Brooke Wyatt explains how the exhibition, Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work, explores a common question in art.
Current and coming: This is your life, Frederick Douglass
The American icon gets the spotlight at the One Life Gallery.
Community Chest
Artist and artisan Madeline Yale Wynne and the founding of the Deerfield arts and crafts movement.
Current and coming: Hector Guimard, Architecte d’art, at the Driehaus
The artist’s six-decade career is explored with one hundred pieces of decorative and fine art dating from the Belle Époque and beyond.
Narratives in the Needlework
Storytelling through quilts in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum.
Current and coming: Women take the stage at the Thomas Cole House
Two exhibitions showcase the work of overlooked and underrepresented women artists.
Clay, Water, and Spirit
An exhibition of Pueblo pottery seeks to reveal the soul that resides within the art.
Current and coming: A self-taught artist in the internment camps
Takuichi Fujii’s illustrated diary during Executive Order 9066 is on display at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.
Current and coming: William Edmondson at the Barnes
On view at the Barnes Foundation is the work of one of the most famous and least known members of the great American self-taught artists.
Watercolors at Harvard and MoMA
Two summer exhibitions explore works in the most elusive yet expressive of mediums