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 ...

November 5, 2025 Made from natural sources and transformed through a range of artisanal and industrial processes, quilts carry deep geographical and cultural histories. Artist and scholar Lauren ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X After six years in storage, four local late 19th century farmhouse murals depicting rural scenes ...

Ask anyone about their favorite American folk artist and you’ll probably get a blank stare. Since the artists were often minimally trained (if at all), their histories are tricky to trace. Folk art is ...

John Brewster Jr., portraits of Benjamin Titcomb and Anne Pearson Titcomb (1798), oil on canvas in the original molded and beaded giltwood frames, 30x25 in. (each) (image courtesy Skinner, Inc. and ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- What does "home" mean? Different things to all of us, of course. A place of love, for some. One fraught with trouble, for others. An elusive concept for too many. "Home isn't always a ...

You’d be forgiven for not knowing the name Madalena Santos Reinbolt (1919–1976). Her current exhibition at New York’s American Folk Art Museum is the self-taught Afro-Brazilian artist’s first museum ...