At 91 years old, Minnie Adkins continues to dedicate herself to her craft, wood carving six hours a day, five days a week.
Appraisal: 1890 Folk Art Seated Figure Wood Carving, from Salt Lake City Hour 3. In Salt Lake City Hour 3, Karen M. Keane appraises an 1890 folk art seated figure wood carving. Funding for ANTIQUES ...
The new exhibition Elijah Pierce: An American Journey at the Canton Museum of Art (CMA) celebrates the artwork of one of the most important self-taught, American folk artists of the 20th century: ...
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As the summer begins to give way to a new school year, the Kentucky Folk Art Center in Morehead has an exhibit that could be a fun excursion for the family. “Minnie Adkins: Story Carvings,” featuring ...
P.J. Hornberger's Folk Art Gallery looks like a dollhouse beside U.S. 290 in Carmine. Inside the little purple building she displays an assortment of her eclectic carvings and paintings. It's really ...
Locally, the most popular cane carver, “Schtockschnitzler Simmons” (1885-1910) from the Kutztown, Moselem, Hamburg area was a late German born immigrant who bartered his carved bird handle canes from ...
Folk artist Isaac Smith typically woke up at his Oak Cliff home around 7 a.m. and drank a beer before picking up an ax and a knife to spend the rest of his day carving animals out of wood. Smith, 72, ...
A young black man in Jim Crow-era Mississippi is riding a mule to a baseball game in a nearby town. Unfortunately, he bears a passing resemblance to an escaped murderer being pursued by the police and ...