Description: Main Street Gallery in Clayton, GA features southern folk / outsider art for sale, paintings, sculpture and more. Purchase our artwork online!
Our gallery specializes in contemporary folk art , also known as self-taught or outsider art. We also feature Southern folk pottery , fine art , and hand-crafted furniture . In our gift section, we offer handmade jewelry, unusual accessories, and other unique items. It is the kind of place where many have stopped in for a few minutes, only to lose themselves in our carefully curated selection, emerging a few hours later with something utterly surprising.
In the early discovery stages of this expressive and often quirky art of the individual, it was simply referred to as “folk art.” “Folk art” however, was also the term used to describe traditional crafts such as pottery, quilting, and other handicrafts passed down through the generations. As a result, an acceptable alternative name has been sought for quite some time, but to this day, the discussion continues.
“Self-taught,” comes close to an acceptable term, but untutored-in-art is only part of the equation and does not address other important characteristics.