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Photo of apprentice Matt Dickson and master blacksmith Bob Alexander sitting outside Scrub Oak Forge holding lamps.

2020 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: Bob Alexander & Matt Dickson

It is with great pleasure that we roll out profiles of the 2020 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) teams of master artists and apprentices. Our regular Show Me Folk blog readers should recognize both members…

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Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Applications WERE Due August 31, 2019

DEADLINE FOR 2019/2020 APPLICATIONS HAS PASSED.    At the Missouri Folk Arts Program, our new year starts on July 1, and the first few weeks are all about the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. We draft…

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2019 TRADITIONAL ARTS APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM: BOB ALEXANDER AND LISA THOMPSON

With this final 2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship team profile, we introduce you to blacksmith Robert (Bob) Alexander, a second-time TAAP master artist, and his new apprentice. This year, Alexander, of DeSoto, Mo., teamed up with Lisa…

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2019 TRADITIONAL ARTS APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM: SMRITA DORAIRAJAN AND CHARUNETHA MURUGESAN

We are excited to introduce you to master artist Smrita Dorairajan and her apprentice Charunetha Murugesan, first-time participants in Missouri’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. Since November 2018, Dorairajan and Murugesan, both of Columbia, have been…

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2019 TRADITIONAL ARTS APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM: PEGGY KINDER AND CINDY JARRAR

Meet Peggy Kinder and her 2019 apprentice Cindy Jarrar, enrolled members of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, who reside in Clay County, Missouri. Since 2011, Peggy Kinder has taught in the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program three…

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2019 TRADITIONAL ARTS APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM: PAT McCARTY WITH MATT DICKSON

It’s time to roll out another profile of a 2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program team. Coal, copper, and steel. These are the basic materials that master blacksmith Pat McCarty and his most recent apprentice Matt…

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2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: Carmen S. Dence with Sophia Francis and Ana Sofia Remolina

Once again, we are excited to roll out a new profile of a 2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program team. Today, we are happy to introduce readers to master Colombian traditional dancer, choreographer, and costume designer…

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2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: Turlach Boylan and Molly McLaughlin

We are excited to continue to roll out profiles of the 2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program teams of master artists and apprentices. This week, we introduce readers to master Irish musician Turlach Boylan and and…

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2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: Ray Joe Hastings and Keith Whiteside

It is with great pleasure that we roll out profiles of the 2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program teams of master artists and apprentices. This week, we are excited to introduce readers to master Ozarks Riverways…

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2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program: Ashalatha Premachandra and Kareena Kanumury

It is with great pleasure that we roll out profiles of the 2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program teams of master artists and apprentices. We are especially delighted to introduce readers to master Bharatanatyam dancer Ashalatha…

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Giving Tuesday 2023 donations welcomed by Missouri Folk Arts

Missouri Folk Arts is thankful to individual donors who have provided unrestricted gift funds that support opportunities for staff and traditional artists beyond those designated in grant-funded projects. Previous examples include apprenticeship support; artistic fees;…

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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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