FolkArtwork and Friends
FolkArtwork and Friends
Adam Oestreich
04: Jennifer Gilbert + Shinichi Sawada
1 hour 14 minutes Posted Dec 5, 2025 at 6:05 am.
Meet Naina Kalu
Jennifer Gilbert on Outsider Art
Shinichi Sawada at the Outsider Art Fair
How to Talk to an Artist With a Disability
Working on a Graphic Design degree
Philip Glass on His Second Home
Curating Look Here: 30 Progressive Art Studios Across America
The Unlocking the Outsider Art Fair
The Art of Being Able to See
Interview
The Secret Life of Art Collectors
A Conversation With Shinichi Sawada
Shinichi Sawada's Discerning Work
Soada's work as an autistic artist
The Japanese ceramicist's
Meet Naina Kalu, the Turner Prize
Shinichi Sawada's Sculptural Creatures
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In the fourth episode of FolkArtwork and Friends, a longtime friend and champion of self-taught, disabled, and overlooked artists from around the world joins me -- Jennifer Gilbert of Jennlifer Lauren Gallery in Manchester. Jennifer shares her background and her work as a curator and advocate for inclusive art, from studying graphic design to discovering outsider art through her work with artists with schizophrenia, as well as curating her recent exhibit "Look Everywhere" with the artists whose work made up the brilliant show. All that, and more, including her outsider art collection series, what galleries and museums can do to be more inclusive, and meeting the one and only Shinichi Sawada.
Plus, a look into the life and work of Japanese ceramicist Shinichi Sawada, who spent almost two decades baking bread in his mornings and creating out-of-this-world clay creatures in the afternoon -- all on the side of a mountain, firing his creations in a traditional wood fire oven, and becoming an internationally renowned artist. 
Follow Jennifer on Instagram at @j_lgallery and check out her collector series interviews and learn more about her work here: http://jenniferlaurengallery.com/
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Visit folkartwork.art to shop self-taught art by emerging contemporary artists
AND if you are in the Des Moines area, come to the Mainframe Studios "First Friday" event on December 5th from 5pm-8pm to see me hanging out with Ashley Mary in her beautiful studio and selling artwork for my friends self-taught artist Reneesha Mccoy and Canadian folk artist Jackie Bradshaw.