I will be out of town for 9 days (between March 13th and 22nd), and so will not be shipping or open for visitors at the gallery.   The Indigo Arts website will be active as always, I will respond to emails, and I will be able to ship orders after March 23, 2023.  

Note:  With the high cost of shipping many of our customers have chosen to ship by USPS.   For small and light shipments this is usually less expensive, but please be aware that the service is not always as economical as it may appear.    USPS estimates only include insurance up to $100 for its domestic shipments, and varying amounts for overseas shipments.  If you ask for full insurance we will send you an invoice for any difference in cost. 

News

Gurupada Chitrakar in Santa Fe, 2006

Gurupada Chitrakar is Gone

Gurupada Chitrakar, one of the finest West Bengal scroll painters of his generation passed away on June 29, 2021,  as the delta variant of the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged India.

Carlos Garcia Huergo

Film about Carlos Garcia Huergo

News of an artist featured in our 

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

Black Lives Matter

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.  

Hand-drawn Shipibo Cloth (SHPC-73)

Working from Home!

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

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

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.

"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

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

Belgian Congo Colony, 1940s–1960

Press on Indigo Arts at the NY Outsider Art Fair

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

Kamante Gatura

NY Outsider Art Fair 2020

Join the Stampede!

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

Gerard Fortuné (Photo:  Paolo WOODS, 2011)

Gerard Fortuné (1924* - 2019)

I was sad to learn the news that Gerard Fortuné, the playful, prolific and much loved Haitian 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.