Sep. 16, 2024
Ozarks Community Scholar Suzi Vause
Welcome back to Stories from the Field and a new post in our Show Me Folk blog. The blog is dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo essays on an array of topics in Missouri’s traditional arts and folklife. Guest blogger Suzi Vause is a long-time friend of Missouri Folk Arts. In 1996, she apprenticed in walking wheel spinning with the late Elma Moss. Suzi excelled at spinning on the large wheel, and the very next year, she mentored her own apprentice in the tradition. Suzi is known by all as…
March 18, 2024
KOMU 8, Hallsville Fiddle Festival
At the link, find a KOMU 8 news story that aired March 10, 2024, as well as a longer narrative version of the story. https://www.komu.com/news/video-hallsville-fiddle-festival-keeps-missouri-traditions-alive/video_a3d8aeef-cf52-50a4-a2a8-9bd5165eb68d.html Thanks to Mizzou’s “Missouri Method” of teaching journalism, we were pleased to participate in an interview by Sophomore Briana Iordan. Briana, Bishop Lamm, and other members of their team were assigned to research Hallsville, Mo. this semester for class. Congratulations…
Sep. 10, 2019
Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts
Back in 1973, a group based mostly in St. Louis, Missouri came together formally after a few years of programming traditional arts events and documenting regional traditions to establish the non-profit Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts [not to be confused with the Missouri Folk Arts Program]. In September 2018, on Labor Day weekend, the Friends came together for a reunion at the Röbller Vineyard in New Haven, Missouri. They had so much fun at the inaugural event that they organized a…
Aug. 1, 2019
Folk Intern Sam Kendrick
We’re a bit sad to say farewell to our summer intern–Sam Kendrick of Vernon County, Mo. We’re also happy to know that he is heading back to do good work at Western Kentucky University’s Folk Studies and Anthropology and the Kentucky Folklife Program. Here’s Sam’s parting post with some advice and thoughts about music jams, the theater, and arts engagement. MFAP Summer Intern Sam Kendrick Hey guys! I hope every one is staying cool these days, or at least staying hydrated while…
July 1, 2019
Folk Intern Sam Kendrick
The Missouri Folk Arts Program is happy to welcome our summer intern–Sam Kendrick of Vernon County, Mo. During the academic year, Sam is a graduate student in Western Kentucky University’s Folk Studies and Anthropology program in Bowling Green, and he works as a graduate assistant for our colleagues at the Kentucky Folklife Program. As you’ll read below, though, Sam is a Missourian through and through. In addition to working for MFAP on content for the Show Me Folk blog and website, Sam is spending time…
June 11, 2018
Faye Dant: Hannibal Juneteenth
Welcome back to Stories from the Field and a new post in our Show Me Folk blog. The blog is our dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo essays on an array of topics in Missouri’s traditional arts and folklife. We first met Faye Dant, a community scholar from Hannibal, Missouri, at a workshop MFAP organized in St. Louis in 2011. Since, then, Faye has invited us to Hannibal on several occasions to learn more about Hannibal arts and history, particularly African-American cultural contributions to the river city and its region. Retired from a…
June 6, 2018
Deloris Gray Wood, Cherokee Bike Ride
Welcome back to Stories from the Field and a new post in our Show Me Folk blog. The blog is our dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo essays on an array of topics in Missouri’s traditional arts and folklife. Today’s blogger is Deloris Gray Wood of Salem, Mo., an amazing community scholar and journalist who is one of the busiest volunteers in the state, if not beyond. Deloris is President of the Missouri Chapter of the National Trail of Tears Association and a delegate to the National Trail…
May 23, 2018
Sasha Daucus, Oral History Workshop
Welcome back to Stories from the Field and the latest post in our Show Me Folk blog, a dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo essays on an array of topics in Missouri’s traditional arts and folklife. We are excited to welcome Sasha Daucus, a new guest blogger, in Doniphan, Missouri. Sasha is a professional herbalist, a retired midwife, and an Avatar Master who has lived and worked in the Missouri Ozarks for the past forty years. She also has an interest in the value of the arts…
April 9, 2018
Folk Arts @ the Capitol, April 10, 2018
Feb. 20, 2018
2018 Kansas City Folk Festival
Welcome back to Stories from the Field at our Show-Me Folk blog. The blog is our dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo essays on an array of topics in Missouri’s traditional arts and folklife. “EAT, SLEEP, FOLK, REPEAT” A VISIT TO THE KANSAS CITY FOLK FEST by Lisa L. Higgins, director “Eat, Sleep, Folk, Repeat” is the motto printed on the new Folk Alliance International t-shirts, which I found for sale in the Westin Hotel at Crown Center this weekend. On Saturday afternoon (2/17), I visited the…