| Ida Goodson playing piano at the Great Coast Arts Festival | Ida Goodson playing piano at the Great Coast Arts Festival | Still Image | African Americans
Entertainers
Piano music (Blues)
Blues (Music)
Performing arts
Festivals
Folk festivals
Musicians
Pianists
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart | Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart | Still Image | Apprentices
Creek art
Wood carving
Wood craft
Decorative arts
Woodwork
Woodworking tools
Workshops
Native Americans
Creek Indians
Teaching of folklore
Carvers (Decorative artists)
Wood carvers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart
- Date
- 1990
- Description
- Four color slides; 6 negatives. 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
| Wood carvers Bill and Dale Cooey | Wood carvers Bill and Dale Cooey | Still Image | Apprentices
Wood carving
Teaching of folklore
Decorative arts
Craft
Woodwork
Woodworking tools
Figurines
Workshops
Carpentry tools
Pocketknives
Carvers (Decorative artists)
Wood carvers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Wood carvers Bill and Dale Cooey
- Date
- 1988-04
- Description
- One proof sheet with 24 black and white prints (plus negatives). Bill Cooey, a mix of Scottish and Yuchi Indian ancestry, grew up in the panhandle where he learned pocketknife carving from his mother, a descendant of the Yuchi Indians. His nephew Dale Cooey began to learn the craft with the Apprenticeship program in 1988. For more on Bill Cooey, see S 1644, box 3, folder 1. 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
| Wood carvers Bill and Dale Cooey | Wood carvers Bill and Dale Cooey | Still Image | Apprentices
Wood carving
Teaching of folklore
Decorative arts
Craft
Woodwork
Woodworking tools
Figurines
Workshops
Carpentry tools
Carvers (Decorative artists)
Wood carvers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Wood carvers Bill and Dale Cooey
- Date
- 1988
- Description
- Thirty-nine color slides. Bill Cooey, who has a mix of Scottish and Yuchi Indian ancestry, grew up in the panhandle. There, he learned pocketknife carving from his mother, a descendant of the Yuchi Indians. His nephew Dale Cooey began to learn the craft with the Apprenticeship program in 1988. For more on Bill Cooey, see S 1644, box 3, folder 1. 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
| a_s1640_20_tape08 | Interview with Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito | Sound | Artisans
Paper art
Paper work
Fieldwork
Apprentices
Arts, Japanese
Arts, Asian
Temari
Origami
Japanese Americans
Needlework
Craft
Interviews
Decorative arts
Life histories
Family history
Emigration and immigration
Dollmaking | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito
- Date
- 1985-02-14
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview with master folk artist Kasuko Law and her daughter (and apprentice) Chieri. They discuss family history and life in Japan and China (Law's father supplied the Japanse Army during the second world war); immigration to the United States in 1952; the uses of, designs for, and processes in temari making; origami; doll making; and learning and teaching temari and origami. Temari is the traditional Japanese art of decorating spheres by winding and lacing colored threads in intricate patterns around a core ball. For a transcript of the interview, see S 1640, Box 2, folder 13. 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
| Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito making temari | Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito making temari | Still Image | Artisans
Paper art
Paper work
Fieldwork
Apprentices
Arts, Japanese
Arts, Asian
Temari
Origami
Japanese Americans
Needlework
Craft
Material culture
Decorative arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito making temari
- Date
- 1985-04
- Description
- One proof sheet with twenty-one black and white images (plus negatives). Espasito, daughter to master folk artist Kasuko Law, making temari with Law. She served as apprentice to Law in 1984-1985. Temari is the traditional Japanese art of decorating spheres by winding and lacing colored threads in intricate patterns around a core ball. 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
| Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito making temari | Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito making temari | Still Image | Artisans
Paper art
Paper work
Fieldwork
Apprentices
Arts, Japanese
Arts, Asian
Temari
Origami
Japanese Americans
Needlework
Craft
Material culture
Decorative arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Kazuko Law and apprentice Chieri Espasito making temari
- Date
- 1985-02
- Description
- Fifty-one color slides. Espasito, daughter to master folk artist Kasuko Law, making temari with Law. She served as apprentice to Law in 1984-1985. Temari is the traditional Japanese art of decorating spheres by winding and lacing colored threads in intricate patterns around a core ball. 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
| Paper art by Kazuko Law at the 1984 Gulf Coast Arts Festival | Paper art by Kazuko Law at the 1984 Gulf Coast Arts Festival | Still Image | Artisans
Paper art
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Paper work
Decorative arts
Arts, Asian | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| 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 |
| Creek basket maker Letha McGee | Creek basket maker Letha McGee | Still Image | Basket maker
Creek Indians
Native Americans
Porches | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Creek basket maker Letha McGee
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One color prints (plus one black and white print and negatives.) Duplicate of slide S82-1891.
- Collection
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