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MISSOURI FOLK ARTS ANNOUNCES 2025 LIVING TRADITIONS FELLOWS!
Missouri Folk Arts Program Announces 2025 Living Traditions Fellows May 12, 2025 COLUMBIA, MO – The Missouri Folk Arts Program is excited to announce recipients of the 2025 Missouri Living Traditions Fellowship, an award to…
Deadline has passed! GUIDELINES NOW AVAILABLE FOR 2025 LIVING TRADITIONS FELLOWSHIPS
Missouri Folk Arts invites nominations for the 2025 Living Traditions Fellowships. These awards seek to recognize the excellence and lifetime achievement of living traditional artists and community scholars in the Show Me State. The fellowships…
Sharon Bear Foehner, 2024 Living Traditions Sustainer Fellow
Sharon Bear Foehner, St. Louis, Mo. Blues Musician As a child, Sharon Bear Foehner trained as a classical musician, playing bass violin. Then, she picked up the guitar in 1977. Landing in St. Louis ten…
Missouri Folk Arts Program Announces 2024 Living Traditions Sustainer Fellows
Missouri Folk Arts Program Announces 2024 Living Traditions Sustainer Fellows May 13, 2024 COLUMBIA, MO – The Missouri Folk Arts Program is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2024 Missouri Living Traditions Sustainer Fellowship, the…
DEADLINE HAS PASSED. GUIDELINES AVAILABLE FOR MISSOURI’S 2024 LIVING TRADITIONS SUSTAINER FELLOWSHIPS.
Missouri’s Living Traditions Sustainer Fellowship seeks to recognize the excellence and lifetime achievement of living traditional artists and community scholars in the Show Me State. The fellowships will honor those individuals’ deep-rooted contributions to Missouri’s…
Missouri Folk Arts program announces inaugural Living Traditions Sustainer Fellows from the Mexico Ledger
The Mexico Ledger, the only daily newspaper published in Mexico, Missouri and the surrounding rural area, announced on May 5, 2023, that local resident Kenny Applebee was an inaugural Living Traditions Sustainer Fellow. Find the…
Carmen Sofia Dence, 2023 Living Traditions Sustainer Fellow
Carmen Sofia Dence, St. Louis, Mo. Colombian Folkloric Dancer, Choreographer, Costume Maker, Founding Director–Grupo Atlántico Carmen Sofia Dence learned to dance as a child in her local barrio (neighborhood) in Barranquilla, Colombia from her mother, her…
From Red Latina Online, “El Programa de Artes Populares de Missouri ha elegido a los ganadores de la Beca Sustainer Fellowship de Missouri Living Traditions inaugural”
Red Latina St. Louis announced on April 28, 2023, that Colombian folkloric dancer Carmen Sofia Dence was an inaugural 2023 Missouri Living Traditions Sustainer Fellow. The online article (in Spanish) is available at this link:…
Kenny Applebee, 2023 Living Traditions Sustainer Fellow
Kenny Applebee, Mexico, Mo. Old-time Rhythm Guitarist Kenny Applebee is widely recognized as a mainstay of old-time music in Missouri. He has “backed” fiddlers on his rhythm guitar for decades at contests, jams, concerts, dances, and…
Missouri Folk Arts Program Announces Inaugural Living Traditions Sustainer Fellows
Missouri Folk Arts Program Announces Inaugural Living Traditions Sustainer Fellows April 24, 2023 COLUMBIA, MO – The Missouri Folk Arts Program has chosen the recipients of the inaugural Missouri Living Traditions Sustainer Fellowship, the state’s…