| Venezuelan harpist Jesus Rodriguez training apprentice Ana Marie de Armas | Venezuelan harpist Jesus Rodriguez training apprentice Ana Marie de Armas | Still Image | Musicians
Apprentices
Children
Harp music
Venezuelan Americans
Latinos
Musical instruments
String instruments
Teaching of folklore
Harps
Harpists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Venezuelan harpist Jesus Rodriguez training apprentice Ana Marie de Armas
- Date
- 1988-03
- Description
- Forty-five color slides. For more information on Rodrigues and Armas, see S 1644, box 3, folder 15. 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
| Venezuelan harpist Jesus Rodriguez training apprentice Ana Marie de Armas | Venezuelan harpist Jesus Rodriguez training apprentice Ana Marie de Armas | Still Image | Musicians
Apprentices
Children
Harp music
Venezuelan Americans
Latinos
Musical instruments
String instruments
Teaching of folklore
Harps
Harpists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Venezuelan harpist Jesus Rodriguez training apprentice Ana Marie de Armas
- Date
- 1988-03
- Description
- Two proof sheets with 50 black and white images (plus negatives); nine black and white prints and three color prints. For more information on Rodrigues and Armas, see S 1644, box 3, folder 15. 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
| Unidentified slides from the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Unidentified slides from the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Still Image | Fieldwork
Students
Classrooms
Elementary schools
Workers
Folklife
Teaching of folklore
Education
Fieldwork (educational method) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Unidentified slides from the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988
- Description
- 335 color slides. Images from demonstrations and fieldwork from the Duval County Folk Arts in Education project. Includes student dancing; folk dancers; artisans; cooks; and classrooms. 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
| Troy Lovelace and Harold Weaver teaching folklore in Hillsborough County | Troy Lovelace and Harold Weaver teaching folklore in Hillsborough County | Still Image | Pedagogy
Classrooms
Teaching of folklore
Students
Education
Children | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Troy Lovelace and Harold Weaver teaching folklore in Hillsborough County
- Date
- 1982-10
- Description
- One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images. Images of Tom Lovelace playing his fiddle for students in Hillsborough County for the Florida Folk Arts in the Schools program. Also included are image of Harold Weaver demonstrating the art of water witching (also known as water divining). Biographical information on Lovelace and Weaver can be found in S 1613.
- Collection
| Tom Herndon and Bunch Bass performing at Lake City Junior High School, East | Tom Herndon and Bunch Bass performing at Lake City Junior High School, East | Still Image | Guitarist
Education
Schools
Teaching of folklore
Teenagers
Students
Demonstrations
Banjoes
Guitarists
Music performance
Musical instruments
Banjoists
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Tom Herndon and Bunch Bass performing at Lake City Junior High School, East
- Date
- 1982-02-25
- Description
- Eight color slides. Bass learned to play fiddle in South Georgia. The Folk Arts in Schools Project in Columbia and Hamilton County was a joint venture between the county school systems and the Florida Folklife Program. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists.
- Collection
| Tom Harvely water witching (dowsing) | Tom Harvely water witching (dowsing) | Still Image | Dowsing
Folklore
Students
Teaching of folklore
Pedagogy
Beliefs and cultures
Water witching
Divination
Magic
Dowsers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Tom Harvely water witching (dowsing)
- Date
- 1982-10
- Description
- One black and white print. Water witching, or dowsing, is the act of locating water sources through extrasensory perceptions, often signaled by the twitching of a piece of wood held in the hand.
- Collection
| Thomas Rains demonstrating blacksmithing to students | Thomas Rains demonstrating blacksmithing to students | Still Image | African Americans
Blacksmithing
Metal craft
Demonstrations
Workshops
Workplace
Students
Teaching of folklore
Fieldwork (educational method)
Education
Blacksmiths | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| The Versiteers performing at John E. Ford Elementary School | The Versiteers performing at John E. Ford Elementary School | Still Image | Fieldwork
Teaching of folklore
Classrooms
Children
Students
Elementary schools
Education
African Americans
A capella singers
A capella singing
Gospel (Black)
Religious music
Music performance
Singing
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
The Versiteers performing at John E. Ford Elementary School
- Date
- 1991-12
- Description
- Four color slides. Demonstration for first grade students at John E. Ford Elementary School. 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
| The Traditional Sweetgrass Basket Making and Ukrainian Egg Decorating Workshop | The Traditional Sweetgrass Basket Making and Ukrainian Egg Decorating Workshop | Still Image | Artisans
Basket maker
Publicity
Sweetgrass baskets
Baskets
Eggs
Arts, Ukrainian
Decorative arts
Domestic arts
Ukrainian American art
Pysanky
Workshops (Adult education)
Education
Teaching of folklore
African Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
The Traditional Sweetgrass Basket Making and Ukrainian Egg Decorating Workshop
- Date
- 1989-03-11
- Description
- Thirty-five slides. Images from 1989 spring folk workshop, arranged by Florida folklorist Fant and held at the Stephen Foster Center. The instructors were Garrison and Gurley. Garrison grew up in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, but lived in Jacksonville from the 1960s on. She learned sweetgrass basket making, a New World adaptation of an Old World skill, at age three from her family in South Carolina. She made her basket by coiling pine needles and sweetgrass, then sewing them with palmetto frond strips, using a spoon (called a bone) to help bind the strips through. 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
| The Rivera family demonstrating to students how to build a chickee | The Rivera family demonstrating to students how to build a chickee | Still Image | Farmers
Fieldwork
Classrooms
Schools
Elementary schools
Education
Teaching of folklore
Puerto Ricans
Demonstrations
Latinos
Children
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
The Rivera family demonstrating to students how to build a chickee
- Date
- 1987-03-09
- Description
- Ten color slides. 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.
- Collection
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