See About archive blog posts. Weaving a link between American history and the African folk art of basket making is the focus of a trio of exhibits at UCLA’s Fowler Museum. The largest of the ...

Recognizing the influence that African art has on folk art, the Finleys began adding contemporary folk art from New Orleans, Mrs. Finley’s hometown. Together, the African objects and the folk art ...

The Folk Art Museum exhibition is largely based on the David Arment Southern African Collection, which David Arment, an art consultant and collector based in Santa Fe, started building with his ...

“Weaving Meanings” spins stories of fighting clubs, apartheid and the dazzling artworks wire weavers create today. Open at Santa Fe’s Museum of International Folk Art, this exhibition of a ...

American Folk Art Museum The art objects were drawn from ... was a founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. With its sense of shared purpose and mutual recognition, this work is ...

Erich Bödeker was a German sculptor associated with the so-called naïve art. His brightly painting wooden sculptures were evocative of African folk art and often depicted animals and nude figures.

At the Mori Art Museum, Theaster Gates' “Afro-Mingei” blends African American culture with Japanese folk-art traditions. At the newly opened Space Un — helmed by Edna Dumas, of the Hermes-af ...

Muziwandile Sibongiseni Gigaba, who goes by Muzi Gigaba, doesn’t remember telephone wire art being considered as ... says via WhatsApp video from South Africa. “So, they’d commission these ...