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Back to SearchEpisode 55 | Riding Out to Liberty with Matt Ledbetter
Episode 55
Matt Ledbetter sits down before heading out to Liberty, North Carolina to set up Wade's tent for the last Liberty Antique show.
Held twice a year in R…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 54 | What Matt Bought at the Catawba Valley Pottery Festival
Episode 54
Matt Ledbetter and Kyle sit down with a table full of pieces from the Catawba Valley Pottery Festival and break down what they picked up over the wee…
5 months ago
Episode 53 | 10 Picks Inside a 15,000 Sq Ft Folk Art Warehouse
Episode 53
In this episode of House of Folk Art, Matt Ledbetter and Kyle walk through the newly expanded Ledbetter warehouse and put it to use right away. With …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 52 | Are Quilts Folk Art? Collecting Antique American Quilts with Laura Saville
Episode 52
In this episode of House of Folk Art, Matt Ledbetter sits down with longtime friend and antique dealer Laura Saville for a full conversation on antiq…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 51 | Mary Proctor: Called to Paint
Episode 51
In January of 1994, Mary Proctor lost her grandmother, her uncle, and her aunt in a mobile home fire. The grandmother who raised her, the woman she c…
6 months, 1 week ago
Episode 50 | Rare 1990s Folk Art Footage from Tom Wells
Episode 50
Before museums and collectors caught on, Tom Wells was documenting Southern folk artists on VHS in the early 1990s.
In this episode, Matt Ledbetter si…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 49 | From Football to Folk Art
Episode 49
Matt Ledbetter talks with Julian-Sherrod Summers, also known as Red Sanford, about how their shared background in football quietly ran alongside a gr…
7 months, 1 week ago
Episode 48 | What Real Picking Looked Like Before the Internet
Episode 48
In this episode, Wade Ledbetter sits down with Matt to talk through what real picking looked like before the internet changed the landscape. Long bef…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 47 | Always Buying Always Selling: Life as a Full-Time Antique Dealer with Laura Saville
Episode 47
In this episode of House of Folk Art, Matt Ledbetter sits down with longtime friend and full-time antique dealer Laura Saville for a wide-ranging, ho…
8 months, 1 week ago
Episode 46 | Unboxing Folk Art Pottery and Remembering Folk Artists
Episode 46
Mike Smith joins Matt in the gallery with several pieces of folk art pottery headed for the next auction, opening boxes and walking through each form…
8 months, 3 weeks ago