What Is Folk Art?

Today we had a discussion about how to determine what folk art is because our project this summer is an online exhibit of folk art. We each defined folk art in our own way and shared our opinions with the group. Then we examined books on folk art, and we also went online to learn more about this art form. One question that we have is

who gets to decide what qualifies as folk art?

and that's when Shelly drew this picture:

Do you think this is folk art?

This is us hard at work:

Lancy, Katie and Shelly (the artist of the group)

Allison and Jessie

What do you think folk art is?Leave us comments here!

-The Junior Curators: Allison, Jessie, Katie, Lancy and Shelly."

Note from the editor (Anne):

for those of you who don't know the Junior Curators program...

Junior Curators are Junior Docents who have chosen to design an exhibit. This year, the group of JCs are working on an online exhibit on folk art. The theme was chosen by the education staff in anticipation for a "real" exhibit opening next spring at the Heritage Center.

Junior Curators are supervised/guided by education staff Richard Bowen and Anne Poubeau....but most of the words and photos you will see here are theirs... (except when one of the education staff decides to write a "note from the editor"!)

Junior Curators meet every Thursday afternoon. At the end of each session, they will write a post for this blog and hope to get comments from you!