Blogpost by Lisa Piper (one of the owners of the collection)……. I’ve often wondered where the term Outsider Art begins and where it ends. Can it be used for cooking where food and images collide in experimental new ways? Chefs are not trained as visual artists, but what they come out with is miraculous like this […]
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Small Museum Grand Opening is finally here! Sept 25 4pm – 6:30pm
Photography by Jessica Key of NOIR Photo. Folk art lovers will get a new venue this fall when doors open at The Small Museum of Folk Art in historic downtown Pittsboro, NC! Over the last two years, Dave Clark and Lisa Piper, owners of Small B&B Cafe, have worked with a group of dedicated volunteers […]
Collector’s folk art finds home in Pittsboro (Raleigh News & Observer)
PITTSBORO Jim Massey spent decades collecting folk art: R.A. Miller’s metal cutouts, Clyde Jones’ chainsaw-hewn critters, Sam “The Dot Man” McMillan’s spotted furniture, Jimmy Lee Suddeth’s mud finger paintings and Howard Finster’s self-portraits. For years, Massey showed his collection to visitors to his Moncure daylily farm during its annual summer sales weekends. He even converted […]
Objects and Memories, Museums and Inspiration
“The women . . . put different colored bottles, broken glass and sea-shells all around the grave of Aunt Dicey. In that way they showed their love for her.” William Faulkner, The Day When the Animals Talked Even if you don’t call yourself a “collector,” you do inevitably collect things. Often random, everyday things—think of […]
A Newby’s Experience of Clydefest 2015
You don’t have to have lived for a long time in the Triangle area of North Carolina before you see a “critter,” maybe at your favorite restaurant, at the North Carolina Museum of Art, or even in a neighbor’s front yard, and begin to hear parts of the story of Clyde Jones. Clyde, […]
Folk art fans plan museum (Raleigh News & Observer)
PITTSBORO It is Tuesday, and Pittsboro’s Small B&B Café is closed. But owners Lisa Piper and Dave Clark are not at rest. They are on the prowl for used windows for a new building they hope to begin constructing this spring on the corner of Small and East streets, the future home of the Small […]
New folk art museum working to come to Pittsboro (INDY Week)
Things will be stirring in the local art world this spring. As the North Carolina Museum of Art embarks on a major renovation, a mom-and-pop business in Pittsboro hopes to break ground on a new folk and outsider art museum. It’s an exciting prospect for an area whose rich artisanal tradition predates its fine-arts pedigree. […]
