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Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Partnership for MFAP Collaborations in Arts & Sciences
(Missouri Folk Arts Program, 2009)
statement is Missouri's Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, which in the past twenty years has paired over three hundred teams of artists to convey folk arts traditions from one generation to the next. However, the MFAP has long been involved in cross...
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 ...
Museum magazine, Number 53 (2008 Fall)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2008)
's painting "Marriage à la Mode," a rundown of various "Creative Opportunities for Missouri's Traditional Artists," a spotlight on Cambodian bronzes, and columns from director Alex W. Barker, educator Cathy Callaway, academic coordinator Arthur Mehrhoff...
Museum magazine, Number 54 (2009 Winter)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2009)
to Post-Modernity", a look at "Fifteen Years of the Missouri Folk Arts Graduate Internships", pictures of new acquisitions at the museum, spotlight on "An Apulian Askos" and columns from director Alex W. Barker, educator Cathy Callaway, academic...
Museum magazine, Number 55 (2009 Fall)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2009)
by Andy Warhol, a spotlight on "The Sorceress and the Rediscovery of a Victorian Woman Artist," a look back called "Passing It On: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program," a list of new acquisitions, and columns...
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)
Homemade home : creating in the face of the nostalgic impulse
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Nostalgia is a pervasive and widely accepted form of dishonesty. Throughout American history, people have made and collected objects, upheld traditions, and revered styles and forms of past eras with the aim of recreating or re-experiencing some...
Studies in oral tradition: history and prospects for the future
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis discusses the inauguration, development, and recent directions in studies in oral tradition. The first chapter focuses on the advancements of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord, first examining briefly the history of scholarship leading up...
Re-matriculation in the studio arts : what are the perceptions of mid-life non-traditional students in graduate fine arts?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
-making interlaced with mid-life identity themes. The resulting collage of individual reflections on self and art sheds light on a shared essence of the human condition related to tapping into the aesthetic core in the adult years, a timeframe traditionally...
The art of persuasion : critiquing China's new middle class by multi-perspective storytelling mode
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My work is a critique of China's New Middle Class's tasteless manners. The New Middle Class in China have attempted to use "good taste" as a means of distinguishing themselves...
Land of the American condition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] While there has always been separation between the "ideal" family and the dynamics of real family relationships, since the 1960's American culture has failed to recognize...