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Folk Art Society of America

The Folk Art Society of America is a nonprofit organization that advocates the documentation, preservation and exhibition of folk art,^[1] folk artists and folk art environments, with an emphasis on the contemporary. ^[2]

History

The Folk Art Society of America was founded in 1987 by Ann and Boo Oppenhimer. ^[3]^[4]^[5]

The Folk Art Messenger

The Folk Art Society of America publishes The Folk Art Messenger, a quarterly, advertisement-free publication containing articles, auction reports and a calendar of current and upcoming exhibitions.

The Folk Art Messenger has won several awards from Virginia Press Women, ^[6]

The Annual Folk Art Conference

The Folk Art Society's annual Conference includes symposia, special exhibitions and an auction. Conferences haven taken place in Richmond, VA; Washington, DC; Chicago, IL; New Orleans, LA; Santa Fe, NM; Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Milwaukee, WI; Houston, TX; Lexington, KY; San Diego, CA; Savannah, GA; St. Louis, MO; Oakland, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Louisville, KY; and Raleigh, NC.

Awards of Distinction

Every year, The Folk Art Society of America honors artists, writers, and collectors of Folk Art with special awards. Past award winners are: Winners of the Folk Art Society Awards of Distinction:

   1989 - Howard Finster
   1990 - Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr.
   1991 - Robert Bishop (posthumously)
   1992 - Seymour Rosen
   1993 - Minnie Adkins, Dorothy and Sterling Strauser
   1994 - Felipe and Leroy Archuleta, Warren and Sylvia Lowe
   1995 - Ned Cartledge, Chuck and Jan Rosenak
   1996 - Clyde Jones, Gerard Wertkin
   1997 - Mr. Imagination (Gregory Warmack), Flo and Jules Laffal
   1998 - Rev. Johnnie Hunter, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Marilyn Oshman
   1999 - Linvel Barker, Lillian Barker (posthumously), Alan Jabbour
   2000 - Ted Gordon, Bud Goldstone
   2001 - Georgia Blizzard, Shirley Yancey, Peggy Baggett
   2002 - Lorenzo Scott, Betty-Carol Sellen, John Smither (posthumously), Stephanie Smither
   2003 - Ralph N. Lanning, Maude Southwell Wahlman
   2004 - Artists of Creative Growth, Irene Ward Brydon, John Foster, Lee Kogan
   2005 - Stanley Szwarc, Russell Bowman
   2006 - Nicholas Herrera, Peter Cecere
   2007 - Tim Lewis, Bill Glennon, Mary Bryan Hood, Marvin Finn (posthumously)
   2008 - Malcah Zeldis, Rebecca Hoffberger
   2009 - Purvis Young, Ruby Williams, Jack Beverland, Tom and Donna Brumfield, Lynne Browne, Randall Lott, Nancy McCall
   2010 - Marcia Muth, Sabinita Lopez Ortiz, Susan Mitchell Crawley
   2011 - Eldridge Bagley, Kathy Johnson Bowles and Ray Kass
   2012 - William Arnett, Thornton Dial Sr. and Georgine Clarke (posthumously)
   2013 - William Ferris, Bernard Herman, Roger Manley, Jenny Moore and Vollis Simpson (posthumously)

Folk Art Sites Worthy of Preservation and Protection

   Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden, Summerville, Ga.
   Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village, Simi Valley, Calif.
   Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, Los Angeles, Calif.
   Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain, Niland, Calif.
   Miles Carpenter’s Home, Waverly, Va.
   Nek Chand’s Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India
   Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park, Wilson, N.C
   Clyde Jones' Critter Crossing, Bynum, N.C.
   Anderson Johnson Museum, Downing-Gross Cultural Center, Newport News, Va.  ==Merging into Longwood University==

In 2014, The Folk Art Society of America announced that it was to be taken over by Longwood Center for the Visual Arts in Farmville, Virginia.^[7]

References

^ Lohmann, Bill. Richmond Times-Dispatch.[1], [richmond.com]], 16 November, 2014
^ Cite error: The named reference lohmann was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ [2]
^ Getlein, Patrick.Style Weekly Magazine [3]
^ Brown, Bob. Richmond Times-Dispatch "A Richmond couple have created a nationwide organization to support folk art and the artists who create it. The Folk Behind the Art"[4]
^ Virginia Press Women. [5].
^ http://www.longwood.edu/2014releases_58997.htm

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External links

Folk Art Society of America website

^ http://www.longwood.edu/2014releases_58997.htm

[1] Lohmann, Bill. Richmond Times-Dispatch.[1], [richmond.com]], 16 November, 2014

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[4] Getlein, Patrick.Style Weekly Magazine [3]

[5] Brown, Bob. Richmond Times-Dispatch "A Richmond couple have created a nationwide organization to support folk art and the artists who create it. The Folk Behind the Art"[4]

[6] Virginia Press Women. [5].

[7] ttp://www.longwood.edu/2014releases_58997.htm

[8] ttp://www.longwood.edu/2014releases_58997.htm

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