Show Me Folk
Missouri Folk Arts Program Awarded a Missouri Humanities Grant for Speakers Series
Missouri Humanities has awarded a $12,550 grant to the Missouri Folk Arts Program to support an event series that shares the meaning and matter of its Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP), one of the oldest…
Missouri Folk Arts, Focus Exhibit 2024-2025
Thanks for visiting to learn more about Missouri Folk Arts and the Focus Exhibit! Missouri Folk Arts is excited to curate a designated display case in our home at the University of Missouri’s Museum of…
Deadline has passed! GUIDELINES NOW AVAILABLE FOR 2025 LIVING TRADITIONS FELLOWSHIPS
Missouri Folk Arts invites nominations for the 2025 Living Traditions Fellowships. These awards seek to recognize the excellence and lifetime achievement of living traditional artists and community scholars in the Show Me State. The fellowships…
Ozarks Community Scholar Suzi Vause–What She did this Summer
Welcome back to Stories from the Field and a new post in our Show Me Folk blog. The blog is dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo essays on…
Missouri’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program turns 40! Applications are now CLOSED.
Missouri’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program turns 40! Deadline has passed for 2024 With grant funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and Missouri Arts Council, mentoring master artists and their apprentices commit to sustaining their artistic traditions…
Looking for Treasures in the Archives, by John P. Williams
Welcome back to Stories from the Field and a new post in our Show Me Folk blog. The blog is dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo essays on…
Sharon Bear Foehner, 2024 Living Traditions Sustainer Fellow
Sharon Bear Foehner, St. Louis, Mo. Blues Musician As a child, Sharon Bear Foehner trained as a classical musician, playing bass violin. Then, she picked up the guitar in 1977. Landing in St. Louis ten…
Missouri Folk Arts Program Announces 2024 Living Traditions Sustainer Fellows
Missouri Folk Arts Program Announces 2024 Living Traditions Sustainer Fellows May 13, 2024 COLUMBIA, MO – The Missouri Folk Arts Program is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2024 Missouri Living Traditions Sustainer Fellowship, the…
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR TRADITIONAL ARTISTS IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
Missouri Folk Arts’ staff is on the lookout for traditional artists in Northwest Missouri counties, from St. Joseph the the NW corner of the state, with particular focus on Andrew, Atchison, Holt, Nodaway, and Worth….
FROM KOMU 8–HALLSVILLE FIDDLE FESTIVAL KEEPS MISSOURI TRADITIONS ALIVE
At the link, find a KOMU 8 news story that aired March 10, 2024, as well as a longer narrative version of the story. https://www.komu.com/news/video-hallsville-fiddle-festival-keeps-missouri-traditions-alive/video_a3d8aeef-cf52-50a4-a2a8-9bd5165eb68d.html Thanks to Mizzou’s “Missouri Method” of teaching journalism, we were…