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5 unusual facts about American Folk Art Museum


Alexa Woodward

She later ventured out to perform at other public venues such as Banjo Jim's, the American Folk Art Museum, Pete's Candy Store, and The Living Room.

American Folk Art Museum

Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England/Brandeis University Press in association American Folk Art Museum, 2007.

Helaine Fendelman

In 1975 she began her career in the arts as a curator at the American Folk Art Museum.

Nellie Mae Rowe

Her work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress American Folklife Center in Washington, D.C., and the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, New York.

Westfield Memorial Library

Some of the museums that are available through the program are the American Folk Art Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Children's Museum of Manhattan.


Chris Hipkiss

Apart from major shows in US self-taught and 'Outsider' institutions (Intuit, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, American Folk Art Museum), the work of Hipkiss has been featured in exhibitions at Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, FRAC Picardie, New Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art and me Collectors Room Berlin.

Delaware Art Museum

Fred Comegys, Harold Eugene Edgerton, James Gurney, May Morris, Maxfield Parrish, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Frank Schoonover, ultra-realist sculptor Marc Sijan, and John Sloan, as well as works from the collection of the Royal Holloway, University of London, and African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum.

George Widener

His work can be found in many private and public Outsider Art collections, including the Bruno Decharme ABCD Collection in Paris, The American Folk Art Museum, The Art Collection of the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, and The Collection de l’Art Brut.

Rodger Stevens

His work has been exhibited in New York at: Whitney Museum of American Art; the American Folk Art Museum; the Katonah Museum of Art; Sotheby's; Tiffany & Co.; the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Denise Bibro Fine Art; the Jonathan Levine Gallery; the Aidan Savoy Gallery; the Cinders Gallery; the Front Room Gallery; the Rockland Center for the Arts, and Abingdon 12.


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Alexa Hampton

Alexa Hampton was awarded the “American Spirit Award” by the American Folk Art Museum in January 2005 for her commission as the interior designer of the Trowbridge House, the official guest house of past presidents of the United States in Washington, DC.