Sam, The Dot Man

Folk Art in the Blogosphere 

Blog posts on folk art and outsider art

Slotin Folk Fest 2009 |

Just because folk art is self-taught, and in some cases untaught, don't assume it isn't deeply rooted in tradition. At last weekend's Slotin Folk... ... or is a 21st century folk artist, and outsider one who uses their myspace page to extremes of expression, who does wild, unsellable performance art in a suburban locale, sends out awesome, weird communications to admiring listservs? hard to say. . . -kt. #3730. Cornmeal. August 24, 2009 at 5:19 pm ...

Classic Ground: Athens Flagpole on "Lord Love You"

Georgia folk artist R.A. Miller did. Organized by the temporarily closed Georgia Museum of Art and on view at the Lyndon House Arts Center, ?Lord Love You? is a sampling of 83 works from Miller's prolific output. ... Minus "the real thing" pun and the commentary a little too 1980s in the debate on the role of folk art / outsider art / vernacular art / work by self-taught artists in museums and galleries, it is a review, I appreciate, that does look at some of the art. ...

chickory: Folk Fest 2009

Back to the art school people: this post is not a dig on them. while i would like to see more self-representing self taught artists at this show (most primitives are represented by dealers and their work is very expensive), ... A true outsider artist from ireland his resume reads like a traveling jack-of-all-trades just like a folk artist of old might have been. His subjects are musicians and kings and circuses and figures from another time that you know from intuition or ...