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Folk Art Society of America

The Folk Art Society of America is a nonprofit organization that advocates the documentation, preservation and exhibition of folk art, folk artists and folk art environments, with an emphasis on the contemporary.

History
The Folk Art Society of America was founded in 1987 by Ann and Boo Oppenhimer.

The Folk Art Messenger
The Folk Art Society of America publishes The Folk Art Messenger, a quarterly, advertisement-free publication containing articles, auction reports and a calendar of current and upcoming exhibitions.

The Folk Art Messenger has won several awards from Virginia Press Women,

The Annual Folk Art Conference
The Folk Art Society's annual Conference includes symposia, special exhibitions and an auction. Conferences haven taken place in Richmond, VA; Washington, DC; Chicago, IL; New Orleans, LA; Santa Fe, NM; Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Milwaukee, WI; Houston, TX; Lexington, KY; San Diego, CA; Savannah, GA; St. Louis, MO; Oakland, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Louisville, KY; and Raleigh, NC.

Awards of Distinction
Every year, The Folk Art Society of America honors artists, writers, and collectors of Folk Art with special awards. Past award winners are: Winners of the Folk Art Society Awards of Distinction:

1989 - Howard Finster 1990 - Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr.   1991 - Robert Bishop (posthumously) 1992 - Seymour Rosen 1993 - Minnie Adkins, Dorothy and Sterling Strauser 1994 - Felipe and Leroy Archuleta, Warren and Sylvia Lowe 1995 - Ned Cartledge, Chuck and Jan Rosenak 1996 - Clyde Jones, Gerard Wertkin 1997 - Mr. Imagination (Gregory Warmack), Flo and Jules Laffal 1998 - Rev. Johnnie Hunter, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Marilyn Oshman 1999 - Linvel Barker, Lillian Barker (posthumously), Alan Jabbour 2000 - Ted Gordon, Bud Goldstone 2001 - Georgia Blizzard, Shirley Yancey, Peggy Baggett 2002 - Lorenzo Scott, Betty-Carol Sellen, John Smither (posthumously), Stephanie Smither 2003 - Ralph N. Lanning, Maude Southwell Wahlman 2004 - Artists of Creative Growth, Irene Ward Brydon, John Foster, Lee Kogan 2005 - Stanley Szwarc, Russell Bowman 2006 - Nicholas Herrera, Peter Cecere 2007 - Tim Lewis, Bill Glennon, Mary Bryan Hood, Marvin Finn (posthumously) 2008 - Malcah Zeldis, Rebecca Hoffberger 2009 - Purvis Young, Ruby Williams, Jack Beverland, Tom and Donna Brumfield, Lynne Browne, Randall Lott, Nancy McCall 2010 - Marcia Muth, Sabinita Lopez Ortiz, Susan Mitchell Crawley 2011 - Eldridge Bagley, Kathy Johnson Bowles and Ray Kass 2012 - William Arnett, Thornton Dial Sr. and Georgine Clarke (posthumously) 2013 - William Ferris, Bernard Herman, Roger Manley, Jenny Moore and Vollis Simpson (posthumously)

Folk Art Sites Worthy of Preservation and Protection
Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden, Summerville, Ga. Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village, Simi Valley, Calif. Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, Los Angeles, Calif. Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain, Niland, Calif. Miles Carpenter’s Home, Waverly, Va.   Nek Chand’s Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park, Wilson, N.C   Clyde Jones' Critter Crossing, Bynum, N.C.    Anderson Johnson Museum, Downing-Gross Cultural Center, Newport News, Va.  ==Merging into Longwood University== In 2014, The Folk Art Society of America announced that it was to be taken over by Longwood Center for the Visual Arts in Farmville, Virginia.