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Article: Magic realism - Winners of the Herald's Folk Art contest create beauty out of the everyday.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- August 8, 2001
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In the whimsical world of a folk artist, a pumpkin stem can make a little girl feel beautiful, and an early morning visit to Maine can conjure images of carved wood.
Hard to imagine? Just take a look at the winning entries in our Folk Art Contest.
Inspired by the Museum of Fine Arts' recent American Folk exhibit, which featured folk art from the 18th and 19th centuries, we sent out a call for simple decorative works handcrafted by ordinary people, untrained in the arts.
The response from readers proves that modern-day folk artists are hard at work sculpting, building, sewing and painting artistic records of our time.
In all, 26 ...