Everything Sucks Club: A Lesson On Early American Folk Art & Craft

How the emergence of the middle class in America after the Revolutionary War concluded in 1783 led to an entire genre of art.

Folk Art & Craft comes from any society’s different forms of visual arts as a response to its culture, customs, music, dance, or lore. It exists in every region around the world and is often found in and on very utilitarian (or everyday) objects. Folk Art tends to focus or classify things more in the traditional sense of paintings, drawings, clay/potte…