Identifier
NFAI.O.00000012
Date
1981 - 1996 (Inclusive dates)
Scope and Content Note
Collection contains apprenticeship applications, correspondence to and about applicants, lists of apprenticeships and site visits, newspaper clippings about apprenticeship monies available and announcing deadlines, photographs of apprentices and their work, printed materials, reports, and summaries of grants. There are materials on individual apprentices, the apprenticeship booklet, Keeping it Alive, and the program itself as well as 31 cassette tapes with 17 indexes containing recordings of these visits.
Administrative/Biographical History Element
"In the spirit of cultural conservation, the Division of the Arts awards apprenticeship grants to qualified master folk artists enabling them to work with apprentices from within their communities to pass on an endangered art form or tradition. From 1985-1999 thirty-two folk artists representing Louisiana's diverse folk cultures have received apprenticeships. An additional six have received apprenticeships from the National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program."
Owens, Maida. 1999. “Louisiana Folklife: Keeping It Alive.” Louisiana Folklife Program. http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Virtual_Books/Keeping_It/creole_book_keep_intro.html.
System of Arrangement
Materials may be found in the following series within the Louisana Folklife Program Project Files:
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Series XXIV. Oral History
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Series XXXIII. Fellowship and Apprenticeship Records
General Note
Cover image is a photograph of Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana, more information on Montana and the traditions of the Mardi Gras Indians are available on the Louisiana Folklife Program Website.
Collection is available for review at LSU Libraries Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge, La.
Extent
0.3 (linear feet)
31 (cassette tapes)
Language
English (Languages)
Other Subject Headings
Apprentices (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Apprenticeship programs--Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Folk artists--Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Jackson, Joyce M. (Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT))
Montana, Allison Marcel, 1922- (Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT))
Temporal Coverage
1981 - 1996
Geographic Coverage
Acadia parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Assumption parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Avoyelles parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Caddo parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Claiborne parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
East Baton Rouge parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Evangeline parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Jefferson Davis parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Lafayette parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
LaSalle parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Orleans parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Rapides parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Saint Landry parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Saint Martin parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Saint Mary parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Saint Tammany parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Terrebonne parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Union parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Vermilion parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Washington parish (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Preferred Citation
Louisiana Folklife Program Project Files, Mss. 4730, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
