Art and Architecture
New York State Folklife Reader
New York and its folklore scholars hold an important place in the history of the discipline. In New York dialogue between folklore researchers in the academy and those working in the public arena has ...
Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017
Contributions by Elizabeth Abston, Betsy Bradley, LeRonn Brooks, Mimi Miller, Roger Ward, and Jochen Wierich
This anthology of essays is published in conjunction with the bicentennial of Mississippi statehood ...
Dancing with My Father
Leif Anderson's Dancing with My Father is both a loving tribute to her unusual and famous father, Mississippi artist Walter Anderson, and an honest look at the effects he has had upon her personal life ...
Curatorial Conversations
Since its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural ...
The Artist's Sketch
Artist Kate Freeman Clark (1875–1957) left behind over one thousand paintings now stored at a gallery bearing her name in her hometown of Holly Springs, Mississippi. But it was not until after her death i ...
Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1: Bayou Terrebonne
Winner of a 2017 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award
This book represents the first time that the known history and a significant amount of new information has been compiled into ...
Expressions of Place
Expressions of Place embarks on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Louisiana via the talents of thirty-seven artists located all around the state. Many are acclaimed professionals whose ...
Outsider Art
Outsider art has exploded onto the international art scene, gaining widespread attention for its startling originality and visual power. As an expression of raw creativity, outsider art remains associated ...
Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain training and to ...
SoulStirrers
In SoulStirrers, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum describes the birth and development of an artistic movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, identified with the Neo-Ancestral impulse. The Neo-Ancestral impulse emerges as an ...