| Cypress woodcarver Leslie McKee | Cypress woodcarver Leslie McKee | Still Image | Carvers (Decorative artists)
Wood carvers
Fieldwork
Cypress
Wood carving
Decorative arts
Woodworking tools
Art
Figurines
Selling
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cypress woodcarver Leslie McKee
- Date
- 1984-11
- Description
- Nine color slides. From Ohio, McKee makes carvings from cypress knees. Images created as fieldwork for the apprenticeship program. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| Evelyn Coskey demonstrating Polish egg decoration (pysanky) | Evelyn Coskey demonstrating Polish egg decoration (pysanky) | Still Image | Fieldwork
Art
Artists
Decorative arts
Craft
Easter eggs
Eggs
Egg decoration
Painting
Design
Holidays
Pysanky
Polish Americans
Librarians
Artisans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Evelyn Coskey demonstrating Polish egg decoration (pysanky)
- Date
- 1988-06
- Description
- Twenty-five color slides. Pysanky (East European egg decration)is created when patterns are drawn on eggs with wax, which then protects the covered areas from the dye that is applied. By repeating this process with different colors of dye, a multi-colored pattern is built up. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| Florida Folk Arts exhibit at the Coconut Grove Bank | Florida Folk Arts exhibit at the Coconut Grove Bank | Still Image | Exhibits
Demonstrations
Folklife
Folklore collections
Banks and banking
Financial institution
Material culture
Wood carving
Art
Artifacts
Teaching of folklore
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Florida Heritage Award Winner Mario Sanchez | Florida Heritage Award Winner Mario Sanchez | Still Image | Material culture
Painting
Art
Artisans
Awards
Bas-relief
Painters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Florida Heritage Award Winner Mario Sanchez
- Date
- Description
- Contact sheet with 27 black and white images. Only 14 images of Mario Sanchez, a bas-relief painter who won the Florida Heritage Award in 1991. Sanchez was well-known for his paintings of Ybor City. The other images are of Key Biscayne's Scottish agems, and sculptor Richard Blaes.
- Collection
| Florida Heritage Award winner Mario Sanchez | Florida Heritage Award winner Mario Sanchez | Still Image | Decorative arts
Painting
Latinos
Art
Awards
Painters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (raw footage) | Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (raw footage) | Moving Image | Painters
Television
Family history
Storytelling
Performing arts
Oral performance
Jokes
Humor
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Occupational folklore
Railroad work
Loggers
Logging
Decorative arts
Art
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Yesterday: Untitled episode (raw footage)
- Date
- 1977-01-13
- Description
- One video cassette. (3/4" tape; 47 minutes) Raw footage featuring Frog Smith sitting in a chair near a canal, discussing his family history. Displays one of his paintings, depicting the railroad in Levy County from 1911.
- Collection
| Frog Smith painting of the Florida Folk Festival | Frog Smith painting of the Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Artists
Painters
Painting
Art
Folk festivals
Decorative arts
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Frog Smith painting of the Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- Description
- One color print. Image of Smith's painting the Florida Folk Festival's main stage, with several well known performers represenetd including Thelma Boltin and Curly Dekle. Also shows a string band, and a square deance troupe.
- Collection
| Frog Smith painting: On Our Way to Church, 1919 | Frog Smith painting: On Our Way to Church, 1919 | Still Image | Artists
Painters
Painting
Art
Wagons
Decorative arts
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Graffiti in an abandoned church | Graffiti in an abandoned church | Still Image | Fieldwork
Graffiti
Street art
Art
Decorative arts
Concrete walls
Church buildings
Churches
Architecture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Graffiti in an abandoned church
- Date
- 1987-01-08
- Description
- Forty color slides. The name of the church was Bethelehem Baptist Church, an abandoned African American church. Images are very dark and difficult to see. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
- Collection
| Graffiti in Jacksonville Beach | Graffiti in Jacksonville Beach | Still Image | Fieldwork
Graffiti
Written tradition
Speech play
Writing
Obscenity
Art
Street art
Walls
Concrete walls | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Graffiti in Jacksonville Beach
- Date
- 1990-06
- Description
- Seventeen color slides. The graffiti was found on 1st and 18th streets in Jacksonville Beach. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
Listen: The Assorted Selections Program