Recently back from a trip to Jamaica, Richard Edson of the Folk Art Gallery has mounted an exhibit of Jamaican artists of African descent. The works of these artists — painters, sculptors and ...

By Roberta Smith The Jamaican visionary John Dunkley (1891-1947) is the latest artist to decimate the distinctions between self-taught and trained, outsider and insider and folk and not folk.

In the book’s introduction, the Jamaican novelist Marlon James writes ... institutional affirmations of folk or street art can still feel fundamentally incongruous. (This is also true ...

The highly competitive International Folk Art Market is recognised as the number 1 arts festival in the United States. Jamaica was one of only 52 countries able to secure a place out of 600 ...

When Eunice LaFate was a little girl growing up in the Jamaican countryside, she found inspiration for her art in nature. “My parents raised 10 children and we didn’t have wealth, but we had values ...

“Limonious was a true folk artist in his style, subject matter and use of patois,” Beth Lesser notes in the book’s foreword. And it’s true: few other Jamaican artists have established such ...

Louise Bennett-Coverly, the Jamaican folklorist, actress, artist and writer who celebrated ... been allowed to leave the country.” Jamaican folk singer Norma Darby, who lives in Miami, said ...

but retain their appeal as part of Mexican folk-art and religious traditions. That same intense personal expression is projected by the self-trained artists featured in the Frost’s Jamaican ...

“Their art form is of the highest standard ... whose aim it is to showcase the rich and spirited tradition of Jamaican folk culture on the American stage, with a view to preserving this art ...