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Fifteen Years of the Missouri Folk Arts Graduate Internships
(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2009)
of folklore at MU offers a truly interdisciplinary experience, including the opportunity to intern with the Missouri Folk Arts Program (MFAP)....
A Storyteller's Story: Gladys A. Coggswell
(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2005)
Mrs. Gladys A. Coggswell, a master traditional artist in African-American storytelling from Frankford, MO., will be the recipient of the 2005 Missouri Arts Award in the Individual Artist category. This prestigious award is the state's highest honor...
Creative Opportunities for Missouri's Traditional Artists
(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2008)
rewarded through a new opportunity from the Fund for Folk Culture (FFC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the dynamic practice and conservation of folk and traditional arts and culture throughout the United States. The Folk Arts staff nominated three...
Art in the Basement: Mandingo Gara from Sierra Leone
(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2007)
In the spring of 2006, however, while a graduate intern at the Missouri Folk Arts Program, I was able to observe firsthand an artist as he created art in what may seem the most unlikely of settings—a basement in urban St. Louis. That day I traveled...
Allemande Left and Do-si-do: Missouri Folk Arts Turns Corners With Rural Schools
(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2005)
The Missouri Folk Arts Program (MFAP) has produced educational projects for school children for several years, from traveling exhibitions to school performances. The
most long-lasting project is “Tuesdays at the Capitol.” ...
The Work of Art
(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2007)
One of the most integral art forms central to musical expression is the visual and
aural art of luthiery—a term which refers to the intricate craft, repair and restoration
of stringed instruments. In May 2007, the Missouri ...
Meet the People, Know the Program
(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2008)
In Missouri, we are fortunate to have a strong network of professional folklorists that we rely upon to serve on panels,
to conduct evaluations and to advise us with new projects. Dr. Wolford, who earned his PhD in Folklore ...
Carnival: from Colombia to West Plains, Missouri
(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2006)
In October, St. Louis artist Carmen Dence brought the famous Latin carnival of her hometown, Barranquilla, Colombia, to Glenwood R-VIII Elementary School, just a
few miles outside West Plains in southern Missouri. Dence ...
A Fifteenth-Century French Illuminated Calendar Leaf
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2005)
be placed within the context of the original, intact manuscript, as well as within artistic, social, and religious traditions. The Museum of Art and Archaeology holds several such leaves, including one from a fifteenth-century book of hours attributed...
The commodification of art : Ndebele women in the stream of change
(Cultural Survival, 2001)
Artful Medicine
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2006)
Radiologists and technologists create images that illuminate, instruct and sometimes help save lives.
Fission and fusion in Paschke's Kiss I
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2005)
kisses, this vision is one of his most provocative expressions. As such, the painter was pleased that Kiss I found its mark in the center of the heartland in 1997, when it was purchased by the University of Missouri's Museum of Art and Archaeology...
The people's poetry
(2003-03)
Horseman in Bronze : A Belt from Urartu
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2005)
A Bronze Septimius Severus at Saitta, Issued by Charikles : An Avatar or Acolyte for the Moon-God Men? In Memory of Eugene Numa Lane
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2008)
�The Museum of Art and Archaeology owns one of the earliest egregiously large coins minted by Greek cities in the Roman Empire, a great bronze, issued for the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (193-211 C. E.) by the magistrate Sos. Charikles. Some...
Albrecht D�rer's Curls : Melchior Lorck's 1550 Engraved Portrait and Its Relationship to D�rer's Self-Fashioned Public Image
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2008)
"The image of the Nuremberg artist Albrecht D�rer with a mane of long curly hair is internationally recognizable. Its place in the collective consciousness of the Western world has been years in the making, beginning with ...
A Funerary Deposit from Early Bronze Age Cyprus
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2008)
The Question of the Homoerotic in Thomas Eakins' The Swimming Hole
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2007)