Local fans of Howard Finster, the legendary Baptist preacher-turned-folk artist responsible for more than 46,000 works over a 25-year painting career, used to have to trek all the way to Georgia to ...

SUMMERVILLE, GA, August 23, 2024 (EZ Newswire) -- Howard Finster's Paradise Garden hosts its annual two-day art festival, Finster Fest, on September 21–22 in Summerville, Georgia in historic Paradise ...

In 2023, when D. Patton White and his company Beacon Dance performed at a Buckhead home during a private event for the Paradise Garden Foundation — the organization that operates and preserves artist ...

If William Blake had been born on northeast Alabama, he might have looked a lot like Howard Finster - artist, musician, a man who identified himself as "not of this world." Finster created Paradise ...

Finster Fest is no ordinary art festival. Yes, there will be an artist market, live music, a children’s activity area and food vendors. But it becomes clear when talking to both organizers and ...

I’m inside the brain of Howard Finster, self-taught sacred artist and self-described “man of visions.” It’s an alternative universe, where clouds see, angels roam, spaceships zoom, science-fiction ...

The Rev. Howard Finster -- a folk artist who created sermons in paint that were featured on the covers of rock albums and in galleries worldwide -- died yesterday (Oct. 22) of congestive heart… By ...

As my husband drove along the bumpy residential road to Paradise Gardens, it didn’t feel like we were headed in the right direction. I wasn't sure what I was looking for, but this quiet neighborhood ...

The Rev. Howard Finster, a Baptist preacher turned folk artist who called his crudely drawn, brightly colored artworks “sermons in paint,” died Monday at a medical center in Rome, Ga.--near his rural ...

Within your own backyard lies adventure that will transport you to a place that feels miles from home. So leave your passport behind and start exploring The Nearest Faraway Place. The South is a ...