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K. JOHNSON BOWLES, former director of the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, is on an ACE Fellowship at St. Mary's College in Maryland.

Fertile Visions: Paintings by Marion Forgey Line

Lynne Browne, from Atlanta, is Senior Correspondent for the Folk Art Messenger.

High's Folk Art Curator Organizes Sudduth Exhibition

WAYNE COX directs a public policy research organization. He also documents, collects and writes about self-taught art. He and his wife, Myrene, live in Miami, Florida, and Port Maria, Jamaica. They were recently named by Art and Antiques Magazine to its list of the Top 100 Art Collectors in the United States.

Kevin Sampson: Memorial Maker

CAROL CROWN is the First Tennessee Professor of Art History at the University of Memphis.

Folk Art Scholarship Initiated

JOHN FOSTER, is an artist, graphic designer and the curator of Accidental Mysteries, a blog and traveling exhibition of vernacular photography.

Smudging the Edges: Folk Art Goes Commercial

BUD GOLDSTONE worked from 1955 to 1981 as an engineer for North American Aviation. From 1959 to his death in 2012, he volunteered as a conservation engineer for the preservation of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers, a National Historic Landmark in Los Angeles. In 1959, he ran a controlled scientific proof-load test and stress analysis on the Watts Towers that proved them to be stable and prevented the city from demolishing them. He wrote the proposal for a $1,900,000 grant from FEMA to repair earthquake damage to Watts Towers and also a $485,000 grant to repair earthquake damage to the California State Landmark, Bottle Village, in Simi Valley. With his wife, Arloa Paquin Goldstone, he was the author of The Los Angeles Watts Towers, published by the J. Paul Getty Foundation in 1997. You can see a full obituary in The Folk Art Messenger #82.

Las Pozas: A Conservator's Nightmare

The late JEFFREY HAYES was professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

STEPHEN P. HUYLER, Ph.D., is an art historian, cultural anthropologist, photographer and author. His book, Daughters of India: Art and Identity (2008) was reviewed in The Folk Art Messenger, Winter 2008.

Reinventing Reality: The Art of Sonabai Rajawar

RAY KASS is a nationally recognized artist and a professor emeritus of studio art at Virginia Tech. The founder and director of the Mountain Lake Workshop at Virginia Tech, he produced workshops for Howard Finster (1985), John Cage, Jiro Okura, Stephen Addiss, James De La Varga and Merce Cunningham, among others. He is the author many publications, including John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures (2009), The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete Watercolors (2011) and Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner Eye (1983). His future plans include a retrospective exhibition of the work of the Virginia artist Georgia Blizzard, with Lee Kogan as co-curator. He a founding board member of the Folk Art Society of America.

Martin Johnson’s “ForInstance”

MINHAZZ MAJUMDAR is a writer and designer engaged in the documentation and promotion of folk art and craft forms in India. For more than a decade, she has been working with artists and craft communities across India, presenting India’s finest traditional practitioners to audiences worldwide.

The Inner Eye: The Art of Ganesh Jogi and Teju Ben

WILLIAM OPPENHIMER is a retired obstetrician/gynecologist and a member of the FASA Board of Directors.

ANN OPPENHIMER is President of The Folk Art Society of America.

ANN OPPENHIMER is the President of the Folk Art Society of America

The late TONY RAJER was an art conservator, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a member of the FASA's National Advisory Board.

MICHAEL RYMER is a writer who lives in New York.

The Dutch Artists of Herenplaats

JAMES SELLMAN and his wife Barbara have been traveling throughout the world collecting art for more than 35 years and have been members of the Folk Art Society of America for 22 years. They have donated more than 200 pieces of traditional African art to Richmond's Virginia Union University, and they have made significant gifts of drawings and paintings by Thornton Dial to that and other American institutions. The Sellmans have spent the past 25 years supporting African American artists, exhibitions and other academic projects. Since 1978, Sellman has served on the Clinical Faculty of the Medical College of Virginia-VCU Medical School. In 2001, he was recognized by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill as one of the 35 outstanding psychiatrists in America.

Truth and Consequences: The 25-Year Friendship of Thornton Dial and Bill Arnett

CAROL MILLSOM STUDER recently retired as professor of child development and education at New York University.

The late VICTOR STUDER was director of tea research at Thomas J. Lipton Co., and a member of the Folk Art Society's National Advisory Board.

Ted Ludwiczak's Easter Island on the Hudson

PETER SZOK is associate professor of history at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.

KENNETH WALKER is a folk art collector in Silver Spring, Md.

Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park Planned