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Photographed in black and white, Roger Curry sits in the foreground of the photo. Roger is a middle-aged tan skinned man, he appears wearing a cap which reads "BOSCH Spark Plugs" wearing dark aviator style glasses and a light colored short sleeve workshirt. Roger appears posing for the photo with a smile, he holds a "U" shaped basket handle in both hands. Behind him appears a pick up truck with camper shell, beside three other vehicles

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, JUNE 2021

200 Stories, June 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 an unfinished basement with wooden slats above her head, Mary Luka Kemir stands peering to the right smiling at someone off-camera. Mary is a taller Black woman, her dark black hair is tied in the back in a ponytail. She has high shiny cheeks, and wears a short sleeved white shirt tucked into an African patterned purple and yellow skirt. Mary wears a beaded necklace and holds a saucer to it, scraping the plate against the beads to make music.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, May 2021

200 Stories, May 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…

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…

A black and white close up photo of Helen Jeffrey and her apprentice. Helen Jeffrey takes up most of the frame, she is a middle aged white woman with dark brown hair, cut short. She wears large clear framed glasses and peers over at her apprentice with a smiling expression, lips slightly pursed. Helen ears a long sleeved white button down shirt, holding in her hands weaving fabric. Her apprentice watches Helen's hands, a smile on her face. She is a younger white woman with curly hair, a short sleeved white top and a necklace made of individual rolls of thread. She holds onto fabric being weaved.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, April 2021

200 Stories, April 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 the folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State….

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, March 2021

200 Stories, March 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 black and white, Lillie Mabel Hall is photographed cooking for a church's Christmas dinner in 1992. Lillie Mabel Hall is an elderly Black woman, she wears a black dress with white stripes forming a checkered pattern. She wears hoop earrings and a hairnet, a white sleeveless vest completes her look. She holds a bag of active dry yeast in one hand and is adding ingredients to a large mixing bowl with the other hand.

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…

Master gospel vocalist and pianist Doris Frazier photographed performing with her apprentice Peyton Boyd in 2016. Doris Frazier stands behind her apprentice wearing a long sleeve all black outfit, she is an elderly lightskinned Black woman with short cropped grey hair. Her apprentice Peyton Boyd appears beside her wearing a tuxedo top and black bottoms, he is a younger Black male. Peyton Boyd is playing the electric keyboard and singing.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, January 2021

200 Stories, January 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts sought to share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the…

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

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