Stories from the Field

Feb. 7, 2018

Holtgrave: Missouri Folk Arts Archives

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. Please welcome our latest guest blogger, folklorist Darcy Holtgrave, PhD, who has played many roles at the Missouri Folk Arts Program over almost a decade, from graduate student intern and graduate assistant to consultant, evaluator, and panelist. We at MFAP have been beholden to Dr. Holtgrave over the years for many tasks and projects. These days, Dr. Holtgrave is an…

Jan. 25, 2018

Arts and Access

Most of our friends, followers, and constituents know that the Missouri Folk Arts Program is based at the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri. MFAP has been anchored at the Museum since 1993, and, since 2013, MFAP has been housed in the same building (Mizzou North). For MFAP staff, being in the same physical space as our colleagues has been beneficial for any number of reasons, like being in close proximity to our colleagues, learning more about the Museum’s operations and collections, and finding opportunities occasionally to collaborate on projects. Typically, MFAP has programmed…

Dec. 24, 2017

Robert Mueller: Missouri French Bouillon

Welcome back once again 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. Our latest guest blogger is Robert (Bob) Mueller. Bob is a local historian in Ste. Genevieve who searches out the history, genealogy, traditions, food, and cultures of Missouri’s oldest settlement. He is a member of the local Art Guild and a past president of the Foundation for Restoration of…

Dec. 19, 2017

Claire Schmidt: Niche Agriculture

Welcome back once again 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. Our latest blogger is Claire Schmidt, PhD, an assistant professor of English at Missouri Valley College in Marshall since 2013. Professor Schmidt teaches a variety of courses in the English Department and advises students in the Honors Program. Not only has Schmidt recently published her first scholarly book, she worked…

Nov. 13, 2017

Gladys Caines Coggswell: Hear Now Festival

Welcome back to Stories from the Field and the lates 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. Our latest blogger is Gladys Caines Coggswell, who rarely needs an introduction in Missouri. Gladys is an educator, a storyteller, a master artist, a community scholar, a vocalist, and a writer. MFAP staff first met Gladys in her role as an apprentice in the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, when master jazz vocalist Mae…

Oct. 30, 2017

Mary Peura: Liver Dumplings

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. Our latest blogger is Community Scholar Mary Peura of Ste. Genevieve. We at the Missouri Folk Arts Program first met Mary at a Community Scholars Workshop in 2013, hosted by the Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center and organized by local liaison Lisa Palmer with University of Missouri Extension (at that time).

Sep. 8, 2017

Marideth Sisco: Thomasville

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. Our latest blogger is Marideth Sisco, for whom many will need no introduction. For those who do, Marideth is a woman of many hats or many talents–or both. She is a singer, a storyteller, a journalist, and often she is all three at once and more. We at the Missouri…

Aug. 29, 2017

Sarah Denton: Local Foodways

Welcome to another installment of Stories from the Field on our Show-Me Folk blog, a space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo essays on an array of topics in the folk and traditional arts. Our second guest blogger is Sarah Denton, who lives and works around the Missouri-Arkansas border between West Plains, Mo., and Calico Rock, Ar. We met Sarah at MFAP’s first Community Scholars Regional Workshop in West Plains in November 2010. Sarah has steadfastly participated in the Community Scholars Network since that time, attending every intermediate workshop to date and working…

Aug. 18, 2017

Lisa Palmer: Paper Filigree

With its new website and the Show-Me Folk blog, the Missouri Folk Arts Program will publish a number of Stories from the Field. In addition to stories from staff and student workers, we will invite traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo essays on an array of topics. You may look forward to stories about traditional arts, place stories, and foodways, among others.  Our first guest blogger is Lisa Palmer of Ste. Genevieve. MFAP staff met Lisa when she worked with University of Missouri Extension and coordinated the Mississippi River Hills Association–a…

Aug. 8, 2017

News Tribune: Tappel’s Patriotic Quilt

Patriotic quilt could fetch premium price at picnic MFAP friend and master quilter Patti Tappel of Osage Bluff, Mo. paper pieced the patriotic American Spirit quilt (over 2,500 pieces), and the ladies at her church quilted it for the annual church fundraiser. We hear the quilt raised $5,000 at the annual church picnic and auction! Photo courtesy of artist…