Lisa Molendini led a Dutch hex sign painting workshop on Tuesday at Alternative Alchemist, Hazle Twp. The Pennsylvania Dutch tradition of creating colorful round hex signs to adorn their barns and ...

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 ...

A live hex sign painting was a new addition to this year’s Kutztown Folk Festival. Standing on a ladder 12 feet in the air, hex sign painter Patrick Donmoyer, Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage ...

Bill Schuster began painting Pennsylvania Dutch symbols on toy chests for his children. He didn’t know what the tulips and birds and stars symbolized, but he wasintrigued by their simple beauty. Then ...

Renowned folk artist Johnny Claypoole, a master painter of Pennsylvania German hex signs, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, a family spokesman confirmed.

READING — Eric Claypoole has been around hex signs since he was 5 years old, but there's one question he still can't answer: Why do the Pennsylvania Dutch paint hex signs on their barns? Claypoole, 47 ...

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 ...

Dr. Alfred L. Shoemaker, celebrated authority on Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs, noted these (hex signs) folk art symbols were found locally on Christian made fraktur birth and baptismal certificates ...

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