On Exhibit
Herald Times
All ornaments available for purchase by silent auction with proceeds donated to the art scholarship fund. Open daily; 812-988-6185. Center for Folk Traditions, 46 E. Gould St. Fall exhibit: “Ruralismo” Revisited: multimedia artifacts from ....
Elderhostel loses the 'elder' to attract boomers
Newsday
He was also taken with institutions in Scandinavia, called folk schools, where he saw older adults handing down traditions of folk art, music and dance to younger generations. He came home wondering why there wasn't a similar learning oppor...
Where Art and Faith Embrace in Gura Humorului, Romania
New York Times
These are the centuries-old Jewish cemeteries, whose weathered tombstones bear extraordinary carvings that meld folk motifs and religious iconography into evocative examples of faith expressed through art. I was in the Bucovina to carry out...
Rich with history, high in Transylvania
Boston Globe
There are also art galleries and shops selling folk crafts, such as fragile painted or beaded eggs, embroidered clothing and linen, figurines, carpets, blankets, pottery, wood carvings, and icons. On the street, women sell their own handcra...
There & Back
Carroll County Online
The cultural center focuses around the National Hellenic Museum, where museum officials say visitors can see folk art and textile exhibits. Chicago’s Italian community is centered along Taylor Street on the city’s near West Side bordered by...
Maker of American Painted Furniture
Maine Antique Digest
I have been given permission by The Shelburne Museum, Yale University Museum, Historic Deerfield, The American Folk Art Museum, The Maine State Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Society for the Preservation of New England Anti...
Bought for a Song (Many, Actually)
New York Times
Lining the winding hallways, which are painted a rich red, are crosses from Mexico, carved wooden angels from Bogotá, Colombia, and folk-art-ish paintings of the No. 2 and 4 trains, bought for $50 each from a local artist named Louis Dogget...
Eat, shop, explore Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods
Newsday
where museum officials say visitors can see folk art and textile exhibits. The museum also boasts an oral history center that lets listeners wear headsets to hear Greek immigrants tell their stories. Each August the neighborhood hosts a Tas...
Day Trip
Baltimore Sun
When: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 15 What: The three-day festival celebrates and includes art, music, food, wine, games and more. Displays offer fine art to folk art, photographs, paintings and decorati...
Texas & Neighbors: festivals, fall foliage and walks
Dallas Morning News
The last week of peak fall foliage in southeastern Oklahoma is expected to coincide with the Beavers Bend Folk Festival & Craft Show, giving visitors a double dose of outdoor activities this week. Tree leaves in the area around Broken Bow, ...
Daskathia artistes seek fair deal
Hindu
BERHAMPUR: The ‘Daskathia’ artistes of Orissa on Sunday asked the State government to establish a Daskathia institute to save the unique folk art form. They made this demand during their State-level conference organised in the city. The ...
Telling Good Old from Bad Old
Herald & Review
... pieces from China, Armenia, Egypt and America, and they can all live happily in one room if they're of the same quality and character, for instance, if they're all primitive folk art, or all refined, precise and well-made. But a blend o...
Is it art? Is it craft? Does it matter?
Seattle Post Intelligencer
... artists in emerging fields/cross-disciplinary arts, performing arts, visual arts and traditional/folk arts. Still, Miller looks at Stichter's life-size ceramic sculptures and asks: "How is this not visual art?" He concludes: Our culture...
