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Polish folk art society defends its 'Oskar' award

ABC7Chicago.com - Feb 22, 2012
February 22, 2012 (WARSAW, Poland) -- Few would confuse the glitz of the Academy Awards with a ceremony held by a folk arts society in Poland, but Hollywood doesn't want anyone else handing out Oscars. So the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ...

Cool folk art, 'King Kong' showing, maple sugaring: 5 things to do with your ...

Plain Dealer - Feb 21, 2012
Folk art rocks. Show your kids how folk is cool at the Akron Art Museum's new exhibit "Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster" beginning Saturday through June 3. It's the first major retrospective of the folk art icon.

Polish folk art society defends its 'Oskar' award

Washington Times - Feb 20, 2012
By AP AP WARSAW, POLAND (AP) - The head of a Polish folk art society is defending the name of its main award, the “People's Oskar,” against a legal protest by the US film group that awards the Oscars of Hollywood fame.

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Folk Art books

Mexican Folk Art Coloring Book

by: Marty Noble
Striking adaptations of authentic native art depict, among other subjects, a Mixtec circular design from an incised gourd rattle, religious figures from a Metepec candlestick, and images of jaguars taken from a Guerrero lacquered chest. An exciting challenge for coloring book enthusiasts, these 30 illustrations will also inspire artists, designers, and craftspeople.
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Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement

by: Suzi Parron, Donna Sue Groves
The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America's tourist and folk art map.

Through dozens of interviews with barn artists, committee members, and barn owners Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves.
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Graphic Design Thinking

by: Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips
Creativity is more than an inborn talent; it is a hard-earned skill, and like any other skill, it improves with practice. Graphic Design Thinking: How to Define Problems, Get Ideas, and Create Form explores a variety of informal techniques ranging from quick, seat-of-the-pants approaches to more formal research methods for stimulating fresh thinking, and ultimately arriving at compelling and viable solutions. In the style with which author Ellen has come to been known hands-on, up-close approach to instructional design writing brainstorming techniques are grouped around the three basic phases of the design process: defining the problem, inventing ideas, and creating form.
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American Pickers Guide to Picking

by: Libby Callaway, Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz, Danielle Colby

A true adventure story and the go-to guide for "picking" American treasures from anyone’s backyard, straight from the stars of History's American Pickers.
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Folk Art videos

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Butch Anthony's Alabama Folk Art Compound

blog.etsy.com Meet Alabama's Doo-Nanny founders Butch Anthony and John Henry Toney. Wend your way through Butch Anthony's perpetually-evolving Alabama compound, where artifacts, oddities, and folk art take root. Music by Forrest Lewinger; Images courtesy of Butch Anthony, and Orange Hill Art

 

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How to use FolkArt® Enamels™ Paint with Donna Dewberry

www.plaidonline.com One Stroke™ creator Donna Dewberry teaches you how to paint using the One Stroke™ technique and FolkArt® Enamels™ paint.

 

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Jim Bloom at Outsider Folk Art Gallery

Walkthrough of the exhibit with an interview by assistant Director Emily Christianson

 

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Family Guy - Plywood Cutout Folk Art

Al Harrington's famous ad.

 

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Appalachian Folk Art by E.Cunningham

Appalachian Folk Art by E.Cunningham