KUTZTOWN, Pa. - For one local artist, creating art is not just a job but an adventure he shares with people every year at the Kutztown Folk Festival. "I paint Hex signs and I paint barn stars," said ...

The Kutztown Folk Festival is holding a Dutch Hex Sign Bike Tour on Oct. 14 starting at 10 a.m. Participants will meet at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, 22 Luckenbill Road, Kutztown ...

Wapwallopen resident and retired art teacher Ivan E. Hoyt was honored June 29 by the Kutztown Folk Festival and the Borough of Kutztown for 39 years of participating as a demonstrating craftsman at ...

KUTZTOWN, Pa. - Organizers are hoping the weather cooperates for the triumphant return of one of the most anticipated festivals in our area. The 73rd Kutztown Folk Festival is finally back in all its ...

One hex sign researcher is Patrick Donmoyer, a building conservator and exhibit specialist at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University, whose library contains hex-sign ...

Kutztown, Pa -- Eric Claypoole has painted more than 100 barns, a craft he began as a child alongside his father, the late barn star legend Johnny Claypoole. Each brushstroke, he says, requires a ...

It was in her late 20s when Rachel Yoder realized she didn’t know much about her heritage. She yearned to feel connected to her roots, and for Yoder, art was a natural way to do so. “It was my ...