| Fu-Yung Chang making rice figurines at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival | Fu-Yung Chang making rice figurines at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Artisans
Sculptors
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Demonstrations
Craft
Rice
Sculpture
Figurines
Arts, Asian
Arts, Chinese | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_78_d98-041 | Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3) | Sound | Dancers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Hula (Dance)
Kolam (House marks)
Rice
Indian arts
Indian Americans
Tongan Americans
Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| Chinese rice sculptures | Chinese rice sculptures | Still Image | Fieldwork
Sculpture
Asian Americans
Asian American arts
Asians
Arts, Asian
Cooks
Food
Rice
Restaurants
Sculptors
Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Chinese rice sculptures
- Date
- 1988-06
- Description
- Nine color slides. Born in Taiwan, Chang constructed small sculptures from rice dough. For an interview with Chang, see S 1618, box 5, tape 1. 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
| Japanese American New Year's celebration | Japanese American New Year's celebration | Still Image | Fieldwork
Festivals Japan
Japanese Americans
Arts, Japanese
Holidays and festivals
Calendar rites
Writing
Rice
Cookery, Japanese
Rice (Cookery)
Games
New Year rites
Playing cards
Decorative arts
Pottery
Kimonos | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Japanese American New Year's celebration
- Date
- 1988-01
- Description
- Thirteen color slides. Images of a Japanese New Years celebration, including card playing, rice cooking, traditional calligraphy, craft demonstration, and traditional dress (eg kimonos). 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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| Kolam art by Prema Kumar and Menea Venkateswaran | Kolam art by Prema Kumar and Menea Venkateswaran | Still Image | Fieldwork
Art
Artists
Decorative arts
Craft
Arts, Asian
Indian Americans
Indian arts
Rice
Design
Kolam (House marks)
Dancers
Teacher | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Kolam art by Prema Kumar and Menea Venkateswaran
- Date
- 1988-08
- Description
- Seventeen color slides. Kolam is a traditional Indian art form. It consists of patterns and design created on a flat surface using rice and rice flour trickled with fingers. This was traditionally performed each morning by Indian women outside their home, partly as decoration, partly for use as a bird feeder. Kumar, an Indian grocer, and Venkateswaran demonstrates kolam art. 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.
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| Rice flour painting demonstration | Rice flour painting demonstration | Still Image | Fieldwork
Teaching of folklore
Education
Students
Children
Elementary schools
Art
Rice
Indian arts
Indian Americans
Demonstrations
Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Rice flour painting demonstration
- Date
- 1992-01
- Description
- Ten color slides. 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_s1576_78_d98-036 | Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Oral narratives
Kolam (House marks)
Trinidadians
Guitar music
Rice
Arts, Asian
Asian Americans
Indian arts
Indian Americans
Singing
Drum music
String instruments
Music performance
Arts, Chinese
Chinese Americans
Drum performance
Zheng
Musicians
Singers
Artists
Drummers (Musicians) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1618_04_tape20 | Prema Kumar interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Merchants
Field recordings
Folk art
Decorative arts
Crafts
Indian Americans
Rice
Belief systems
Grocery stores
Interviews
Oral narratives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Prema Kumar interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-08-16
- Description
- One audio cassette. Prema grew up in Madras, India and moved to the US in 1975. She and her husband run an Asian grocery store. Kumar discusses growing up in India; life in the USA; running an Asian grocery store; Kolam: designs, origins, process, and uses of; Shankaranth (sun worship); other Indian arts; needlework; fabric painting; traditions at the Jacksonville Indian Community; Hinduism; and Indian diversity. Kolam is a traditional Indian art form. It consists of patterns and design created on a flat surface using rice and rice flour trickled with fingers. This was traditionally performed each morning by Indian women outside their home, partly as decoration, partly for use as a bird feeder.
- Collection
| a_s1576_46_fln-004 | Friday performances at the 1995 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshops) (Tape 4) | Sound | Quiltmakers
Needleworkers
Storytellers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Workshops (Adult education)
Quilting
Quilts
Needlework
Decorative arts
Domestic arts
Oral performance
Family history
Turpentine
Turpentining
Rice
Seminole Indians
Oral narratives
Storytelling
African Americans
Native Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1618_05_tape01 | Fu-Yung Chang interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Sculptures
Field recordings
Asian Americans
Cooking
Food
Rice
Restaurants
Interviews
Oral narratives
Food preparation
Education
Immigration
Taiwanese | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Fu-Yung Chang interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-06-21
- Description
- One audio cassette. Born in Taiwan, Chang constructed small sculptures from rice dough. This art goes back over 2000 years in China, though it is rare to find an practitioner of it. Chang learned from a master artist in Taiwan. In the interview, he discusses his immigration to US; education; work in China; cooking; opening a restaurant in US; rice dough sculpting; training with a master artist; sculpting subjects; tools for sculpting; and status of art in the USA.
- Collection
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