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 ...

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

Clementine Hunter is a self-taught artist whose work captures the life and culture of African American communities in the rural South. Known for her vibrant, folk-art style, Hunter painted scenes ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...