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Arts and Access
Most of our friends, followers, and constituents know that the Missouri Folk Arts Program is based at the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri. MFAP has been anchored at the Museum since…
THEN AND NOW: APPRENTICE JOURNEYS WITH FIDDLER JOHN P. WILLIAMS, JR.
We’re happy to launch our fourth Then and Now: Apprentice Journeys video! Please visit our Missouri Folk Arts Program YouTube channel to watch Folk Arts Director Lisa Higgins interview master fiddler John P. Williams, Jr. In April 2016 at…
BOUILLON – A MISSOURI FRENCH TRADITION, BY ROBERT MUELLER
Welcome back once again to Stories from the Field and a new post in our Show-Me Folk blog. The blog is our dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share…
LARRY GODSEY AND SUSTAINABLE NICHE AGRICULTURE, BY CLAIRE SCHMIDT
Welcome back once again to Stories from the Field and a new post in our Show-Me Folk blog. The blog is our dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share…
Then and Now: Apprentice Journeys with Storyteller Gladys Caines Coggswell
We’re happy to launch our third Then and Now: Apprentice Journeys video! Visit our Missouri Folk Arts Program YouTube channel to watch. In May 2017 at the St. Louis Storytelling Festival, Missouri Folk Arts Program director Lisa L. Higgins…
The HEAR Now Festival Celebrates Audio Fiction in Kansas City, by Gladys Caines Coggswell
Welcome back to Stories from the Field and the lates post in our Show-Me Folk blog. The blog is our dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo…
A TRIBUTE TO Jennie Cummings, 1932-2017
We were so incredibly sad to hear the news that our friend and colleague Jennie Cummings, founding director of the Mountain View Cowboy Poetry Gathering, died October 29. The obituary posted below hits on her…
Liver Dumplings, a Local Foodway in Southeastern Missouri, by Mary Peura
Welcome back to Stories from the Field and a new post in our Show-Me Folk blog. The blog is our dedicated space for staff, student workers, traditional artists, cultural experts, consultants, and community scholars to share photo…
Then and Now: Apprentice Journeys with Western Saddlemaker Mike Massey
We’re happy to launch our second Then and Now: Apprentice Journeys video at the Missouri Folk Arts Program YouTube channel, where we are posting occasional videos from the field. In November 2016, Jackson Medel filmed Then and…
H.K. SILVEY, THE OZARKS FIDDLER WHO MADE IT TO THE MOON, from Kaitlyn McConnell’s “Ozarks Alive”
When fiddler H.K. Silvey was a boy in rural Ozark County, a down-the-road town seemed nearly as far away as the moon. Enjoy this blog post and photos from Kaitlynn McConnell’s Ozarks Alive. You’ll learn not…