Episode 41 | Inside the Folk Art Underground: Mike Smith on Folk Art Legends and Lost Stories

Podcast: House of Folk Art · Matt Ledbetter

Opublikowano: 2025-10-13

Matt and Mike Smith sit down inside the Griffith Fine Art Museum at Red Oak Brewery to talk about the wild early days of Southern folk art and the collectors who helped define it. What begins as a casual visit quickly turns into a deep dive into Mike’s decades-long journey from salesman to documentarian, capturing the rise of self-taught art across the Southeast. Mike shares how he met artists like Benny Carter, James Harold Jennings, and Howard Finster, and what it was like to ride with Carter through the backroads of North Carolina with a revolver on...