Fraktur is an 18th-century German script with a medieval feeling about it. Fraktur is also the word for folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, who used the German script in text that appeared on their furniture, religious certificates, poems, and paintings—highly decorative pieces that saw surfaces covered with vines, birds, flowers, angels, and the elaborate typeface. This exhibition in Portland combines a selection of these stunning works with contemporary art that draws on, or speaks to, the fraktur tradition. —Laura Jacobs