Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1993. This is an account of the life and work of the African American folk artist Horace Pippin. Stitching Stars: The ...

Scott is an African-American artist best known for her depictions of racially ... Born on November 15, 1948 in Baltimore, MD, she is the daughter of renowned quilt maker and folk artist Elizabeth ...

The African American Museum of Dallas features one of the largest collections of African American folk art in the U.S. The museum displays African art, Black renaissance paintings, decorative arts ...

In this lesson, students research the face jug, a 19th century art form that formed a bridge between African American freedmen ... ancestry or as a decorative folk art using the original methods.

The Museum of International Folk Art also showcases ... you'll encounter African, Asian, Middle Eastern, contemporary Hispanic and Latino, European, North American and Spanish Colonial pieces ...

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...