About the Magazine

doo-nanny.com is an independent American magazine about folk, outsider and visionary art, grassroots festivals, roots music and do-it-yourself film. It explains what the words mean, where to see the work, how festivals and art fairs run and how people make music and films with what they have.

Explainers are checked against primary sources: museums and foundations that care for art environments, festival and platform rules, state encyclopedias and reference works. Sources are listed under each article, and facts that change, such as fees, opening hours and deadlines, point readers to the official source.

The domain began as the website of the Doo-Nanny, a folk art festival in Alabama. Its pages are kept in the festival archive; the magazine is not affiliated with the festival or its organisers.

Partner material is labelled and kept apart from the editorial sections, in Culture of Chance and Partner posts. Photographs are freely licensed and credited under each picture; the list is on the photo credits page.