Art is an expansive medium used to express one’s innermost emotions and sentiments. Whether you’re making art or consuming it ...

This year’s auction kicks off on Sat., Feb. 10, and the following day presents a new opportunity for folk art collectors: “The African American Experience Collection.” Pulled from the ...

University of Alabama Press: Tuscaloosa, 1987. The story of patchwork quilts created by African Americans and sold through a cooperative in Wilson County, Alabama. Ferris, William. Afro-American Folk ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

The African American Museum of Dallas features one of the largest collections of African American folk art in the U.S. The museum displays African art, Black renaissance paintings, decorative arts ...

In this lesson, students research the face jug, a 19th century art form that formed a bridge between African American freedmen ... ancestry or as a decorative folk art using the original methods.

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...