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You are invited to participate in the Greek Folk Festival 2009. The festival is hosted by the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church of Baltimore, Maryland, and is the largest Hellenic festival in the Baltimore-metropolitan region. Join us on June 11, 12, 13, & 14, 2009 for this celebration of Greek culture!
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This event is a combination of the Faust Folk Festival and the Tilles Fine Arts and Crafts Festival. Together this event provides you with a larger shopping experience with both historic and current artist. You can see everything from blacksmithing and pit fired pottery being demonstrated to oil and acrylic painting, children's activities from the past and present, and live music. With admission to this event, everyone will receive a free ride on the St. Louis Carousel and hayrides to and from their cars.
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The Scheumack Broom company handcrafts these Witches brooms, or besoms, with every attention to detail. They also offer many different styles of brooms and wood carvings. Everything they make is done by hand from harvesting and preparing the raw materials to the finished piece. Whether your need is simply the best and longest lasting broom you've ever had, a ritual piece for a sacred spot in your life, a ceremonial piece for your wedding or hand fasting, or a theatrical piece... these are the real thing.
Glassware Art by Lauren Becker is keeping it green. Becker's store "Recycled Glassworks" specializes in the production of handmade, unique dishes and bowls. Every piece is cut from used window-type glass, and kiln-fired over molds that give them their new form, as well as a brand new life. Plate glass (from windows, shelves, doors etc.) is usually excluded from most other recycling programs. Many recycling centers accept only bottle glass. To keep plate glass out of the waste stream, Recycled Glassworks creates products that are both functional and infused with a unique aesthetic.
Woodside, CA: Spend the day in the redwoods at the 45th Annual Kings Mountain Art Fair...Labor Day Weekend... September 5, 6 and 7, 2009; 8AM to 5PM; Kings Mountain Community Center, 13889 Skyline Boulevard (Highway 35), above Half Moon Bay.
The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market is not only a global gathering of master folk artists, but a place where visitors can accomplish real good just by showing up. The largest event of its kind in the world, the Market, July 11-12, 2009, provides an affordable, unparalleled chance to buy cultural treasures from around the world, meet and buy art from 147 master artists, and have a direct and often profound influence on the lives of the artists and their communities.
Are you looking for Halloween Folk Art? Check out this site GrimPrim. Here you can find one-of-a-kind artwork for halloween created by artist D.A. Sweigart. Grim Prim Studio is home to grinning black cats, dancing witches and strange creatures on mysterious errands.
If you would like to learn to use a color wheel or mix paints, you should check out this step-by-step guide. It is a great way to teach children how colors are mixed together. This can be a fun family project that teaches about art and painting.
(more)In this digital age Folk Art isn't limited to the physical realm. It is possible to create art through film and digital technology as well. Now that the internet has become so popular, sharing your digital art is easy and can reach a wide audience. Here is a great example of a "new form" of folk art!
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Follow our step-by-step guide to create your own pinata using items you probably already have in your home! This is an easy project parents can do with children of all ages. It is a wonderful way to build creativity and have fun on rainy days or weekends when you have nothing else to do
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Most people, even if they do not collect antiques or have any interest in folk art, have heard of "ships in bottles," have marvelled at the ingenuity of the carvers and wondered at the process of building the ship through the narrow neck of a bottle. Few people, however, realize that there are other forms of folk art in bottles, forms which are widely repeated and which have many common features.
(more)Anne DeGrace, the author of the just-released book, Treading Water (McArthur and Company), has been thinking about local culture and she's come up with a list. Want to know what you can do to embrace local culture? Here are Anne's 10 suggestions Embrace Canadian culture and check out her novel!
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No one is 100% sure of the origination story of southern American face jugs, but two stories in particular seem to capture some of the mystique surrounding these oddly humorous creations. (more)
Marco Polo discovered the Chinese fashioning figures of cows, oxen or even buffaloes, covering them with colored paper and adorning them with harnesses and trappings to greet the New Year. When they knocked the figure hard with sticks of various colors, seeds spilled forth. The remains were then burned and people gathered the ashes to bring good luck throughout the year.
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Memory vessels were made by placing small everyday objects such as keys, screws and nails, glass vials, shells, nuts, and jewelry on the surface of bottles or ceramic jugs using putty, cement, or other adhesive material.
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Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions and traditional social values of various social groups. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training, nor a desire to emulate "fine art", and use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture. Along with painting, sculpture, and other decorative art forms, some also consider utilitarian objects such as tools and costume as folk art.
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