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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…

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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…

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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…

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One blacksmith works at the anvil with hammer while the second observes.

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…

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Image of Bernie Trappel in his Blacksmith workshop. He appears in the foreground of the photo where he works on a current piece for the Focus Exhibit. Behind him hang finished pieces on his wall.

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…

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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…

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Photographed in studio, James Price and Steve Eikerman stand together for a photo at the Ozarks National Scenic Riverways workshop of 2019. Left is apprentice Steve Eikerman, he is a middle aged white man with a greying beard. He wears a tan botton down shirt and matching cap, a pair of denim overalls, and a wristwatch. Beside him stands James Price, wearing the same tan button down and matching hat, he wears blue jeans and has a brown belt.

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…

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2020 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: Prasanna Kasthuri and Samanvit Kasthuri

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 for several updates in the next several…

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2020 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: John P. Williams & Cynthia Mackey

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 for several updates in the next several days….

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2020 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: Loretta Washington & Brianna Chandler

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 for several updates in the next…

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A TRIBUTE TO BEVERLY STROHMEYER (1944-2023)

Saturday, September 2, we woke to the news on Facebook that our friend and colleague Beverly Strohmeyer had suffered and survived a major cardiac event. Over the next two weeks, we followed the stories of…

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Missouri quilters reflect on sharing their craft on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. by Kirk Kramer for the News Leader, August 13, 2023

At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, we enjoyed meeting Ozarks’ own son Kirk Kramer who resides now in Cottage City, Maryland (originally of Greenfield, Missouri and Miami, Oklahoma). Kirk let us know he wrote the following…

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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…

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