Missouri Folk Arts Program (MU)
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The Missouri Folk Arts Program is a program of the Museum of Art and Archaelogy at the University of Missouri-Columbia.2024-03-28T22:45:14ZAllemande Left and Do-si-do: Missouri Folk Arts Turns Corners With Rural Schools
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Allemande Left and Do-si-do: Missouri Folk Arts Turns Corners With Rural Schools
Higgins, Lisa L.
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.” Since 1988, MFAP has partnered with the Department of Natural Resources' Missouri State Museum. Master and
apprentice artists who participate in the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) perform and demonstrate at venues in and around the Capitol. In early May, emeritus Professor Howard W. Marshall
taught a four-day school residency program about Missouri fiddling at two rural Shelby County R-IV elementary schools.
2005-01-01T00:00:00ZArt in the Basement: Mandingo Gara from Sierra Leone
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Art in the Basement: Mandingo Gara from Sierra Leone
Mitchell, Scott
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 with folklorist Deborah Bailey to visit with
Mahmoud Conteh, a master of Mandingo tie dye, and his apprentice Salieu Kamara, one of eight apprenticeship teams in the 2006 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. Debbie and I visited them to observe and
document the progress of their apprenticeship.
2007-01-01T00:00:00ZBuildin' Boats, Giggin' and Foolin' Around is All Fun: Traditional Material Culture of the Ozark Waterways
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Buildin' Boats, Giggin' and Foolin' Around is All Fun: Traditional Material Culture of the Ozark Waterways
Everts-Boehm, Dana
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 to have the practice banned. Paul Martin has made his living as a gigmaker, and he is profiled here. Many giggers also use johnboats - six foot long wooden boats. Johnboat builder Cecil Murray is profiled.
1996-01-01T00:00:00ZCarnival: from Colombia to West Plains, Missouri
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Carnival: from Colombia to West Plains, Missouri
Mullins, Willow G., 1974-
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 was selected for the residency because of her experience as an artist and educator. She is a Colombian
folkloric dancer and choreographer, is co-director of the St. Louis based Grupo Atlántico, and a Traditional Arts
Apprenticeship Program master artist. She is also a Research Associate Professor in Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. As a member of the Missouri Folk Arts Program's pilot school-residency project, Dence spent three days at
Glenwood Elementary School, working with students in the fifth through eighth grades. With help from drummer Arthur Moore and dancer Donald Kelly, she taught the
students about Colombian dance and culture.
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