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Americana Insights is pleased to announce the publication of its first printed annual volume, which presents groundbreaking research on traditional American folk art and material culture. Essays by leading scholars provide a wealth of new insights on a diverse array of artistic traditions, bringing depth and color to our understanding of the American experience.
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Americana Insights is pleased to announce the publication of its first printed annual volume, which presents groundbreaking research on traditional American folk art and material culture. Essays by leading scholars provide a wealth of new insights on a diverse array of artistic traditions, bringing depth and color to our understanding of the American experience.
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Recent Briefs
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New research into the fraktur and watercolor artist
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The first comprehensive scholarly book on weathervanes
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University of Michigan Museum of ArtAnn Arbor, MIAugust 26, 2023 - January 7, 2024
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Preservation Long IslandCold Spring Harbor, NYMay 25 - October 8, 2023
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ABBY ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER FOLK ART MUSEUMWilliamsburg, VAOngoing
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New York State MuseumAlbany, NYOngoing
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Kinderhook Knitting MillKinderhook, NYJune 16 - September 10, 2023
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Colonial WilliamsburgWilliamsburg, VAOngoing
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ABBY ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER FOLK ART MUSEUMWilliamsburg, VAOngoing
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Shelburne MuseumShelburne, VTJune 24 - October 22, 2023
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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical GardensSan Marino, CASeptember 17, 2022 – September 4, 2023
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Fenimore Art MuseumCooperstown, NYJune 24 - September 24, 2023
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American Folk Art MuseumNew York, NYMarch 17 – October 29, 2023
Americana Insights highlights the best examples of traditional American folk art from Colonial times to the early 20th century—objects of extraordinary beauty, created with purpose by skilled, artful hands. Thoughtful essays and gorgeous color photographs tell the stories behind the art and its makers and celebrate the richness and diversity of our folk-art traditions, encompassing works by rural and city artisans, Pennsylvania Germans, Shakers, African Americans, schoolgirls and female academies, Native Americans, and many others.
Presentations offer fresh insight on a host of objects—carved and paint-decorated furniture and boxes; paintings and portraits by itinerant artists; trade figures and signs; redware and stoneware pottery; weathervanes and whirligigs; ceramics, glass, silver, pewter, and other decorative arts; quilts, samplers, needlework, and embroidery; family records, calligraphy, valentines, and friendship albums; decoys, scrimshaw, and other carvings; hooked and sewn rugs; Windsor chairs and benches; baskets, woodenware, tools, and more —and put them all into historical, social, and artistic context.
By inviting experts and scholars to share new research, our content remains fresh and current. By sharing our deep appreciation for Americana, we hope to extend and enhance knowledge of traditional American folk art among long time collectors, students and scholars. And, by keeping everything accessible and enjoyable, we hope to inspire and engage newcomers.
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