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MARGARET DAY ALLEN is the author of the book When the Spirit Speaks: Self-Taught Art of the South. She and her husband, Robert, are members of the Folk Art Society of America’s National Advisory Board and are the 2020 co-presidents of the North Carolina Folk Art Society.

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The Inspired Art of Juanita Leonard [3]

John Culver: Traveling Through Time in Search of Paradise [4]

Arbon Lane’s Paintings and Poems Give Voice to His Life and Times [5]

C.M. Laster: Art Against the Odds [6]

KATHRYN ALLEN is the retired Senior Editor/Acquisitions of Southern Methodist University Press in Dallas, Tex., and a docent at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. She is a former docent at the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth, Tex.

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Jim Clark: Imagineering at Work [7]

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JAY ALTHOUSE, from Raleigh, N. C., is a composer and arranger of music for school performing groups. He and his wife, Sally, have collected folk art for almost 30 years.

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An Introduction to Seagrove Pottery [9]

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AARNE ANTON is the owner of American Primitive Gallery in Poloma, NY.

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Ionel Talpazan 1955-2015: Ionel Talpazan Comes to America with Visions of UFOs and Space [11]

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RAMONA AUSTIN is the former Curator of the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.

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Called by the Spirits: Four African American Self-Taught Artists and the Venice Bennale [13]

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KATHY JOHNSON BOWLES is the Executive Director of the Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA.

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Fertile Visions: Paintings by Marion Forgey Line [15]

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MARGARET BROWNE is former curator of exhibitions at The Bascom: A Center for the Arts in Highlands, N.C.

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Paradise Regained [17]

American Folk Art Museum Bounces Back with Uncommon Artists XX Symposium [18]

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LYNNE BROWNE, from Highlands, N.C., is a folk art collector.

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High's Folk Art Curator Organizes Sudduth Exhibition [20]

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The late GEORGINE CLARKE was visual arts program manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts. She went to France as part of the official Alabama delegation.

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Alabama Artists Celebrated in the South of France [22]

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WAYNE COX directs a public policy research organization. He also documents, collects and writes about self-taught art. He and his wife, Myrene, live in Miami, Florida, and Port Maria, Jamaica. They were recently named by Art and Antiques Magazine to its list of the Top 100 Art Collectors in the United States.

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Kevin Sampson: Memorial Maker [24]

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NED CROUCH is adjunct curator for special projects at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center, Clarksville, Tenn.

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Time Made Real: The Carvings of Tim Lewis [26]

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CAROL CROWN is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Memphis.

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Folk Art Scholarship Initiated [28]

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MARY ANNE DEANE is a retired pre-school teacher and a member of the Board of Directors of the Folk Art Society.

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Experiencing the International Folk Art Market [30]

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EMMANUELLE DELMAS-GLASS, from Guilford, Conn., works for the Yale Center of British Art.

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Painting the World With a Rainbow: Jessica Park [32]

Personal Recollections: Collecting Folk Art in Virginia [33]

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WILLIAM L. ELLIS is an associate professor of music at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt. He wrote the entry on Tripp for the Folk Art volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2013) and wrote about Edwin Jeffery Jr. for the Spring 2014 Folk Art Messenger.

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Billy Tripp's Mindfield [35]

Larry Bissonnette: Where Art and Autism Meet [36]

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JOHN FOSTER, is an artist, graphic designer and the curator of Accidental Mysteries [38], a blog and traveling exhibition of vernacular photography.

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Smudging the Edges: Folk Art Goes Commercial [39]

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MATT GEIGER is a journalist and author living in Wisconsin. His recent book, The Geiger Counter: Raised by Wolves & Other Stories, (HenschelHAUS/2016) is available now in stores and online. Visit his website: http://www.geigerbooks.com [41].

