"Folk Art" Blogs & Blog Posts

The Scare-Fox (1910) was a mechanical device created to scare foxes away from pheasants and looks like a fantastic piece of folk art. The Scare-Fox worked by sending flashes of light outwards and showcasing a cartoonish face meant to scare the foxes...

This folk art mouse trap looks like something out of a nightmare. The incredible handmade cat-shaped trap is carved from wood and features a set of blunt metal spikes as teeth. Ouch! Nautilus Antiques: This wonderful mousetrap, dated 1 March 1921 an...

Vollis Simpson (1919 – May 31, 2013) was a folk artist who created an art landscape of unique windmills for the public to enjoy. Simpson used found scrap metal along with many colorful bits of material to create his "whirligigs". — Read the r...

Mary's Gone Wild Visionary Folk Art Museum & Doll Village is a visionary-art oasis located on a country road that runs between Wilmington, NC and Myrtle Beach, SC. Mary Paulsen says that she began building a village of houses for her collection o...

Hamtramck Disneyland is a folk art environment in Michigan created by Ukrainian Immigrant Dmytro Szylak. Here are the directions on how to get there.  Szylak moved to the United States with his wife in the 1950s, and built the Hamtramck Disneyla...

The Orange Show is a folk art installation dedicated to the celebration of oranges. It's located in Houston, Texas. It was created in the 1950s by Jefferson Davis McKissack, a Houston postal worker.  The 3,000-square-foot environment is designed...

Since I couldn't do any St. Patrick's Day shows last year thanks to that ongoing pandemic thing, so I spent my winter recording an album of Irish folk songs at home. It was a fun experiment, and people seemed to actually enjoy it. — Read the re...