| a_s1576_t92-007 | Ann Yao playing a zheng at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Performances
Music performance
Arts, Asian
Songs
Singing
Musical ensembles
Asian American arts
Asian Americans
String instruments
Arts, Chinese
Zheng
Zither
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Ann Yao playing a zheng at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)
- Date
- 1992-05-22
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Ernie Williams served as emcee. The Zheng is a Chinese zither, dating back to the third century BC. Yao was born in Shanghai to a musical family. In 1990 she moved to Florida, and worked with the Florida Folklife Program's apprenticeship program.
- Collection
| Ann Yao playing the Chinese zither (zheng) | Ann Yao playing the Chinese zither (zheng) | Still Image | Fieldwork
Zither
Zheng
Musical instruments
String instruments
Arts, Asian
Arts, Chinese
Chinese Americans
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_t92-062 | Ann Yao playing the Chinese zither at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Harpists
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Performances
Arts, Chinese
Asian Americans
Arts, Asian
Zither
String instruments
Music performance
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| Artist Pam Maneeratana's carved fruit and vegetables | Artist Pam Maneeratana's carved fruit and vegetables | Still Image | Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Fruit
Vegetable carving
Vegetables
Plants
Decorative arts
Arts, Asian
Asian Americans
Thai Americans
Artisans
Carvers (Decorative artists) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Artist Pam Maneeratana's carved fruit and vegetables
- Date
- Description
- Six color slides. Images of artist Pam Maneeratara's carved fruit and vegetables. Csllerd kae Sa Luk. This is a 700-reay old craft taught to school girls in learning culinary skills. The usal motifs is floral. She uses a bird's beak knife, specially ordered from Thailand. She is not pictured. Pam's mother was the cook for Bahn Thai, a family-owned restaurant in Tallahassee.
- Collection
| Atsuko Lefcourte and her apprentices demonstrating ikebana | Atsuko Lefcourte and her apprentices demonstrating ikebana | Still Image | Artisans
Flower arrangers
Apprentices
Flowers
Arts, Asian
Asian American arts
Asian Americans
Arts, Japanese
Japanese Americans
Material culture
Plants
Decorative arts
Decoration and ornament
Teaching of folklore
Flower arrangement, Japanese | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Atsuko Lefcourte and her apprentices demonstrating ikebana
- Date
- 1988-03
- Description
- Four proof sheets with 98 black and white images (plus negatives). Master folk artist Lefcourte took on two apprentices in 1988: Levanthal and McGlamory. Ikebana (Way of the Flower) is the Japanese tradition of flower arranging. It originated in China in the 6th century. Lefcourte was born in Osaka, Japan, where she learned the art of the tea ceremony and flower arranging. She moved to Florida in 1975. For more info on Lefcourte, see S 1644, box 3, folder 11. 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, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| Atsuko Lefcourte and her apprentices demonstrating ikebana | Atsuko Lefcourte and her apprentices demonstrating ikebana | Still Image | Artisans
Flower arrangers
Apprentices
Flowers
Arts, Asian
Asian American arts
Asian Americans
Arts, Japanese
Japanese Americans
Material culture
Plants
Decorative arts
Decoration and ornament
Teaching of folklore
Flower arrangement, Japanese | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Atsuko Lefcourte and her apprentices demonstrating ikebana
- Date
- 1988-03
- Description
- Forty-six color slides. Master folk artist Lefcourte took on two apprentices in 1988: Levanthal and McGlamory. Ikebana (Way of the Flower) is the Japanese tradition of flower arranging. It originated in China in the 6th century. Lefcourte was born in Osaka, Japan, where she learned the art of the tea ceremony and flower arranging. She moved to Florida in 1975. For more info on Lefcourte, see S 1644, box 3, folder 11. 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, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| Basket maker Tuyan Phem at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival | Basket maker Tuyan Phem at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival | Still Image | Basket maker
Domestic arts
Basket making
Craft
Basket work
Basketry
Arts, Asian
Vietnamese
Folk festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Bon Festival at the Morikami Museum | Bon Festival at the Morikami Museum | Still Image | Performers
Drummers (Musicians)
Fieldwork
Festivals
Holidays and festivals
Japanese Americans
Arts, Japanese
Asian Americans
Asian American arts
Arts, Asian
Clothing and dress
Kimonos
Ullambana
Festivals Japan
Lanterns
Drums
Percussion instruments | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Bon Festival at the Morikami Museum
- Date
- 1987-08-16
- Description
- Eighteen color slides. The Bon Festival is the Morikami Museum version of Obon (Ullambana), a traditional three-day Japanese festival to honor the dead. Traditionally, the day ends with lighted lanterns to guide souls back to the afterlife. In additions to the lanterns, images of the Bon Festival feature folk dancing, street performers, Japanese cultural demonstrations, and Taiku drumming. The festival was held each August. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. 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. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
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| Cambodian folk dances at the Florida Folk Festival | Cambodian folk dances at the Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Body movement
Costumes
Demonstrations
Dance
Performing arts
Asian American arts
Arts, Asian
Asian Americans
Dancers
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cambodian folk dances at the Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1950
- Description
- Two black and white prints. Images of University of Florida exchange student Sok Thong Doeung, along with another unidentified exchange student, demonstrating Cambodian folk dances.
- Collection
| Cambodian New Years Celebration (Year of the Tiger) | Cambodian New Years Celebration (Year of the Tiger) | Still Image | Cambodian Americans
Asian Americans
Arts, Asian
Folk dance
Body movement
Children
Holidays and festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Clothing and dress
Asian American arts
Community rites
Calendar rites
New Year rites
Dancers
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cambodian New Years Celebration (Year of the Tiger)
- Date
- 1986-04-19
- Description
- Forty-four color slides. Images from a Cambodian New Years celebration for the Year of the Tiger. Includes child dancers performing traditional dances (e.g. the Dancing Stone, the Celestial Dance, Legend of Mak Thoeung, and the Golden Fish) dressed in traditional Cambodian clothing. 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.
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