Ongoing Folk Art Events

Please contact the venue directly to make sure it is possible to visit.

African Art from the Donation of James and Barbara Sellman

1500 N. Lombardy Street
Richmond , VA 23222
United States

American Folk Art - Permanent Collection

5798 State Highway 180
Cooperstown , NY 13326
United States

American Folk Pottery: Art and Tradition

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
325 Frances Street
Williamsburg , VA 23185
United States

Art Extraordinary

Argyle Street
Glasgow G3 8AG
United Kingdom

A permanent exhibition of works collected by Art Therapist Joyce Laing, OBE.

Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

1000 Fifth Avenue
New York , NY 10028
United States

Art of the Quilter

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
325 Frances Street
Williamsburg , VA 23185
United States

Carlota Rodriguez + Elena Rossi

551 23rd Street
Richmond , CA 94804
United States

This exhibition is ONLINE. You can view it HERE

Cuban Art Brut

Place Georges-Pompidou
Paris 75004
France

Discover Folk Art: Unique Visions by Southern Self-Taught Artists in the Hickory Museum Collection

243 3rd Avenue, NE
Hickory , NC 28601
United States

Earl Cunningham: Permanent Collection

900 East Princeton Street
Orlando , FL 32803
United States

Early American Faces, The Art of Edward Hicks

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
325 Frances Street
Williamsburg , VA 23185
United States

Felix "Fox" Harris Gallery

Art Museum of Southeast Texas
500 Main Street
Beaumont , TX 77701
United States

A major collection within the AMSET permanent collection is that of the larger than life totem-like sculptures of Felix “Fox” Harris.

For over 20 years, Harris crafted his sculptures of recycled materials and displayed them in his yard, creating a forest-like environment. Harris was inspired to make art by a vision from God telling him to set aside his old life and make a new one. God told him to “make somethin’ out of nothin,’” he said. Harris took this to mean that not only should he reform his ways, but that he should literally take found objects and give them new life. In time, Harris constructed a forest of totems, some as tall as 15 feet, made from scrap metal, old toys, street markers and other discarded objects.

These significant pieces of folk art were donated to AMSET after Harris’ death in the mid 1980s and have had a tumultuous history at the museum, through numerous installation locations, de-installations due to threats of inclement weather and subsequent long-term storage. Finally in August 2007, AMSET unveiled Somethin' Out of Nothin': The Works of Felix "Fox Hafoxcolor.jpgrris, a semi-permanent gallery and glorious new resting place for the Beaumont treasures.

Glenn Stark Folk Art Park

Main Street and Sherman Street
Kingman , KS 67068
United States

Glenn Stark was a grassroots artist who did fine wood carving and built larger sculptures using a metal framework and concrete. His work was displayed at his home in Kingman, Kansas until his death in 2014. The art has since been moved to other locations including this park in downtown Kingman where about 20 of his concrete sculptures have been moved.

Grand Procession: Contemporary Plains Indian Dolls from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

2301 North Central Avenue
Phoenix , AZ 85004
United States

Grandma Moses

75 Main Street
Bennington , VT 05201
United States

Bennington Museum holds the largest public collection in the world of paintings by Grandma Moses, the great 20th-century folk artist who painted scenes of rural life embodying a sense of an idyllic bygone America.

Highlights from the Historical Society of Early American Decoration

American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square
New York , NY 10023
United States

Highlights from the Permanent Collection

715 W. Main Street
Louisville , KY 40202
United States

KMAC relays the marriage of art and craft in the context of contemporary art. The Museum's permanent collection contains works created by notable twentieth century American folk artists as well as local contemporary artists. Some of the artists in KMAC’s collection hail from Eastern Kentucky and the surrounding region, and as a result they function as storytellers of Appalachian culture. Similarly, the contemporary works within the collection are often biographical and topical.

Horace Pippin: From War to Peace

2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia , PA 19131
United States

Howard Finster's Paradise Garden

200 North Lewis Street
Summerville , GA
United States

Paradise Garden is open to visitors, Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00 a,m,-5:00 p.m.

