Basket making is the process of interlacing short flexible fibers to form a container using a process of coili...

Helen Marie Long Bittick was an artist of the “primitive folk style,” meaning that she had no academic art...

James Black, popularly known as the maker of the bowie knife, was one of the early pioneers of Arkansas and se...

The origins of the blues are murky, but the state of Arkansas seems to have hosted the music and its creators ...

The bowie knife, made popular in the 1830s, has evolved into a specific form in current use. The bowie knife w...

Crop circles are a relatively recent phenomenon in Arkansas, appearing in northeastern Arkansas wheat fields i...

Folk music is part of a society’s “unofficial culture,” much of which is passed on through face-to-face ...

The history of the Gibson family of basket makers—which, as of 2009, has produced split white oak baskets fo...

King Crowley is the most famous archaeological fake produced in Arkansas and was originally part of a collecti...

Helen Martin King was one of Arkansas’s most unique artists, developing the almost-forgotten craft of rug ho...

The artistry of stone carver Nick Miller is found in cemeteries throughout northwestern Arkansas. The tombston...

Vernacular architecture is usually defined as structures that groups of people make for daily use—that is, b...

Quiltmaking is the creation of a bedspread, coverlet, or wall hanging by quilting, defined as tying or sewing ...

Rock art is a term archaeologists use to describe images on rock surfaces created both prehistorically and his...

Essie Ann Treat Ward, who is often referred to as “Grandma Moses of the Ozarks,” produced paintings that a...

The term whittling refers to “the making of useful things.” It is a folkway with roots deep in the heritag...