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THE CARNIVAL OF LIFE: Painter, Woodcarver and Musician Rick Harris [42]

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TONY GENGARELLY is Professor Emeritus of Art History and Museum Studies at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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In The Spirit of Tradition: Three Generations of Women Artists [44]

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BUD GOLDSTONE worked from 1955 to 1981 as an engineer for North American Aviation. From 1959 to his death in 2012, he volunteered as a conservation engineer for the preservation of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers, a National Historic Landmark in Los Angeles. In 1959, he ran a controlled scientific proof-load test and stress analysis on the Watts Towers that proved them to be stable and prevented the city from demolishing them. He wrote the proposal for a $1,900,000 grant from FEMA to repair earthquake damage to Watts Towers and also a $485,000 grant to repair earthquake damage to the California State Landmark, Bottle Village, in Simi Valley. With his wife, Arloa Paquin Goldstone, he was the author of The Los Angeles Watts Towers, published by the J. Paul Getty Foundation in 1997. You can see a full obituary in The Folk Art Messenger #82 [46].

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Las Pozas: A Conservator's Nightmare [47]

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JENNIFER HARDIN is the former chief curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fla.

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Folk Art on Display During Folk Art Society's Annual Conference [49]

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LARRY HARRIS is an architect, photographer and art collector who lives in Houston. His website: www.narrowlarry.com [51] is dedicated to the documentation of visionary folk art environments throughout the United States.

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April at the Critter Crossing [52]

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The late JEFFREY HAYES was professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Dr. Evermor's Forevertron [54]

Mona Boulware Webb: "The Queen of Willy Street" [55]

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BERNARD HERMAN is the George B. Tindall Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and Chair of the Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the editor of Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper, and many other books. His forthcoming book, Fever Within: the Art of Ronald Lockett, will be published in June. The concurrent exhibition will be on view at the American Folk Art Museum, June 21-September 18, 2016, then travel to the High Museum of Art and the Ackland Art Museum.

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Reflections on the Life and Art of Thornton Dial [57]

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JO FARB HERNANDEZ is Director and Professor Emerita of Thompson Art Gallery and Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at San Jose State University. She also serves as Director and Chief Curator of SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments).

Photo: Luisa Del Giudice

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Singular Spaces: Spanish Art Environments [59]

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The late FRANK HOLT was the former director of the Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando, FL.

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The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks [61]

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STEPHEN P. HUYLER, Ph.D., is an art historian, cultural anthropologist, photographer and author. His book, Daughters of India: Art and Identity (2008) was reviewed in The Folk Art Messenger, Winter 2008. [63]

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Reinventing Reality: The Art of Sonabai Rajawar [64]

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JANE M. JOEL is a free-lance writer in Richmond, Va.

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Vollis Simpson: The Don Quixote of East-Central North Carolina [66]

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RAY KASS is a nationally recognized artist and a professor emeritus of studio art at Virginia Tech. The founder and director of the Mountain Lake Workshop at Virginia Tech, he produced workshops for Howard Finster (1985), John Cage, Jiro Okura, Stephen Addiss, James De La Varga and Merce Cunningham, among others. He is the author many publications, including John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures (2009), The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete Watercolors (2011) and Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner Eye (1983). His future plans include a retrospective exhibition of the work of the Virginia artist Georgia Blizzard, with Lee Kogan as co-curator. He a founding board member of the Folk Art Society of America.

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Martin Johnson’s “ForInstance” [68]

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RANDALL LOTT, a software executive living in Tampa, Fla., collects folk art and is a member of the Folk Art Society’s National Advisory Board.

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Bernice Sims: Painter of Life as She Lives It [70]

Ruby Williams' Produce Stand and Art Gallery [71]

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MINHAZZ MAJUMDAR is a writer and designer engaged in the documentation and promotion of folk art and craft forms in India. For more than a decade, she has been working with artists and craft communities across India, presenting India’s finest traditional practitioners to audiences worldwide.

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The Inner Eye: The Art of Ganesh Jogi and Teju Ben [73]

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CAROL MILLSOM recently retired as professor of child development and education at New York University.

