Steve Stetzler, the owner and chef at the Deitsch Eck Restaurant in the historic Lenhartsville Hotel, in Lenhartsville, recently began a project to restore the Pennsylvania Dutch folk art ...

In trying to understand the American folk art of our 17th and 18th century Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants to the New World, one must understand the premise of how much of a religious backlash these ...

Numerous folklorists have attempted to trace certain Pennsylvania Dutch Folk art dower chest designs to their original folk artists living in southeastern Pennsylvania for a number of years now ...

It was in her late 20s when Rachel Yoder realized she didn’t know much about her heritage. She yearned to feel connected to her roots, and for Yoder, art was a natural way to do so. “It was my ...

geometric designs painted on the sides of Pennsylvania Dutch barns that most people know as “hex signs.” Usually stars, pinwheels or rosettes, the folk-art symbols have decorated Berks County ...

It's the camels that will grab your attention in Winterthur Museum's new exhibit about the folk art of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Anyone even slightly familiar with that art, which is common all over ...

The 18 pieces in the exhibit include paintings and other creations that respond to pieces of local folk art from ... was inspired by Pennsylvania Dutch and German fraktur art — the highly ...

Perhaps nothing symbolizes Pennsylvania Dutch culture ... director of the Kutztown Folk Festival, the nine-day festival celebrating Dutch culture. “It is a unique symbol,” Sharadin says.

It also symbolizes smooth sailing and tranquility and is often found on colorful hex signs, a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art commonly found painted on barns in Berks County, where I was born.

they brought with them an aesthetic vernacular that became known as Pennsylvania Dutch folk art. The style—characterized by decorative repeated motifs, including flowers, stars, and birds ...