Howard Finster: Paradise Garden

1280 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta , GA 30309
United States

Latin American Folk Art

140 North Main Avenue
Tucson , AZ 85701
United States

Latin American Popular Art

200 West Jones Avenue
San Antonio , TX 78215
United States

Lloyd’s Treasure Chest: Folk Art in Focus

Camino Lego Box 2087
Santa Fe , NM 87504
United States

Maud Lewis

1723 Hollis Street
Halifax , NS
Canada

Multiple Visions

Camino Lego Box 2087
Santa Fe , NM 87504
United States

Nellie Mae Rowe: At Night Things Come to Me

1280 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta , GA 30309
United States

Our Universe: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World and Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories

4th Street and Independence Plaza
Washington , DC
United States
Sawada, Zonder titel, 2006-2010, Collection Dolhuys

Outsider Art Museum

Amstel 51
Amsterdam
Netherlands

San Ildefonso Pottery: 1600 - 1930

710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe , NM 87504
United States

Selections from the Collection

Longwood University
Upchurch University Center
Farmville , VA
United States

Selections from the Oppenhimer Collection

129 North Main Street
Farmville , VA 23901
United States

Smithsonian American Folk Art Permanent Collection

8th and F Streets, N.W.
Washington , DC 20004
United States

Southern Contemporary Folk Art Open Storage

243 3rd Avenue, NE
Hickory , NC 28601
United States

The entire third floor of the Museum is reserved for Southern Contemporary Folk Art. As part of this dedication to folk art, the Donelly and Lail Galleries house works in an open storage format. Works in these galleries change regularly.

Sterling Strauser Gallery Collection

200 Prospect Ave. East Stroudsburg University
East Stroudsburg , PA 18301
United States

This new space features the works of the late acclaimed, self-taught artist Sterling Strauser who lived and painted in East Stroudsburg from 1928 to 1995.

Stitched in Time

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
325 Frances Street
Williamsburg , VA 23185
United States

The Art of Thornton Dial: The Barbara and James Sellman Collection

1500 N. Lombardy Street
Richmond , VA 23222
United States

The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery

710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe , NM 87504
United States

The Delaware Folk Art Collection

1914 West Park Drive, Alapocas State Park
Wilmington , DE 19803
United States

The Orange Show

2402 Munger Street
Houston , TX 77023
United States

The Paintings of Eddy Mumma

302 NE 6th Avenue
Gainesville , FL 32601
United States

Theora Hambleet Collection

University Avenue and 5th St.
Oxford , MS 38655
United States

Theora Hamblett, a lifelong resident of Lafayette County, didn’t begin her career as an artist until the latter part of her life.

Born in 1895 in Paris, Mississippi, Hamblett grew up on a chicken farm, which became the subject of many of her paintings. During the early decades of the twentieth century, she taught school, but by the 1930s, she left to care for her ill mother.

After the passing of her mother, Hamblett moved to Oxford, where she bought a 12-room house on Van Buren Avenue. She rented rooms to University of Mississippi students and sewed to make money.

Thornton Dial Sr.: Translator of Ideas [Donations by Barbara and James Sellman.]

1500 N. Lombardy Street
Richmond , VA 23222
United States

Three Centuries of American Folk Portraits; Inspiration and Ingenuity: American Stoneware; We See America; Down on the Farm and Cross Rhythms: Folk Musical Instruments

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
325 Frances Street
Williamsburg , VA 23185
United States

Working in the Spirit: The Visionary Art & Life of Elder Anderson Johnson

2410 Wickham Avenue
Newport News , VA 23607
United States

Utilizing over 600 pieces of visual art and architectural salvage, the gallery at Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center recreates vignettes from the Faith Mission. The theater offers an orientation film "Bound for the Promised Land' which incorporates footage of Johnson at praise in sermon and song. You are invited to enter the world of Anderson Johnson --his Zion-- to view the man and his work on his own terms.