| Ann Duffy demonstrating Easter egg decorating | Ann Duffy demonstrating Easter egg decorating | Still Image | Education
Schools
Classrooms
Elementary schools
Students
Teaching of folklore
Egg decoration
Eggs
Easter eggs
Craft
Demonstrations
Painting
Holidays and festivals
Artisans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Ann Duffy demonstrating Easter egg decorating
- Date
- 1985-04-03
- Description
- Twenty color slides. Duffy, an East European, demonstrates traditional methods for decorating Easter eggs to San Pablo Elementary students. 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
| 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
| a_s1618_04_tape21 | Evelyn Coskey interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Librarians
Artisans
Field recordings
Oral narratives
Interviews
Polish Americans
Easter eggs
Egg decoration
Painting
Calendar rites
Pysanky | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Evelyn Coskey interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-06-29
- Description
- One audio casette. A third-generation Polish American originally from New Jersey, Coskey discusses Polish American folk arts, especially pysanky. Pysanky (East European egg decoration)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. She also discusses Polish calendar rites; Polish holidays; Polish Americans; and books she has written.
- Collection
| fls_pysanky | Folklife Subject: Pysanky | Interactive Resource | Pysanka (Egg decorating)
Pysanky
Arts, Ukrainian
Easter eggs
Egg decoration
Ukrainian Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_subjects.png |
Folklife Subject: Pysanky
- Date
- Description
- Pysanky is a traditional Ukrainian method for making Easter eggs. The artist uses a stylus to apply heated beeswax to the surface of an egg. Once dry, the artist dips the egg into a dye, which colors everything on the surface of the egg except that portion underneath the wax. The artist then proceeds to another layer of the pattern, again applying wax with the stylus and dipping the egg into another color of dye. The sequence typically goes from light colors to dark ones, to facilitate more intricate patterns.
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| Interview with wood worker John Cross | Interview with wood worker John Cross | Still Image | Education
Schools
Classrooms
Elementary schools
Students
Teaching of folklore
Egg decoration
Eggs
Easter eggs
Craft
Demonstrations
Painting
Holidays and festivals
Artisans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Interview with wood worker John Cross
- Date
- 1985-04-03
- Description
- Twenty color slides. Duffy, an East European, demonstrates traditional methods for decorating Easter eggs to San Pablo Elementary students. 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
| a_s1618_04_tape01 | Jomarie Monsorno interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Egg decoration
Easter eggs
Decorative arts
Ukrainian Americans
Dyeing
Local histories
Pysanky | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Jomarie Monsorno interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-08-03
- Description
- One audio tape. Monsorno discusses growing up in New York and Connecticut; learning egg decorating from her aunt; how dyes are made; teaching her daughter egg decorating; the decorating process; traditional patterns; the Ukranian-American community in Jacksonville; and uses of the eggs.
- Collection
| Lu Gurley and her Ukrainian decorated eggs | Lu Gurley and her Ukrainian decorated eggs | Still Image | Artisans
Festivals
Folk festivals
Easter eggs
Demonstrations
Egg decoration
Eggs
Painting
Material culture
Decorative arts
Pysanky | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Lu Gurley and her Ukrainian decorated eggs
- Date
- 1987-03
- Description
- One proof sheet with 9 black and white images (plus negatives). Gurley was born in a village in the Ukraine, where she learned traditional egg decorating (pysanky). Her family emigrated to the US just after World War II, and moved to Florida in 1973 (first White Springs, later St. Petersburg). Using a stylus called a kystka, she draws the designs with wax, then dips the egg into various paints for the many colors used.
- Collection
| a_s1640_24_tape26 | Ola Kryway & apprentice Mary Martin interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program | Sound | Field recordings
Pysanky
Egg decoration
Easter eggs
Interviews
Decorative arts
Arts, Ukrainian
Apprentices | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1685_04_tape17 | Olga Byk interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Artisans
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Ukrainian Americans
Easter eggs
Food preparation
Pysanky
Egg decoration
Foodways
Cooking | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Olga Byk interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-01-27
- Description
- One audio cassette. Byk's family emigrated in the 1910s to the US from the Ukraine, originally settling in Cleveland. She discusses various types of foods (soups, pyrohy, borscht, pumpernickel bread). She also discusses moving to Florida in 1978, and traditional Ukrainian egg decorating (pysanky).
- Collection
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