Adam Oestreich is a high school art history teacher and the curator of self-taught, outsider and folk art on the @folkartwork Instagram account as well as the “This Week in Outsider Art” newsletter on Substack. When he is not teaching or scouring the internet for worlds best art he’s chasing his two young children around the house.
Polina Raiko, The Self-Taught Folk Artist Who Turned Tragedy to Triumph
In 1998, for the first time ever, Polina Raiko (1928-2004), a 69-year-old woman who had spent almost her entire life as a wife, mother, and farmer,...
Adam Oestreich 20 March 2024
13 Black Folk Artists from the American South
The thirteen self-taught artists below, from Bill Traylor to Nellie Mae Rowe, Thornton Dial to Mary T. Smith among others, created some of the most...
Adam Oestreich 19 February 2024
Norval Morrisseau, The Picasso of the North
The Picasso of the North, as he was known throughout Europe; Copper Thunderbird, as he was known in the Anishinaabe region of Canada. Whatever...
Adam Oestreich 15 January 2024