Indigenous North Americans have continuously made important contributions to the field of art in the U.S. and Canada, yet have been severely under-recognized an

This encyclopedia is a biographical dictionary of some 1,000 women artists of the American West. The product of a twenty-year, coast-to-coast research project b

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a

"Details how Native American culture evolved, the artifacts produced on the continent and the ways they were made, and the techniques of decoration and embellis