Atlanta’s High Museum self-taught art collection stands as the premiere collection of its kind in the South both in terms of scale and quality. Whether…
By Chadd ScottHigh Museum self-taught art collection continues to grow
By Chadd Scott By Chadd ScottMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston showcasing the “art of the people,” folk art
The exhibition examines the creation of folk art as a collecting category in the early 20th century.
By Chadd ScottInternational Folk Art Market planning for in-person event this July in Santa Fe
The world-renowned International Folk Art Market (IFAM) is scheduled to have the event in person July 7 – July 18, 2021.
By Chadd ScottFind the ‘Mad Potter of Biloxi’ at The MAX in Meridian, MS
Eccentric, brilliant and a century ahead of his time, George Ohr is featured in the exhibition “Deliberately Distorted: The Pottery of George E. Ohr,” which will be on view through Jan. 10, 2021.
By Chadd ScottVenus Over Manhattan Brings Andrew LaMar Hopkins ‘Créolité’ to New Gallery Space
Créolité, includes new portraits, miniatures, and Andrew LaMar Hopkins signature architectural tableaux, that all relate to the complexity of Creole identities and the antebellum history of the Gulf States in the American South.
By Chadd ScottQuilts as Art – a Radical Tradition
As nostalgic symbols of the American past, quilts have been viewed as antidotes to upheaval during times of change. Quilts as art? Not at all.
By Chadd ScottStarting Blocks For Transatlantic Slave Trade Explored By Artist Paa Joe
![Paa Joe (Ghanaian, born 1947), '[Fort] Gross - Friedrichsburg – Princetown.' 1683 Brandenburg, 1717 - 24 Ahanta, 1724 Neths, 1872 Britain, 2004 – 2005 and 2017, emele wood and enamel. PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM, GIFT OF JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, 2019.58.2 . PHOTO © PAA JOE, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK.](https://www.seegreatart.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Paa-Joe-3.jpg)
Ghanaian artist Joseph Tetteh-Ashong (born 1947), popularly known as Paa Joe, gives shape to the starting blocks of the Middle Passage at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta’s presentation of “Paa Joe: Gates of No Return.”
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