A Folk Perspective
Aug 16 - Sept 20 2025
This exhibition gathers regional and local artists whose work is shaped by place, story, and material, where folk is less a label than a posture: a way of seeing, of creating, of belonging. Here, making is intuitive, memory-laden: whether it’s the trace of a bird in flight, wood carved with familiarity, or works that lyrically layer technique with intuition and experimentation.
Here contemporary and folk art is held loosely, it shifts and unfolds. Opening space for encounter, inviting conversation between memory and invention, community and abstraction. It asks where the line emerges distinctly between folk art and contemporary art, and where they may share a common location, tradition, or faith in the relationship between artist and material form.
Self-proclaimed folk artist Abe Odenina describes the folk genre as being perhaps one of the most generous categories, “It covers all my interests, and suggests a healthy relationship with history and with community.” So then, this was the initial inspiration for the exhibition A Folk Perspective, to consider what sets it, us, apart, as well as what brings us together.
Featured Artists
Kaleb Knowles
Mike Holsomback
Clay Aldridge
Rick Sanders
Danyelle Woods
Steve Griffin
Joshua Williams
Caleigh Bird
Michael Caruso
Jessica Collins
Anna Ogle
