The legendary sect’s short-lived “gift drawings” of Shaker women are a hypnotic and still puzzling cornucopia of rapturous color and mysterious coding.
Essential Questions
The American Folk Art Museum confronts viewers with the thorny matter of art and mental illness.
Hidden Names and Complex Fates
A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum examines the depictions of Black people in the art of the Early American North.
Endnotes: Making Choices
Brooke Wyatt explains how the exhibition, Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work, explores a common question in art.
Narratives in the Needlework
Storytelling through quilts in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum.
Current and coming: All Stars at AFAM
The American Folk Art Museum is celebrating the start of its seventh decade with a power-packed exhibition
Openings and Closings: January 26 to February 1
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Editor’s letter: September/October 2021
Editor-in-chief Gregory Cerio welcomes us to our September/October 2021 issue!
How American Weathervanes Became Art
An excerpt from the book that is the basis for a new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum
Editor’s Letter: July/August 2021
Editor-in-chief Gregory Cerio welcomes readers to our July/August 2021 issue!