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Item Missouri Folk Arts Program(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2010) Higgins, Lisa L.Missouri Folk Arts Program (MFAP) staff members are relieved, and excited, to have wrapped up the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP). Over the course of the last fiscal year, we collaborated with International Institute, an immigrant resettlement organization in St. Louis, and the West Plains Council on the Arts to present showcases at the 2009 Festival of Nations and the 2010 Old-time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival in St. Louis and West Plains, respectively.Item Folk Arts: When Tradition Meets Technology(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2010) Holtgrave, DarcyWhen people think about “traditional arts,” people don't tend to think “technology.” Some would even say there is a tension between the two. However, the number of people who turn to the internet to learn more about the arts is rapidly expanding.Item Fifteen Years of the Missouri Folk Arts Graduate Internships(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2009) Schmidt, ClaireIn addition to a strong network of professional folklorists in the academy and public sector, Missouri is fortunate to have a strong academic program of Folklore, Oral Tradition and Culture Studies Program in MU's Department of English. The study of folklore at MU offers a truly interdisciplinary experience, including the opportunity to intern with the Missouri Folk Arts Program (MFAP).Item You'll Never Get Ireland in American: Irish Traditional Music and Dance in St. Louis, Missouri(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1994) Everts-Boehm, DanaSt. Louis, Missouri boasts a small but active Irish-American community whose historic roots stretch back to the early nineteenth century. Clearly eclipsed by Boston, Chicago, and New York City (among others) in both immigrant and American-born Irish, St. Louis has nevertheless distinguished itself in the last decade as an important center of traditional Irish music and dance in America. A number of St. Louis' “movers and shakers” in Irish music and dance have participated in Missouri's Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, among them master Patrick Gannon, Helen Gannon, Niall Gannon, Larry McNally, and apprentices Gregory Krone and Eileen Gannon. This essay is based in large part on interviews with these talented and dedicated traditional artists.Item How I Got Over: African-American Gospel Music in the Missouri Bootheel(Missouri Folk Arts Program of the Missouri Arts Council, 1995) Everts-Boehm, Dana; Crandall, JeanThis essay emerged from the Bootheel Underserved Arts Communities Project, which was co-sponsored by the Missouri Arts Council, the Missouri Folk Arts Program, and the State Historical Society of Missouri at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Extensive fieldwork undertaken in 1994 documented, among other things, a rich vein of African American gospel music in this region. Jean Crandall, a graduate student in the Folk Studies Program at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, interviewed a number of black gospel singers and taped performances at choir rehearsals, church services, and fellowship gatherings. One of the gospel singers she interviewed, Mildred Whitehorn, was subsequently chosen to participate as a master artist in Missouri's Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. This essay explores the phenomenon of African American gospel in the Bootheel, with a special focus on soloist Mildred Whitehorn.