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- The Folk Art Society of America - A non-profit organization which advocates the discovery, study, documentation, preservation and exhibition of folk art, folk artists and folk art environments.
- Artisans Folk Art - Gallery of antique folk art, outsider art, antiques, Americana, tramp art, carvings, and paintings.
- Black Sheep Folk Art Gallery - A gallery of outsider and folk art from Canada and the United States
- Folk America - A gallery featuring 20th Century American folk, self-taught, outsider, and visionary art, with an emphasis on the south.
- Indigenous and Folk Arts - Articles and information relating to indigenous and folk arts.
- Georgia Folk Art - Dedicated to showcasing Georgia's Living Folk Artists. Specializes in yard art, metal sculpture, and other interesting objects.
- Ames Gallery, The - Specializes in contemporary self-taught, visionary, and outsider art; as well as Americana folk art, such as carved canes, tramp art, whimseys, and face jugs.
- Southern Arizona Folk Arts - Images and descriptions of folk art from southern Arizona including quilts, Easter eggs, cowboy and western, Chicano murals, low riders, and Mexican-American paperwork.
- Concrete Park Folk Art Sculptures - Photographs and information about a collection of concrete and glass folk art sculptures made by Fred Smith, a lumberjack and tavern operator in Wisconsin.
- From the Heart Folk Art - Toronto gallery promoting folk and fine art by maritime artists. Featuring whimsical, hand-carved, and painted sculptures of animals, fish, birds and people, paintings, and woodturned bowls.
Wikipedia Articles
- Folk art - Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions and traditional social values of various social groups. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training, nor a desire to emulate "fine art", and use established techniques and styles ...
- Florence Dibell Bartlett - Florence Dibell Bartlett (1881 - 1953) was the Chicagoan who founded the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the world's first international folk art museum, to express her belief that folk art is a bond between the people of the world. The museum opened to the public in 1953 and has gained national and international recognition as the home ...
- American Folk Art Museum - The American Folk Art Museum is the leading center for the study and enjoyment of American folk art, as well as the work of international self-taught artists. It is located at 45 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, in Midtown Manhattan (New York City, USA).
- Chinese folk art - Chinese Folk art are artistic forms inherited from a regional or ethnic scene in China. Usually there are some variation between provinces.
- Fraktur (Pennsylvania German folk art) - Fraktur is both a blackletter typeface, and a highly artistic and elaborate 18th century and 19th century illuminated folk art drawings created by the Pennsylvania Dutch (also known as Pennsylvania Deitsch or Pennsylvanian German). Most Fraktur were created between 1740 and 1860.