art Inside Collections
28 August 2010
The exhibition features works from Jean Dubuffet, Howard Finster, Albert York, John Kane, David Burlyuk, Jeffrey Randall, and Samuel Colwell Banker, among others...
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Folk Fest 2010!
17 August 2010
Folk Fest – billed as “The World’s Greatest Self-Taught Art Show and Sale” – will celebrate 17 years in Atlanta with a three-day show slated for Aug. 20-22 at the North Atlanta Trade Center in Norcross. Nearly 100 galleries and dealers will exhibit at the air conditioned, 85,000-square-foot venue. -Atlanta INTown
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Rev. Howard Finster finds a New Resting Place
13 August 2010
After spending the last nine years in the Silver Hill Baptist Church Cemetery in Chattooga County, Georgia, Howard Finster's body was unearthed and moved Saturday, August 7, 2010. “When his death occurred, back in 2001, they were just in kind of a hurry and they decided to bury him at Silver Hill," Silver Hill Baptist Church Pastor Dr. John Hayes said.
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American Folk Art Museum – Facing Their Debt Troubles
12 August 2010
“It’s a process, so I can’t tell you exactly what the outcome of it will be, but I think that everybody is operating very conscientiously and in good faith to find a solution to these challenges,” said Stephen Corelli, the museum’s incoming board president.-New York Times
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