last weekend I went to the
Kentuck Festival of the Arts in Tuscaloosa, a folk art festival that occurs every year. My camera battery was dead, but I pulled a sampling of some of the work from their website. I really liked a lot of it. Some of it, we were discussing, felt like the artists were just trying to copy
Howard Finster (see more
here) instead of doing what came naturally...lots of angels in his style, etc. But overall there was really good work, and great exposure for lots of local artists.