The passion for outsider, naïve, primitive, folk, and self-taught art—none of the traditional adjectives really captures its character—is one of the oldest romances in modern culture. For a ...

“Fraktur Writings and Folk Art Drawings of the Schwenkfelder Library Collection” by Dennis A. Moyer, Pennsylvania German Society, $65, 320 pp. Although Pennsylvania German fraktur is a folk art with ...

As executive director of the Monroe County Historical Association in Stroudsburg, Candace McGreevy is particularly proud of the museum’s fraktur collection. “We value them so much that normally we ...

Folk artist Ren Gengshun makes an engraving with electric soldering iron in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province, Dec 9,2014. Ren has been practicing pyrography for 30 years with heated iron on ...

Visual artist and associate teaching professor of art in Rutgers University–Camden’s Department of Visual, Media, and Performing Arts, Stass Shpanin ...

Art can inspire, inform, enlighten, provoke and comfort. And, sometimes, it can just be fun. Put an ongoing exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center solidly in that last category. Its title ...

The Manheim Historical Society will host its annual Christmas Folk Art Show featuring works by local and regional artists on Friday, Dec. 11, from 3 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 ...

Years ago Jim Murphy admired an antique bird tree carving by the 1800s Pennsylvania German folk artist Wilhelm Schimmel. There was just one catch. The whimsical carving was valued at $88,000. “I ...