In the U.S., vernacular art — which can also be called folk art or outsider art — is dominated by the works of African American, Appalachian and working-class people. In many cases these ...

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Vernacular art is a genre of visual art made by artists who are usually self-taught. They tend to work outside of art academies and commercial galleries, which have traditionally been the purview ...