Magazine July/August 2024

Don Sparacin

Facing Forward
Elizabeth Pochoda

Appalachian industry; tornadoes in Michigan; becoming Paula Modersohn-Becker in New York ; and a tour through Maine with Russell Cheney, Eastman Johnson, and Penobscot basket maker Robert S. Anderson

Jane Freedom’s Sampler: Girlhood needlework, local tradition, and personal identity
Ella Langridge

Going Platinum: The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe celebrates seventy years on the scene
Chris Waddington

Bringing Stained Glass Up Close
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle

Boys in Brooches: The present and past of jewelry for men
Jeannine Falino

The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home by R. Tripp Evans
Mitchell Owens

Sierra Holt

’Tis a Gift To Be 250
Eleanor H. Gustafson

The Life of Samuel Broadbent, 1759–1828
Michael R. Payne and Suzanne Rudnick Payne

Miniature Landscapes in Nineteenth-Century America
Caroline Culp

A look at the work of Kentucky-born activist ceramist Charles Counts
Monica Obniski

The American Folk Art Museum confronts visitors with the thorny matter of art and mental illness
Elizabeth Pochoda

Despite their diverse origins, modern and folk arts from around the world achieve a rare aesthetic unity in the former home—now house museum—of an American expat in Mexico
Chandravali Martínez

Looking at Scrimshaw from a Pacific Perspective
Naomi Slipp