Folk Art

Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

Chicano Graffiti and Murals: The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada

Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South

Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana

Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters

Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon

Haitian Vodou Flags

Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art

Let It Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection

Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists

Miracles of the Spirit: Folk, Art, and Stories from Wisconsin

The Mississippi Story

Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole

On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton

Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief

Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen

Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art

Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture

Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art

Santeria Garments and Altars: Speaking Without a Voice

Spirit of the Delta: The Art of Carolyn Norris

A Spiritual Journey: The Art of Eddie Lee Kendrick

Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakum

The Treasure of Ulysses Davis: Sculpture from a Savannah Barbershop

Vietnam Remembered: The Folk Art of Marine Combat Veteran Michael D. Cousino, Sr.

Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation

Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassaise

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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