Kentuck Festival

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.

I really like the work by the third artist shown here, Paul Andrews. He used photos on transparent film with pieces of fabric and other mixed media...very specific compositions created with very minimal materials...showing the upper body of a bird as a photo on a transparency, and creating the tail with a fabric swatch positioned in a specific way.