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"A Handful of Dinky": African American Storytelling in Missouri
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1992)
Americans have had to rely largely on their shared oral traditions to reconstruct their cultural past. One of the foremost traditional African American narrators in Missouri today is Gladys A. Coggswell, a master storyteller in the Traditional Arts...
Buildin' Boats, Giggin' and Foolin' Around is All Fun: Traditional Material Culture of the Ozark Waterways
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1996)
Gigging - the practice of using a steel object in the shape of a large fork to impale fish - has long been a popular traditional activity in the Missouri Ozarks. Many natives of the area consider gigging to be their sport, despite several attempts...
¡Qué Viva el Westside! Mexican Traditional Arts in Kansas City, Missouri
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1993)
Mexico,” Heriberto (Beto) Lopez, Sr., is currently a master artist for Missouri's Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, tutoring apprentice Antonio Sierra, Jr. in the art of mariachi trumpet playing....
Halau Hula O Missouri: Hawaiian Hula and Lei-making in Missouri
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1999)
Despite their relatively small population, Hawaiians in Missouri have a high visibility because of their interest in teaching and performing their distinctive folk arts. This essay focuses on hula dance and lei-making, beginning with a look back...
You'll Never Get Ireland in American: Irish Traditional Music and Dance in St. Louis, Missouri
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1994)
'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...
Polkas, Fastnacht and Kloppelei: Contemporary German Folk Arts in Missouri
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1997)
of two master folk artists who were selected to participate in Missouri's Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program in 1996-7: Marilyn Loehning, an accordionist from Hermann, and Christa Robbins, a bobbin lacemaker from Dixon. Their stories highlight...
The Ozark Johnboat: Its History, Form and Functions
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 1991)
This essay looks at three aspects of wooden johnboats. The first section tracks their history from their roots in Colonial Missouri through the present day of 1991. Johnboats were used during the period of railroad construction. They have been...
How I Got Over: African-American Gospel Music in the Missouri Bootheel
(Missouri Folk Arts Program of the Missouri Arts Council, 1995)
This 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...
Hoitsu's Farmer Feeding a Horse
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1987)
"In both Japan and China the creative modeling of a painting after a masterwork of the past is a well-established tradition. Copying paintings by one's teacher or other well-known masters was regarded as the preferred method for studying style...
Representative Vessels of the Este Culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1978)
Tigers�and the Kishi School of Japanese Painting
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1989)
by Kishi Renzan (1805-1859) in the collections of the Museum of Art and Archaeology of the University of Missouri-Columbia nevertheless succeeds in evoking both traditional attributes of the beast together with a naturalism new to Japanese painting...
An American View of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1977)
Spectrum, Cultural Events Issue, 1986-87
(University of Missouri, University Information Services, 1986)
David Le Marchand's Madonna and Child
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1974)
The Baptism of Christ by Hans Rottenhammer
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1986)
"In 1604, when Karel van Mander published the first critical assessment of the art of Hans Rottenhammer -- then in his fortieth year -- he emphasized those qualities of grace and refinement with which the artist's name has been associated ever since...
Cherishing Missouri's heritage
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1985)
"In his younger days, Kansas City jazz master Claude Williams hopped and bopped around the country with legends such as Count Basie and Mary Lou Williams. Today, Williams is handing down his musical legacy to future generations, thanks to UMC...
An Unpublished Caricatura by Domenico Tiepolo
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1984)
An Eighteenth-Century Collaboration : Fragonard, Robert and the Abbe Saint-Non
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1992)
A Painted Scroll from West Bengal
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1975)
In the Pasture of the Gods
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1987)
and "accounts" settled. Two such bronze animal figurines in the collection of the Museum of Art and Archaeology of the University of Missouri-Columbia exemplify the stylistic diversity of this early Greek sculptural tradition."--First paragraph....