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History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift [75]

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JENNY MOORE is the former project manager for the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park Project in Wilson, N. C.

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Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs Are Moving and Not Just in the Wind! [77]

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WILLIAM OPPENHIMER is a retired obstetrician/gynecologist and is the Chief Financial Officer of the Folk Art Society of America.

ANN OPPENHIMER is the Executive Director of the Folk Art Society of America

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Rosenak Collection Acquired by the National Museum of American Art [79]

The Indelible Images of Winfred Rembert [80]

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WILLIAM OPPENHIMER is a retired obstetrician/gynecologist and a member of the FASA Board of Directors.

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Charlie Lucas and NALL [82]

Colonial Conservator Scott Nolley [83]

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ANN OPPENHIMER is the Executive Director of the Folk Art Society of America

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16 Years: A History of the Folk Art Society [85]

A Tribute to Howard Finster [86]

Anton Rajer 1952-2011 [87]

Fiddle Music Enlivens Symposium [88]

Herbert W. Hemphill Jr. Memorial Award [89]

Message from the Executive Director - 2017 [90]

Message from the Executive Director (Fall 2017) [91]

Message from the Interim Director (2015) [92]

Message From the President (2002) [93]

Message From the President (2003) [94]

Message from the President (2005) [95]

Message From the President (2009) [96]

Message From the President (2011) [97]

Message from the President (2012) [98]

Message from the President (2013) [99]

Message from the President (2014) [100]

Message from the President (2014) [101]

Message from the Interim Director [102]

Message from the Director 2016 [103]

Message from the Executive Director (2018) [104]

Message from the Executive Director (2019) [105]

Nek Chand's Rock Garden [106]

Obituary: Bernard Schatz (L-15) 1931-2015 [107]

Symposium in St. Louis [108]

The Paradise That No One Wants [109]

Three Singular Artists [110]

Trois Artistes Singuliers [111]

Cosmologies from the Tree of Life [112]

Introduction: Roger Cardinal 1940-2019 [113]

Message from the Executive Director 2020 [114]

Message from the Executive Director - Issue 100 [115]

Message from the Executive Director 2021 [116]

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JOAN PEARLMAN from New York City, has taught at N.Y.U., The New School and the American Folk Art Museum Institute. She recently participated in a two-person exhibition of her photographs in “Woods Hole Women of a Certain Age.”

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Afro-Cuban Painter Jose Montebravo [118]

British Folk Art at the Tate Britain [119]

Grupo Bayate: Folk Art in a Cuban Collective [120]

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The late TONY RAJER was an art conservator, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a member of the FASA's National Advisory Board.

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Philip Moore: The Spirit-Trained Visionary Artist from Guyana, South America [122]

Nek Chand's Story [123]

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LUIS “EL ESTUDIANTE” JOAQUIN RODRIGUEZ
is General Coordinator, Proyecto Bayate. He is a Naif painter who lives and works in Mella, Cuba.
photo by Ann Oppenhimer

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The Studio Workshop for Naïve Art, Bayate [125]

Estudio Taller Arte Naif, Bayate: A Space for Investigation, Education and Promotion [126]

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SCOTT ROTHSTEIN is an artist who lives in Santa Fe.

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Atelier Incurve [128]

From a Quiet Place: The Paper Sculptures of Kyoko Okubo [129]

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MICHAEL RYMER is a writer who lives in New York.

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The Dutch Artists of Herenplaats [131]

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THOMAS E. SCANLIN is a retired jewelry designer and owner of Studio Jewelers in Dahlonega, Ga.

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What Price Paradise? [133]

Drawn to Clay: The Pottery of Ed Gilliam [134]

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FRED SCRUTON is a professor of art in Northwestern Pennsylvania. He travels extensively throughout the U.S. to document ‘outsider’ and ‘visionary’ artists. His work can be seen at fredscruton.com [136].

