American Folk Art Museum
museum · Lincoln Square
Self-taught, outsider, and folk art. Small but reliably interesting.
On view
Self-Made: A Century of Inventing ArtistsSixty self-taught artists from the early twentieth century to today depict themselves through self-portraits, alter egos, and autobiographies, challenging narratives of isolation and amateurism.
Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United StatesVernacular art and patriotic expression from the museum's collections, exploring how Americans have constructed national identity through folk objects from the Revolutionary War era to today.
Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American "Schoolgirl" ArtApproximately 100 needlework pictures, samplers, watercolors, and other ornamental arts made by American girls in the 18th and 19th centuries, reframed through landscape and place.