Description: Free, nonprofit ejournal and information center focused on traditional American folk art and Americana created from the Colonial era to the early 20th century.
Americana Insights is pleased to announce the publication of its first printed annual volume, which presents groundbreaking research on traditional American folk art and material culture. Essays by leading scholars provide a wealth of new insights on a diverse array of artistic traditions, bringing depth and color to our understanding of the American experience. Read More >
Americana Insights highlights the best examples of traditional American folk art from Colonial times to the early 20th century—objects of extraordinary beauty, created with purpose by skilled, artful hands. Thoughtful essays and gorgeous color photographs tell the stories behind the art and its makers and celebrate the richness and diversity of our folk-art traditions, encompassing works by rural and city artisans, Pennsylvania Germans, Shakers, African Americans, schoolgirls and female academies, Native Am
Presentations offer fresh insight on a host of objects—carved and paint-decorated furniture and boxes; paintings and portraits by itinerant artists; trade figures and signs; redware and stoneware pottery; weathervanes and whirligigs; ceramics, glass, silver, pewter, and other decorative arts; quilts, samplers, needlework, and embroidery; family records, calligraphy, valentines, and friendship albums; decoys, scrimshaw, and other carvings; hooked and sewn rugs; Windsor chairs and benches; baskets, woodenware