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The Fabulous Henry Hall [137]

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JAMES SELLMAN is the President of the Folk Art Society of America. He and his wife Barbara have been traveling throughout the world collecting art for more than 35 years and have been members of the Folk Art Society of America for 22 years. They have donated more than 200 pieces of traditional African art to Richmond's Virginia Union University, and they have made significant gifts of drawings and paintings by Thornton Dial to that and other American institutions. The Sellmans have spent the past 25 years supporting African American artists, exhibitions and other academic projects. Since 1978, Sellman has served on the Clinical Faculty of the Medical College of Virginia-VCU Medical School. In 2001, he was recognized by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill as one of the 35 outstanding psychiatrists in America.

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Truth and Consequences: The 25-Year Friendship of Thornton Dial and Bill Arnett [139]

Truly Transformative: Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gifts 57 Works of Art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art [140]

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JAMES & BARBARA SELLMAN are longtime collectors of the work of Thornton Dial and other Southern outsider artists, in addition to African Art. James, a practicing clinical psychiatrist, is President of the Folk Art Society of America, and Barbara is a member of the FASA Board of Directors.

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Remembering Our Friend and Mentor, William "Bill" Arnett [142]

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The late E. LEE SHEPARD was Vice President for Collections and Sallie and William B. Thalhimer III Senior Archivist of the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, Va.

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Folk Art Society of America Archives at the Virginia Historical Society [144]

DAVID K. SMITH is an artist, an art historian and the publisher of the folk art journal, The Bottlecap.

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Animals in the Art of Charley and Noah Kinney [145]

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CAROL MILLSOM STUDER recently retired as professor of child development and education at New York University.

The late VICTOR STUDER was director of tea research at Thomas J. Lipton Co., and a member of the Folk Art Society's National Advisory Board.

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Ted Ludwiczak's Easter Island on the Hudson [147]

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CHRISTINE STYLE is Professor Emerita of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

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The Chitrakars of Naya [149]

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ADRIAN SWAIN is the former Curator at the Kentucky Folk Art Center, Morehead State University.

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When I Win the Doctor Thing: Minnie Adkins [151]

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PETER SZOK is associate professor of history at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Pavoneándose por el Infierno: Los Diablos Rojos de Panamá [153]

Swaggering Through Hell: The Rise and Decline of Panama’s Red Devil Buses [154]

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SUSANNE THEIS was formerly the director of the Orange Show Foundation in Houston, Tex

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The Drive to Create: Three Handmade Personal Spaces in Houston [156]

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JOHN TURNER, from Berkeley, Calif., is an artist, writer, world traveler, a retired arts producer for KGO-TV in San Francisco, and a former curator at the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum.

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Clayton Bailey 1939-2020 [158]

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KENNETH WALKER is a folk art collector in Silver Spring, Md.

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Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park Planned [160]

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The late DICK WENSTRUP lived on a farm near New Richmond, Ohio, and collected folk art and books. He was a member of the Folk Art Society's National Advisory Board.

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Riding the Saw: A Trip to Dude Baker's [162]

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BETH WILTSHIRE is a peer (though not a Peer Specialist), and she has worked in Rapid Access, Medical Records and as a receptionist in Mental Health.

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Charlie Thedieck: An Artist Rising [164]

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JEFFREY WOLF is a New York writer, director and film editor. His 2008 documentary film, James Castle: Portrait of an Artist, portrays Castle’s life and creative process, as told by family members, artists and members of the deaf community. His newest documentary, Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts, will premier during the opening of Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on September 28, 2018.

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Elijah Pierce: An American Journey [166]

Voices of Mississippi: An Interview with William (Bill) Ferris [167]

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LARRY YUST is a filmmaker and photographer living in Los Angeles. The photographs for the Salvation Mountain article [169] were taken recently and have never before been published. “The mountain constantly changes, and I can’t stop taking pictures of it,” Yust says.

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The Interactive Mountain of Leonard Knight [169]