Quilts come in many colors and patterns and are made from a variety of materials. They keep people warm on a cold night, but they can be much more than that. "I love being able to hear directly ...

The American Folk Art Museum looked more plucked than plucky at the close of 2011. The museum owns the most extensive collection of American folk art anywhere, along with a large selection of folk art ...

Staff at the American Folk Art Museum (Afam ... The Afam collection includes more than 8,000 objects spanning from the 1890s to now. "I love the museum, its exhibitions and programmes, but ...

The American ... to its robust collection of folk quilts, the museum is known for its offbeat, charming, and informative exhibitions of work beyond the canon of formal art education — often ...

The museum's inaugural exhibition, "American Radiance," is the unveiling of what has been widely considered the most important collection of American folk art in private hands. Recently donated to ...

About the speaker Brooke Wyatt is Luce Assistant Curator at the American Folk Art Museum where she is working on a series of exhibitions drawn from the Museum's collection of folk and self-taught art.