Folk Art News

A Half Century of Folk Art: My Recollections

The Folk Art Society of America’s long-time President Ann Oppenheimer has published a book of her stories of collecting folk art, and discusses the lives and artwork of 45 artists and 11 others – collectors, gallerists and writers. The book has 170 pages and 185 photographs as well as a selected bibliography, list of exhibitions and acknowledgments.

Order the book HERE

The Folk Art Messenger wins awards – 2025

The Folk Art Messenger won the following awards at the Virginia Professional Communicators 2025 contest this spring:

Folk Art Messenger, #116 – First Place, Message from the Executive Director – First Place, and Second Place for the obituary for Benard Herman. Honorable Mention was awarded to the Book Review for “Way Out There” by Tom Patterson, and for FASA Facebook and Website. First Place winners will go on to the National Contest in September.

Special News About Membership & Folk Art Messenger

Special News:
Since 2025 will be the last year for the publication of the Folk Art Messenger, we are not accepting any more new memberships, nor the renewal of regular memberships.
Those who renew their memberships and those who order new memberships during the year 2025, will receive all three Folk Art Messengers that were published in 2025. Thanks so much!

The Folk Art Messenger wins awards – 2024

The Virginia Professional Communicators Contest awarded the Folk Art Messenger #113 First Place in 2024. This issue went on to the National Federation of Press Women Contest in 2024, where it won First Place in the nation for a magazine published in the category non-profit, which includes museums and university publications.

The obituary for artist Jim Harley won First Place in the Virginia contest and then went to the National contest where it won Third Place for obituaries. We appreciate the work of our designer John Hoar for his creative and inspiring designs that were mainly responsible for these amazing awards.