“Chalkware dates back to the mid 1800s and it was originally called poor man’s Staffordshire,” Connolly said, of the early American folk art, which he uses today to make primarily holiday ...

Similar revelations abound in “Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North,” a vitally important, deeply moving show currently at the American Folk Art Museum.

Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North,” the profoundly moving exhibition she co-curated at New York’s American Folk Art Museum, on view through the end of March. Instead ...

The play with pastel dots and stripes echoes the hand-colored chalkware ... Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman succeeds where other exhibitions, such as the recent Folk Art and ...

"Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North" at AFAM. A visit to the American Folk Art Museum for "Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American ...