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Quilted pillow, Colombian straw hat, hand-forged horseshoe heart rest on the caned seat of a chair

End of Year 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 artistic fees; travel; fees…

Roadside marker for Ste. Genevieve's Weeping Tree

Weeping Tree at Ste. Genevieve: Missouri’s Second Legends & Lore Marker Installed

Exciting news! Additional Missouri community adds Legends & Lore marker! Ste. Genevieve Tourism Department installed a roadside marker this year that tells the story of an unusual phenomenon related to noted U.S. Senator and physician…

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…

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…

Frank "Scotty" Rees poses for a photo in his meat processing cooler. Scotty is an older white male with white hair and clear round glasses. He wears a gray shirt, denim overalls, with a green ball cap. A white apron with an R protects his clothing from the butchering process, a piece of meat in his right hand and a knife in his left. Behind him is pork drying on a shelf, the foreground of the photo features slices of pork.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, December 2021

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

Photographed at a Jefferson Landing performance in 2017, master banjo player Van Colbert and apprentice Cindy Parry. Vance Colbert sits left, he is an elderly white male with a longer white beard. He wears thin metal circular eyeglasses, a light brown fedora. He wears a neon yellow printed shirt and a brown vest, light blue jeans, and hightop black converse shoes. He plays banjo while looking at his apprentice Cindy Parry, right. Cindy Parry is an elderly white woman with greying pixie cut hair. She wears a short sleeve purple and orange plaid button down, a pair of denim jeans, and brown cowboy boots. Cindy holds a banjo and is looking down in front of herself.

200 STORIES, FEATURING VAN COLBERT

Ahead of the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, the National Endowment for the Arts seeded folklife programs across the country, leading to our own folk and traditional arts program anchored at the University of Missouri. In Missouri’s…

200 STORIES, FEATURING DR. JAMES PRICE

Dwayne Bosman photographed in black and white beside his apprentice. Bosman appears on the left side of the photo. Bosman is a Black male with short black hair, he wears an long-sleeve black shirt as well as long black pants. In his hands is a saxophone, which he is playing. Beside Bosman appears his apprentice, who is a lighter skinned Black male wearing a black newsboy cap. The apprentice wears a light colored sweater over a black turtleneck, dark pants with a black belt. The apprentice also holds and is playing a saxophone. In front of the pair is a black music stand, another saxophone resting on the floor beside it.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, November 2021

200 Stories, November 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…

Photographed standing beside one another under an outdoor pavilion, Wendi Wald left and Dona McKinney. Wendi Wald is a lighter skinned Native American woman with long brown hair braided in two plats going down her chest, they have white circular ribbons at the end. She wears a pair of black sunglasses and a long black dress with Native patchwork designs on the sleeve and hems. Beside her Dona McKinney stands with one arm over Wendi's shoulder. Dona is a lighter skinned Native American woman, she wears a longsleeve plaid shirt buttoned halfway, a white tank top beneath that and a light wash denim skirt.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, October 2021

200 Stories, October 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…

Photographed in daylight, the Yeater Ghost Legends and Lore Marker stands in the foreground of the photo. The sign itself is a golden yellow bordered red sign, the golden yellow font too small to read. Behind the sign is a the Laura J. Yeater Hall building, a large red brick and limestone building with 4 levels.

Learn More about Legends & Lore Marker Grants

Missouri’s first Legends & Lore Marker grant has been installed! William G. Pomeroy Foundation awarded a grant to the University of Central Missouri‘s McClure Archives and University Museum in Warrensburg, marking the legend of the…

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