200 Stories for Missouri's 2021 Bicentennial | Missouri Folk Arts Program

Photographed in an unfinished basement with wooden slats above her head, Mary Luka Kemir stands peering to the right smiling at someone off-camera. Mary is a taller Black woman, her dark black hair is tied in the back in a ponytail. She has high shiny cheeks, and wears a short sleeved white shirt tucked into an African patterned purple and yellow skirt. Mary wears a beaded necklace and holds a saucer to it, scraping the plate against the beads to make music.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, May 2021

200 Stories, May 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We…

A black and white close up photo of Helen Jeffrey and her apprentice. Helen Jeffrey takes up most of the frame, she is a middle aged white woman with dark brown hair, cut short. She wears large clear framed glasses and peers over at her apprentice with a smiling expression, lips slightly pursed. Helen ears a long sleeved white button down shirt, holding in her hands weaving fabric. Her apprentice watches Helen's hands, a smile on her face. She is a younger white woman with curly hair, a short sleeved white top and a necklace made of individual rolls of thread. She holds onto fabric being weaved.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, April 2021

200 Stories, April 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about the folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State….

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, March 2021

200 Stories, March 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We…

Photographed in black and white, Lillie Mabel Hall is photographed cooking for a church's Christmas dinner in 1992. Lillie Mabel Hall is an elderly Black woman, she wears a black dress with white stripes forming a checkered pattern. She wears hoop earrings and a hairnet, a white sleeveless vest completes her look. She holds a bag of active dry yeast in one hand and is adding ingredients to a large mixing bowl with the other hand.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, February 2021

200 Stories, February 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We kicked…

Master gospel vocalist and pianist Doris Frazier photographed performing with her apprentice Peyton Boyd in 2016. Doris Frazier stands behind her apprentice wearing a long sleeve all black outfit, she is an elderly lightskinned Black woman with short cropped grey hair. Her apprentice Peyton Boyd appears beside her wearing a tuxedo top and black bottoms, he is a younger Black male. Peyton Boyd is playing the electric keyboard and singing.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, January 2021

200 Stories, January 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts sought to share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the…

Photo of Jennie Cummings surrounded by family and friends in the Missouri House Lounge. Jennie Cummings sits center, she is an elderly white woman with brown hair tied back. She wears a red dress with decorative beading around the collar, and red shoes. Beside her on the left, a middle aged blonde woman sits. She wears a longsleeve matching grey suit and holds one of the proclamations of Jennie's. On Jennie's right sits an older white man, he wears a black suit with a red button down shirt. He holds Jennie's other award. Beside him sits another woman in a longsleeve dress with blue floral design. Behind them stand more of Jennie's family and friends.

200 STORIES, FEATURING JENNIE CUMMINGS

Ahead of the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, the National Endowment for the Arts seeded folklife programs across the country, leading to our own folk and traditional arts program anchored at the University of Missouri. In…

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