“Dutch’ folk art to get a close look ** Beauty and meaning of Fraktur and hex signs will be spotlighted in expert’s Allentown talk.

Submitted Still the most authoritative folklorist about our Pennsylvania Dutch folk culture, Dr. Don Yoder stands alongside a selection of hex signs exhibited at the 2013 Kutztown Folk Festival by ...

Dr. Alfred L. Shoemaker, celebrated authority on Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs, noted these (hex signs) folk art symbols were found locally on Christian made fraktur birth and baptismal certificates… ...

Now, much of Yoder’s art is Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, with hex signs and fraktur being some of her specialties. Yoder’s path to her current art career certainly wasn’t linear, but each ...

A barn with hex signs on the Hex Barn Art Tour in Berks County, Pa. Circular “hex signs” are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art commonly found painted on barns in Berks County.

Part 1 In studying early American folk art, there is no shortage of folk art documents and designs that express pioneer immigrants’ gratitude for reaching America at a time when many individu… ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Dutch influence on the Lehigh Valley shines through in any number of ways: the food, the festivals, the language. And at the culture's very soul are hex signs ...

Donmoyer got hooked on barn signs while pursuing an art degree at Kutztown. “I spent four months driving around for 10 or 12 hours a day,” he told me. He documented 425 Berks County barns with ...

The spring exhibit at Franklin and Marshall College’s Phillips Museum of Art combines 18th- and 19th-century folk art with artificial intelligence technology to create new historical narrative ...

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 confirme… ...

The Phillies’ Triple-A affiliate will be paying tribute to the Pennsylvania Dutch folk art tradition of the hex sign, circular symbols hung or painted on buildings like homes or businesses to ...