The practice of folk art in Nova Scotia is no accident of history. Rather Nova Scotia s relationship with folk art emerged in tandem with developments in Canadian cultural policy that helped to shape not only the history of art institutions across the province between 1967 and 1997. Erin Morton examines the emergence of folk art in late twentieth-century Nova Scotia by paying attention to the ways in which a conceptual category took concrete, material form. New archival research places the phenomenon of folk art within histories of cultural and economic development in the province under late...

The practice of folk art in Nova Scotia is no accident of history. Rather Nova Scotia s relationship with folk art emerged in tandem with developments in Canadian cultural policy that helped to shape not only the history of art institutions across the province between 1967 and 1997. Erin Morton examines the emergence of folk art in late twentieth-century Nova Scotia by paying attention to the ways in which a conceptual category took concrete, material form. New archival research places the phenomenon of folk art within histories of cultural and economic development in the province under late...