The feverishly productive painter who designed Rolling Stone magazine’s 1985 album cover of the year was also a modern-day mystic whose studio and “sculpture garden” (featured heavily in the music ...

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 ...

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 ...

He remains one of the most famous self-taught, do-it-yourself folk artists, who inadvertently created a mecca by filling his Paradise Garden with tens of thousands of his creations. Each year, fans of ...

There's a moment during Howard Finster's 1983 appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson — after his open-armed entrance and the "I never dreamed of being on your show" small talk — when the ...

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 ...

10 a.m.-6 p.m. May 30 and noon-6 p.m. May 31. Free. Dowdy Park, intersection of U.S. 27 and University Street, Summerville. Fifty artists, many self-taught, will show and sell their work. Music both ...

Howard Finster's Paradise Garden will host its annual Finster Fest art and music extravaganza Memorial Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26, in Summerville, in Historic Paradise Garden.

Third Bridge, the global expert network and research provider, has announced a new collaboration with Finster AI, the ...