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Community Scholars Network

Our community scholars are regional culture experts from across Missouri.

MFAP bolstered its advisory network through the Community Scholars Workshop Series in West Plains, St. Louis, Springfield, Ava, Hannibal, Mt. Vernon, Ste. Genevieve, Ironton, Columbia, and Fredericktown. In those workshops, participants gained hands-on experience with digital recording equipment and fieldwork practices during field trips and interviews. In classroom sessions, visiting folklorists and local cultural experts taught participants about interview techniques, archival storage, digital editing, project development, storytelling, and public presentation.

Community Scholars often function today as advisers, presenters, blog writers, and project partners for the Missouri Folk Arts Program.

 

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A Sampler of Missouri Blacksmiths: A Digital Exhibit

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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A TRIBUTE TO VESTA JOHNSON (1922-2021)

We were very sad to hear the news on Friday, March 5, 2021, that master old-time fiddler Vesta Johnson had died. At the same time, we understand from her devoted family that she passed peacefully…

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200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, February 2021

200 Stories, February 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We kicked…

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