Career folk artists are creators who engage in folk art to make a living.They are already separated, or semi-separated, from farmland work. Career folk artist is sti 1 part of the aborer comnmnity; however, their art is no longer for self service, but a service for social life. Outstanding rural female artists who still engage in farmland work are not career folk artists. Their excellent achievement in art work has earned them, along with career folk artists, praises from the society as folk artists or masters of folk art. However, they are still not
career folk artists.
