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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)....
Folk Arts: When Tradition Meets Technology
(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2010)
When 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 ...
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)
A.B. Lord Fellowship in Oral Tradition
(2011)
Announcement of the first recipient of the the A.B. Lord Fellowship in Oral Tradition....
Fallen Angel : A Case Study in Architectural Ornamentation
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2016)
Artful Medicine
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2006)
Radiologists and technologists create images that illuminate, instruct and sometimes help save lives.
Mysteries and Histories in an Orthodox Triptych
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2016)
The Departure of the Commedia dell'Arte from Paris in 1697 : A Copy of a Lost Watteau
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2018)
Family Tradition
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2013)
Three generations of the Cornett family made quilts that tell a story of European settlement in Missouri....
Domenico Morone's Man of Sorrows and Madonna of Humility : Columbia's "Cloth of Humility"
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2012)