St. Louis's two wooden confessionals (confessions are heard in seven languages), painted a plain penitential brown, are reminiscent of the best of ingenuous folk sculpture.

There will also be several 15-lecture programs, including American art from the 1950's to the present (Sept. 13) and folk sculpture (Sept. 14).

While Ms. Saar often alludes to the blocky forms of folk sculpture, her work is full of tacit references to "high art."

"They are the earliest American folk-art form," he said recently, "extraordinary examples of American folk sculpture."

Something like Jojo, for example, a three-foot-tall piece of folk sculpture, set on a three-foot pedestal, that adorns one corner of Ms. Johnson's office.

The Podlaskie Trade Fairs of folk sculpture, double warp textiles and folk smithing (September)

He documented old religious architecture and sculpture in crumbling churches and overgrown cemeteries, as well as contemporary examples of Lithuanian folk sculpture.

Day's architectural carvings, especially his sinuous newel posts and ornamental mantels, border on folk sculpture.

The Władysław Orkan Museum, housed in a 17th-century larch-wood former church, includes a collection of folk sculpture and paintings on glass.

Unlike folk paintings, furniture, needlework and quilts, folk sculpture - like cigar store Indians, carousel figures and weather vanes - tends to be made for public settings.