{"id":49101,"date":"2025-12-01T15:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49101\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:19:14","slug":"folk-art-lives-on-in-pennsylvania-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49101\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk art lives on in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Localish logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-localish.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, December 1, 2025 1:39PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Folk art lives on in Pennsylvania\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center is inviting visitors to explore these treasures through the Barn Star Art Tour in Kutztown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Kutztown, Pa &#8212; 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 careful &#8220;dab and wiggle&#8221; to reach every crevice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a not-so-distant past, barn stars and hex signs were iconic symbols of rural life in central Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Today, only a fraction remain, but a local cultural center is working to preserve and celebrate these vibrant pieces of American folk art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center is inviting visitors to explore these treasures through the Barn Star Art Tour in Kutztown.<br class=\" \"\/>The tours showcase dozens of decorated barns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Claypoole hopes to keep painting for decades, honoring his fathers legacy with every star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, December 1, 2025 1:39PM The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center is inviting visitors to explore these treasures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6889,28348,5298,28350,245,28349,6652,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-49101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-barn-stars","10":"tag-central-pennsylvania","11":"tag-eric-claypoole","12":"tag-evergreen","13":"tag-hex-signs","14":"tag-kutztown","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","17":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}