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    The Folk Art Center is a museum of Appalachian folk art and crafts located at milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina. It...
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    Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some...
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    The Kentucky Folk Art Center is a folk art museum administered by Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, United States. Its focus is not only...
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  • Cincinnati, Ohio, Cornett donated the cross to the museum In 2014, Kentucky Folk Art Center ("KFAC") presented the first comprehensive exhibition of Cornett's...
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    The American Folk Art Museum is an art museum in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street...
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    Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (category American folk art)
    The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center was opened in 1957 in Colonial Williamsburg to house her collection of folk art. A number prominent figures...
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  • Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (Virginia) The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (AARFAM) is the United States' first and the world's oldest...
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  • arts in Kentucky with such organizations as the Kentucky Folk Art Center and the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, was the childhood home of philanthropist...
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    Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk...
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    folk art is a regional form of folk art based in the Appalachian region in the United States. In an article about the contemporary form of this art,...
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    Folklore (redirect from Folk Culture)
    in art schools; or they have been repurposed as folk art, characterized as objects whose decorative form supersedes their utilitarian needs. Folk art is...
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    Mexican handcrafts and folk art is a complex collection of items made with various materials and intended for utilitarian, decorative or other purposes...
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    "Cumberland Gap" (first recorded in 1924) is a popular folk song recorded and performed by American folk and bluegrass musicians such as Woody Guthrie and...
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    In addition to the road, the parkway has a folk art center located at mile marker 382 and a visitor center located at mile marker 384, both near Asheville...
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    Arts town (redirect from Art towns)
    themselves to an artistic identity based on traditional ceramics and folk-art centered on an arts oriented town square. Going back several millennia, in...
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  • Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. Vol. 5: Philippine Dance. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines...
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    Rebecca Couch (category American folk artists)
    documented by 1988. Rumford, Beatrix T., ed. American Folk Paintings, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center Series 11 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company...
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    African folk art consists of a variety of items: household objects, metal objects, toys, textiles, masks, and wood sculpture. Most traditional African art meets...
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    Vaillancourt Folk Art (VFA) is a high end Christmas manufacturer, wholesaler, and retail gallery located in Sutton, Massachusetts known for their hand-painted...
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    Southern Highland Craft Guild (category Southern art)
    headquartered at the Folk Art Center at milepost 382 of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, North Carolina. The Folk Art Center also houses the Guild's...
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  • The Bountiful Davis Art Center is an art center created in 1974. It is based in the city of Bountiful, Utah. Bountiful City and the University of Utah...
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    recreational place on the Blue Ridge Parkway and second in visitors after the Folk Art Center that sees 250,000 visitors. Together with the Julian Price Memorial...
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  • Art Museum, Folk Art Center Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum Charlotte: Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Mint Museum of Art Durham: Nasher Museum of Art...
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    Southern Highland Craft Guild's Folk Art Center, dedicated to Appalachian craft traditions The YMI Cultural Center, exhibiting art related to the heritage of...
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    heritage. Tangible folk art includes historic objects which are crafted and used within a traditional community. Intangible folk arts include forms such...
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  • Henry Darger (category Fantastic art)
    the Museum of Modern Art and the American Folk Art Museum in New York, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, the Art Institute of Chicago...
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  • shaping culture and arts in the Syracuse city community - Community Folk Art Center (CFAC). It has also supported the Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company...
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    and folk and self-taught art. Among the best in the collection are the museum's holding of American decorative arts, German Expressionism, folk and Haitian...
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    also "folk music", but is often called "contemporary folk music" or "folk revival music" to make the distinction. The transition was somewhat centered in...
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    environments. The Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company and the Community Folk Art Center will also be located downtown. On March 31, 2006, the university and...
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