Beauvais Lyons | The Conversation
Beauvais Lyons is Chancellor’s Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee.
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In the U.S., vernacular art — which can also be called folk art or outsider art — is dominated by the works of African American, Appalachian and working-class people. In many cases these artists took up making paintings, sculptures, quilts or textiles outside of a day job, or later in life.
