Mary Shelley

"Carved and painted folk art pictures of diners, farms and American themes".

Stephen Warde Anderson

I was born on July 16, 1953 in Rockford, Illinois, where I have lived all but a few years of my life in the home of my parents. I briefly attended the University of Chicago and spent four years in the U.S. Navy as a quartermaster second-class on a frigate homeported in Athens, Greece. During my stint with the Navy I traveled throughout much of Europe and the Caribbean. I took up art when I was past thirty and am entirely self-taught.

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum is moving to a new facility and the folk art collection will move to a new home.

American Folk Art Museum

Located in New York City

American Visionary Museum

The American Visionary Art Museum is located in a historic location in downtown Baltimore at the base of Federal Hill.

Collection of Art Brut

Les auteurs d’Art Brut sont des marginaux réfractaires au dressage éducatif et au conditionnement culturel, retranchés dans une position d’esprit rebelle à toute norme et à toute valeur collective. Ils ne veulent rien recevoir de la culture et ils ne veulent rien lui donner. Ils n’aspirent pas à communiquer, en tout cas pas selon les procédures marchandes et publicitaires propres au système de diffusion de l’art.

Folk Art Society

The best place to learn about Folk Art in the United States

Grass Roots Art Center

"Grassroots art" is a term describing art made by people with no formal artistic training . . . (usually of retirement age)

Howard Finster

Legendary Folk Artist

Intuit

Intuit is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991. Our mission is to promote public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of intuitive and outsider art through a program of education and exhibition.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a not-for-profit organization established in 1967 for aesthetic and educational purposes. Its mission is to encourage and support innovative explorations in the arts and to foster an exchange between a national community of artists and a broad public that will help realize the power of the arts to inspire and transform our world.

Kentucky Folk Art Center

Located in the historic Union Grocery building in Morehead, the Kentucky Folk Art Center offers visitors one of the most important and unique cultural experiences to be found anywhere in Appalachia.

The Lynch Collection

The Lynch Collection is located in the Pearsall Building on the NC Wesleyan College Campus, 3400 N. Wesleyan Blvd., Rocky Mount, NC 27804, just minutes off I-95 and an hour's drive from Raleigh.

Mennello Museum

Holgar Cahill, the pioneering art historian, museum director, and curator viewed folk art as "the unconventional side of the American tradition in the fine arts." Not all scholars agree. Jean Lipman viewed folk art as "artistic efforts confined within time boundaries."

Norbert Kox

Contemporary religious painter Norbert Kox is one of America's most important Visionary artists. His self-described 'apocalyptic visual parables' utilize powerful symbolic metaphors aiming to shake modern man from his spiritual malaise and clear away centuries worth of mistranslations of the Bible." (Richard Metzger, Disinformation: The Interviews, p. 116).

Shelburne Museum

Electra Havemeyer Webb Located in Vermont's scenic Lake Champlain valley, Shelburne Museum is one of the nation's finest, most diverse, and unconventional museums of art and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds.