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“These few hundred club members had an enormous impact on our culture at large by their mere existence, and they also created a unique and peculiarly American folk-art movement with their custom motorcycles,” D’Orleans said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2021

It is appointed with broken-in chairs and couches, an impressive folk-art collection, and has an extra bedroom, to accommodate visits from their four grandchildren.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2019

With her colorful, exuberant folk-art illustrations and upbeat, friendly tone, Rashin makes a daunting cross-cultural leap seem as easy as a summer breeze.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2018

The Dead, in particular, have benefited from a newly rehabilitated reputation, where memories of the group’s slow and tedious ’80s gigs have been displaced by a hipper narrative of pioneering psychedelia and folk-art.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2018

But it is not so difficult to extract from the cycle the original simpler one—or at least to get together a cycle which has the simplicity, the sincerity, and the objectivity of genuine folk-art.

From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander