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Mike McLaughlin wears thin framed glasses, a dark green crew neck shirt and denim jeans. He wears a hat as well which is dark blue. Mike is facing the camera with a smile on his face as he works on a blacksmithing project.

Missouri Blacksmiths Are Keeping a Touch, Old Trade Alive, from Anne Kniggendorf for KCUR 89.3

KCUR’s Anne Kniggendorf shared stories about blacksmiths Mike McLaughlin and Bernard Tappel, who were featured artists in an exhibition at the Mid-America Arts Alliance and a special “hammer in” demonstration during First Fridays at the…

Smitra Dorairajan leads Bharatanatyam practice for Charunetha Murugeson in the basement of her home. Smitra wears a long purple cultural garment with black leggings. Facing the left she is photographed mid sentence with one arm extended over her head and one to her side. Behind her, Charunetha in thin framed glasses and a red cultural dress with black leggings follows the same movement.

Traditional Arts Weave “Cultural Fabric” in Missouri from Seth Bodine for KBIA

KBIA report Seth Bodine visited MFAP staff, as well as Bharatanatyam TAAP team Smrita Dorairajan and her apprentice Charunetha Murugesan for this story about both the Indian dance tradition and the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program….

Bob Cathey wears thin framed glasses and a blue and white plaid button down shirt. Bob is tuning a violin and behind him are a shelf of other violins.

Statewide program preserves and passes on traditional folk arts, from Olivia Garrett for the Columbia Missourian

Columbia Missourian reporter Olivia Garrett interviewed MFAP’s Folk Arts Specialist, as well as two previous Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program participants for the story Statewide program preserves and passes on traditional folk arts. The article was…

VISIONARY AWARDS HONOREE CARMEN DENCE PERFORMS LIKE EVERY DAY IS CARNAVAL, FROM AMY DE LA HUNT AT ALIVE MAGAZINE

We were excited to see this lovely profile of master Colombian folkloric dancer, seamstress, and choreographer Carmen S. Dence at Alive Magazine. Follow this link to read the entire essay by Amy de la Hunt,…

THE STORY OF OZARKS STORYTELLER MARIDETH SISCO, FROM OZARKS ALIVE, VIA MICHAEL COONROD

If readers haven’t subscribed to the Ozarks Alive! blog, please do. We highly recommend the great posts that Kaitlyn McConnell and friends sift from the rich Ozark hills. In the post linked below, guest blogger…

“We Just Wanted To Celebrate the Art,” by Karen Cernich at eMissourian.com

We were so excited that folklorist Barry Bergey and friends organized a recent reunion of Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts. He and friends founded MFFA in the 1970s to produce folklife events (including the…

Folk Arts @ the Capitol: Basket Making, from Barbara Gibbs Ostmann for emissourian.com

A fantastic profile of master basketmakers Joe and Alice Dudenhoeffer with apprentice Aaron Holsapple by Missouri’s favorite travel writer, Barbara Gibbs Ostmann for the online emissourian.com.

H.K. SILVEY, THE OZARKS FIDDLER WHO MADE IT TO THE MOON, from Kaitlyn McConnell’s “Ozarks Alive”

When fiddler H.K. Silvey was a boy in rural Ozark County, a down-the-road town seemed nearly as far away as the moon. Enjoy this blog post and photos from Kaitlynn McConnell’s Ozarks Alive. You’ll learn not…

“Meet the Saddlemaking Cowboy Poet of Missouri,” from Missouri Life Magazine, July 2017

“I get as much satisfaction from the last saddle I made as from the first saddle I put together,” he says. “When the day comes when that’s not the case, I’ll shut down my shop,…

“Inside the McClurg Jam, the Heart of the Deep Ozarks Sound” from the September 2017 issue of Acoustic Guitar

A story and photographs by Karen Peterson about Missouri’s McClurg Jam for Acoustic Guitar, featuring Missouri old-time guitarist Alvie Dooms, guitarist/community scholar Gordon McCann, and fiddler David Scrivner. Dooms has been jamming at McClurg since its…

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