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Missouri Folk Arts Program Awarded a Missouri Humanities Grant for Speakers Series
Missouri Humanities has awarded a $12,550 grant to the Missouri Folk Arts Program to support an event series that shares the meaning and matter of its Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP), one of the oldest…
Missouri’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program turns 40! Applications are now CLOSED.
Missouri’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program turns 40! Deadline has passed for 2024 With grant funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and Missouri Arts Council, mentoring master artists and their apprentices commit to sustaining their artistic traditions…
ANNOUNCING MISSOURI’S 2024 TRADITIONAL ARTS APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM TEAMS
Columbia, Mo., June 8, 2024—Missouri Folk Arts is thrilled to announce the seven teams participating in the 39th annual Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP). They are engaged actively in a series of one-on-one lessons and…
4 FAQs about the 2024 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Application Process
[Edited to add: The deadline for 2024 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program applications ended on August 31, 2023.] Staff has fielded a few common questions. We want to share questions and answers below. Have questions you…
DEADLINE HAS PASSED FOR 2023 Missouri’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, Deadline August 31, 2023
EDITED TO ADD: DEADLINE HAS PASSED FOR 2023 Missouri Folk Arts seeks promising teams of artists to submit applications for the 39th annual Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program before the August 31, 2023 deadline. Missouri hosts one…
2023 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, Deadline was August 29, 2022
It’s our new year, and we are actively seeking leads and working with potential apprenticeship teams on their applications and work samples before the August 29, 2022 deadline. Assistance is available from our Folk Arts Specialist…
2022 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: Bernard Tappel & John Kirby
2022 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: Gigmakers Bernard Tappel & John Kirby Missouri Folk Arts staff is happy to sustain the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, especially through the last two years! In the current year of…
Focus Exhibit: A Sampler of Missouri Blacksmiths
In 2019, Mid-America Arts Alliance and Missouri Folk Arts partnered to create a blacksmithing exhibition at the M-AAA offices at the Crossroads in Kansas City, Mo. Bernard Tappel of Osage Bluff Blacksmith Shop provided expert input…
State of Stories: Missouri’s Dynamic Quilting Traditions with Drs. Lisa Higgins & Michael Sweeney
On January 14, 2021, Missouri Folk Arts director Lisa Higgins joined Missouri 2021 coordinator Michael Sweeney for a State of Stories discussion of quilting in Missouri, hosted by Mark Livengood of The Story Center at the…
2020 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: James Price & Steve Eikerman
It is with great pleasure that we continue with the roll out profiles of the 2020 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) teams of master artists and apprentices. Stay tuned; we have a few more profiles to…