Over the last year the Indigo Arts website has remained active despite the widespread shutdowns due to the COVID-19 virus.   Under current rules I have been able to resume operations but must limit visitors to the gallery, by appointment only.   I am able to pack and ship most orders within a few days.   Shipping times have increased during this period.  

Note:  USPS has been so slow that we still recommend avoiding it entirely, at least for the present.  Parcels sent by 2 or 3 Day Priority Mail can take 2 to 4 weeks to arrive.
Please stay safe in these difficult times.  
We wish you all a healthier, saner and more civil 2021.

News

Carlos Garcia Huergo

Film about Carlos Garcia Huergo

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Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - 12:00am

News of an artist featured in our 

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The Slave Ship Brooks - Frantz Zephirin (Haiti, 2007), courtesy of Marcus Rediker

Black Lives Matter

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Friday, June 19, 2020 - 2:13pm

This month I am not featuring any art that is for sale at Indigo Arts or noting museum and gallery shows of interest to me.  

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Hand-drawn Shipibo Cloth (SHPC-73)

Working from Home!

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Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 12:00am

Philadelphia has had a "Stay at Home" order since March 23rd, due to the COVID-19 virus.

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Guyodo in the ruins of the Atis Rezistans community, March 2020.

Catastrophic fire in the "Grand Rue" Artists' Community in Haiti - and now COVID-19

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Saturday, March 21, 2020 - 12:00am

With all the hardship and tragedy in the world right now, with the spread of the COVID-19 virus,  I will mention one tragedy, because most of you will not have heard of it, and it impacts several of our artists in Haiti.

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"Extra O" sign c. 1990s Kumasi, Ghana oil and/or acrylic paint, wood panel Courtesy of Anthony Fisher – Indigo Arts Gallery

Extra 'O' African Barbershop and Hairdressing Signs at SFO Museum

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Sunday, March 15, 2020 - 1:00am

Extra 'O' African Barbershop and Hairdressing Signs

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Child in the Land of the Ancestors, date unknown, by Barbara Bullock (Courtesy of the artist)

Africa in the Arts of Philadelphia: Bullock, Searles, and Twins Seven-Seven at Woodmere Art Museum

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Sunday, March 15, 2020 - 12:00am

Africa in the Arts of Philadelphia: Bullock, Searles, and Twins Seven-Seven

Woodmere Art Museum - Philadelphia, PA

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Belgian Congo Colony, 1940s–1960

Press on Indigo Arts at the NY Outsider Art Fair

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Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 12:00am

This year's NY Outsider Art Fair received extensive and lavish Press coverage.  We were pleased to get top billing in several stories:

Outsider Art Rings in New York’s Fair Season

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Kamante Gatura

NY Outsider Art Fair 2020

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Friday, January 10, 2020 - 12:00am

Join the Stampede!

Please visit us in New York at the 2020 Outsider Art Fair

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Gerard Fortuné (Photo: Paolo WOODS, 2011)

Gerard Fortuné (1924* - 2019)

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Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 12:00am

I was sad to learn the news that Gerard Fortuné, the playful, prolific and much loved Haitain naif artist passed away on December 8th, 2019.  I have heard several dates cited for Gerard's birth, - 1933, 1925, and according to the obituary below from Le Centre d'Art, 1924.

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You Call It Craft, I Call It Art - New York Times Features Artist Leandro Gomez Quintero

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Friday, August 30, 2019 - 12:00am

A recent article in the New York Times profiles a variety of the artists exhibiting this last July at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe.  The story looked at folk artists from Borneo, Cuba, India, Mexico and Peru.

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