Elgin is going to be part of a nationally known folk artist’s project honoring America’s 250th birthday. Eric Dowdle is planning a tour called “Land That I Love” in which he’ll visit different cities ...

The Dong Ho folk painting craft in Bac Ninh province has been inscribed on UNESCO‘s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in ...

Renowned folk artist Johnny Claypoole, a master painter of Pennsylvania German hex signs, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, a family spokesman confirmed.

Essie Treat Ward didn't look anything like a big city artist -- and it's likely a big city artist wouldn't have considered her paintings "art." Born in the Searcy County community of Nubbin Hill in ...

In an 1841 watercolor-and-ink drawing, John James Trumbull Arnold, an itinerant artist who roamed Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania in pursuit of commissions, portrayed himself with a quill in his ...

Artists Activate Traditions” at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) made me reconsider what folk art really is. I’m used to curators making the case for why traditional artisans or “folk” ...

Pieper Bloomquist’s “Silver Linings” artwork will be part of the Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art exhibit at the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Scandinavia House in Manhattan Pieper ...

“I don’t think I’ve ever done an interview while sitting on a bucket,” Kyle Brooks, also known as the artist BlackCatTips, muses while sitting on a blue plastic painter’s bucket. It’s a sunny ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A free program is underway in Luzerne County. The free classes teach kids how to paint Indian Folk Art. The program runs through early next week. Newswatch 16's Ryan Leckey ...