Masters and Apprentices – Missouri Art Council

Masters and Apprentices Strengthen
Missouri’s Folk Arts Web

At the heart of the Missouri Folk Arts Program are the intense one-on-one relationships of the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. A master artist meets frequently and works closely with an apprentice artist to impart the master’s knowledge and develop the apprentice’s skills. Since the first TAAP lesson 30 years ago, there have been 374 apprenticeships in arts such as cowboy poetry, bobbin lace, paddle carving, Slovenian button-box accordion, and Vietnamese dragon dancing. This Saturday, May 30, and next Saturday, June 6, TAAP celebrates its 30th anniversary with performances and demonstrations by TAAP alumni in special events at Missouri State Parks. We celebrate in the latest feature story on our website.

Masters and Apprentices Strengthen Missouri’s Folk Arts Web was created in May 2015 for the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency and division of the Department of Economic Development. The Missouri Arts Council provides grants to nonprofit organizations that meet our strategic goals of increasing participation in the arts in Missouri, growing Missouri’s economy using the arts, and strengthening Missouri education through the arts. For information, contact moarts@ded.mo.gov.

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