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Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program

Missouri Folk Arts Program cover design for 2022. From top to bottom it reads: FOLK ARTS, Missouri Folk Arts Program, 37th Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program
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.

DEADLINE FOR 2022-2023 SUBMISSIONS IS AUGUST 29, 2022.

Missouri’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program funds master artist and apprentice teams who are committed to sustaining their artistic traditions and cultural heritage. Priority is given to masters and apprentices who share cultural communities. Priority is also given to living art forms with fewer remaining practitioners. The Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program seeks new applicants each year to better represent the spectrum of cultural communities across the state.

Printable Application Available for Download: Point and Click Here 

Leave message for assistance by Folk Arts Specialist Deb Bailey at 573-882-3653 or BaileyDA@missouri.edu for in-depth assistance before August 15, 2022. 


Celebrating the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program

Missouri hosts one of the oldest, continuous statewide folk arts apprenticeship programs in the United States, established in 1984. In that first year, the apprenticeship program featured Missouri’s musical traditions, from old-time and gospel, to blues and jazz. The project sponsored ten apprenticeships. In the following year, the range of art forms was nearly equally divided between music traditions and material culture (saddlemaking, chair building, coverlet weaving, basketmaking, joinery, and blacksmithing).

Since then, over five hundred individual traditional artists–many in underserved rural, inner city, and ethnic communities in every corner of the state–have participated in the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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