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Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Application Deadline EXTENDED: October 31, 2022
The University of Oregon’s Oregon Folklife Network has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts plus $40,000 from Oregon Arts Commission to support Oregon’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.
Oregon Folklife Network is accepting applications until October 21, 2022 for the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) for projects in 2023. The program offers folk and traditional master artists and culture keepers a $3,500 stipend to teach their art form to apprentices from their same communities, Tribes, sacred or occupational groups. The stipend supports master artists in sharing their knowledge, skills and expertise with apprentices of great promise who will be empowered to carry on and strengthen Oregon’s living cultural traditions. Artist may make public presentations through the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
To learn more about application procedures and eligibility or to recommend a TAAP applicant, visit ofn.uoregon.edu, email ofn@uoregon.edu, or call 541-346-3820. Oregon Folklife Network staff members are available to provide application advice and will review and provide feedback on draft applications prior to submission.
Folklore and Public Culture Spring 2022 Courses
Need Spring Term Courses?
https://folklore.uoregon.edu/welcome/class_schedule/
Folklore and Public Culture Program
PLC 118 – emagee@uoregon.edu
Initial Registration opens February 21st.
Alumn Hillary Tully Published in Western Folklore
Hillary Tully ’18 M.A. in Folklore has just been published in Western Folklore Vol. 81 No. 1 – Winter, 2022: Horror Stories and Pills for Men: Social Complaint in Narratives about Contraception. After working for several years in Eugene, OR at Lane Arts Council, she is now the Executive Director at Arbutus Folk School in Olympia, WA. She says, “My folklore degree gave me the tools and qualifications to become the arts administrator, nonprofit manager, ethnographer, and culture worker I am today.” Through her work as Executive Director Hillary has been creating folk & traditional arts programming. https://mailchi.mp/arbutusfolkschool/2021-annual-report.
Martha Bayless takes a deeper look at queenly slander
Prof. Martha Bayless, Director of Folklore and Public Culture, is working on a new research project about the history of accusations against powerful women, including Queen Eadburh, an eighth-century queen of England and the subject of much historical slander. Her project will analyze how those historical narratives have shaped cultural conversations about powerful women today.
Read all about her research in AroundtheO at https://around.uoregon.edu/content/historians-new-project-takes-deeper-look-queenly-slander?utm_source=ato11-17-21
Fellowship Award – Leah Lowthorp
Congratulations to our own Leah Lowthorp on winning a Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship for her study “Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India”!