

Her textiles have been shown at more than 100 exhibits throughout the United States. She weaves wall hangings using complex weave structures. Philis Alvic is an artist/weaver and writer who maintains a studio in Lexington, Ky. Johnnie Simmons, Vollis Simpson, William Thomas Thompson, Della Wells, and LaVon Williams.

Samuels, Cher Shaffer, Gabriel Shaffer, Rev. Cromer, John "Johnnie" Culver, Eric Cunningham, Bruce Davenport, Brian Dowdall, Winton and Rosa Eugene, Sam Ezell, Patti Fenick, Theresa Gloster, Edna Hackett, Eddie Hamrick, Eddie Hayes, Chris Hubbard, Clyde Jones, Stacy Lambert, Paul Lancaster, Arbon Lane, Jr., Eric Legge, Juanita Leonard, Tim Lewis, Peter Loose, Denny Maloney, Sam "The Dot Man" McMillan, Kessiah Freeman Meroney, Roy Minshew, Bruce New, Ashley Pierce, Sarah Rakes, Joe Reinhardt, Kathy Richards, Harold Rittenberry, Robert Roberg, O. Artists featured in the collection include: Ab the Flagman (Roger Lee Ivens), Minnie Adkins, John "Cornbread" Anderson, Michael Brien, Tammy Leigh Brooks, Benny Carter, Neolia "Nell" Cole, J. Materials document African American and white artists from Kentucky, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Videos were recorded digitally by the Allens over a 10- to 15-year period. Margaret Day Allen authored When the Spirit Speaks: Self-Taught Art of the South. Video interviews, photographs, articles, and book chapters about self-taught/folk artists created by Margaret Day Allen and Robert John Allen, former members of the Folk Art Society of America's National Advisory Board and past presidents of the North Carolina Folk Art Society.
