“Howard was like a combination of Billy Graham and Mr. Rogers,” muses Larry Schlachter. “With a bit of Bob Vila, the home improvement guy, thrown in.” Schlachter—tall, 72, serendipitous purveyor of ...

Location: Howard Finster's Paradise Garden, 200 North Lewis Street Summerville, GA 30747 Dates: September 21 and 22, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Tickets: Buy tickets here or call ...

Howard Finster, a Baptist preacher turned self-taught artist, was sometimes called "the grandfather of Southern Folk Art" or "the Andy Warhol of the South." The best way to understand the late ...

In 2023, when D. Patton White and his company Beacon Dance performed at a Buckhead home during a private event for the Paradise Garden Foundation — the organization that operates and preserves artist ...

"The Reverend Howard Finster (1916-2001) was called the 'backwoods William Blake' and the 'Andy Warhol of the South,' and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art ...

The John F. Turner collection of research material on visionary self-taught artist Howard Finster measures 6.9 linear feet and dates from circa 1928 to 2015, with the bulk of the materials dating from ...

As my husband drove along the bumpy residential road to Paradise Gardens, it didn’t feel like we were headed in the right direction. I wasn't sure what I was looking for, but this quiet neighborhood ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Folk artist Howard Finster's World's Folk Art Church is shown in his Paradise Gardens in Pennville, Ga., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. The church, where he held hundreds of weddings and other events is ...