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Missouri Folk Arts, Focus Exhibit 2024
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…
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…
DEADLINE HAS PASSED. GUIDELINES AVAILABLE FOR MISSOURI’S 2024 LIVING TRADITIONS SUSTAINER FELLOWSHIPS.
Missouri’s Living Traditions Sustainer Fellowship seeks to recognize the excellence and lifetime achievement of living traditional artists and community scholars in the Show Me State. The fellowships will honor those individuals’ deep-rooted contributions to Missouri’s…
A TRIBUTE TO FR. MOSES BERRY (1950-2024)
We were sad to hear the news that Fr. Moses Berry of Ash Grove, Mo. died on January 12, 2024. Thanks to an introduction by independent scholar Jami Lewis of Mt. Vernon, we at Missouri…