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Activities at the Great Gulf Coast Arts festival

Date: 1981-01-19
Description: Forty color slides. Images are of crafts booths and demonstrations.
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Activities at the Great Gulf Coast Arts festival

Basket maker Tuyan Phem at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Date: 1981-01-19
Description: One color prints (plus one black and white print and negatives.) Duplicate of slide S81-11.
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Basket maker Tuyan Phem at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Bobby Johns in his workshop

Date: 1988-12
Description: 37 black and white photographic prints, with negatives. Bobby Johns in his workshop in Pensacola. Photos 32-37 are of a nearby sawmill.
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Bobby Johns in his workshop

Bobby Johns wood carvings

Date: 1989-01
Description: Seven color slides. Examples of Johns's work, including carved walking canes and wooden handled knives.
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Bobby Johns wood carvings

Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Date: 1981-01-19
Description: Five color slides. Images of a cakewalk organized by folklorists Loomis and McNeill. Folklorist Doris Dyen won the walk -- pictured in slide S81-107.
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Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Caned chair

Date: 1980
Description: One color prints (plus one black and white print and negatives.) Duplicate of slide S82-1802.
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Caned chair

Canes by Bobby Johns

Date: 1991-04
Description: Four color slides. Johns won the Florida Folk Heritage Award in 1992.
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Canes by Bobby Johns

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.
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Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Chair caning

Date: 1980
Description: Thirteen color slides.
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Chair caning

Chieri Esposito making temari

Date: 1985-07
Description: Ten color slides. Espasito, daughter to master folk artist Kasuko Law, making temari. 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.
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Chieri Esposito making temari

	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
Activities at the Great Gulf Coast Arts festival	Activities at the Great Gulf Coast Arts festival	Still Image	Folklore revival festivals Folk festivals Festivals Special events Needlework Demonstrations Craft Netmaking Nets	/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
Bobby Johns in his workshop	Bobby Johns in his workshop	Still Image	Wood carvers Carvers (Decorative artists) Material culture Woodwork Wood carving Artisans Tools Craft Sawmills Lumber trade	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Bobby Johns wood carvings	Bobby Johns wood carvings	Still Image	Wood carvers Material culture Woodwork Wood craft Wood carving Wood Art Cypress	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival	Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival	Still Image	Folklore revival festivals Special events Folk festivals Festivals Cake Games Cakewalk (Dance) Dance Folklorists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Caned chair	Caned chair	Still Image	Chair-makers Furniture Chair caning Chairs Material culture Domestic arts	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Canes by Bobby Johns	Canes by Bobby Johns	Still Image	Woodworkers Canes Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) Wood carving Wood craft Woodwork Wood carvers	/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
Chair caning	Chair caning	Still Image	Fieldwork Furniture makers Material culture Chairs Chair caning Furniture Household items Elderly, the Furniture maker Chair-makers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Chieri Esposito making temari	Chieri Esposito making temari	Still Image	Healer 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

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Activities at the Great Gulf Coast Arts festival

Activities at the Great Gulf Coast Arts festival

Basket maker Tuyan Phem at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Basket maker Tuyan Phem at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Bobby Johns in his workshop

Bobby Johns in his workshop

Bobby Johns wood carvings

Bobby Johns wood carvings

Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Caned chair

Caned chair

Canes by Bobby Johns

Canes by Bobby Johns

Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Chair caning

Chair caning

Chieri Esposito making temari

Chieri Esposito making temari

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Activities at the Great Gulf Coast Arts festival

Activities at the Great Gulf Coast Arts festival

Basket maker Tuyan Phem at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Basket maker Tuyan Phem at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Bobby Johns in his workshop

Bobby Johns in his workshop

Bobby Johns wood carvings

Bobby Johns wood carvings

Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival

Caned chair

Caned chair

Canes by Bobby Johns

Canes by Bobby Johns

Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Chair caning

Chair caning

Chieri Esposito making temari

Chieri Esposito making temari