Oregon Folklife Program

Scope and Contents note The 4-H Project collection currently has color slides, B&W and color photos, curriculum materials, field notes and recordings. The Oregon Folklife Program in partnership with the Oregon State 4-H Extension Program developed a pilot program, Portraits of Oregon: Youth Exploring Culture and Community. OFP and the Oregon State 4-H Extension worked with 4-H agents, leaders and teen club members in five rural Oregon counties (Coos, Jefferson, Josephine, Malheur, and Washington) to document...

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Non-project related artist images

Scope and Contents note The Artquake collection comprises of color slides and sound recordings of folk arts performances at the festivals. Artquake was a Portland arts festival held on the South Park Blocks in August. In 1994, the Oregon Folklife Program was invited to present traditional arts of the Metro-area. "It's Festival Time, Celebrating Traditions" featured traditional musicidancers, storytellers on two stages, and craftspeople at a special demonstration area.Traditions presented included...

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An Exhibit of Traditional Asian Art

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Any Commercial, Published or demo recording; incl

Scope and Contents note This binder holds color slides, B&W and color photo, flyers and programs from various community cultural events that were documented by the OFP staff over the years. The events include the Klamath Tribe Dancers (1991), Mien New Year celebration (1991), Siletz Pow Wow (1992), Lao New Year celebration (1995), Japanese Ichibana Festival (1995), Tet - Vietnamese New Year celebration (1996), the Warm Springs Pow Wow (1996), Navaratri altar (1997), Cinco de Mayo festival (1998), Vietnamese...

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Series comprises 125 color slides and B&W and color photos documenting Latino artists residencies at Portland Metro area high schools in 2000-2001.

Scope and Contents note The Events Grant collection contains color slides and B&W and color photographs from a variety of unrelated events and projects that took place in 1993 and 1994. A range of folk arts events including festivals, a video project and community documentation gathered in 1994 and 1995.Color slides in this collection are of the following: Mt. Olivet Gospel Choir; Celebrating Traditions festival; Plateau-style beaded bag by Sophie George; Ukrainian embroidery; Swedish dahlmaling;...

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Collection includes copies of sound recordings of oral history interviews from the Florence, Oregon area conducted by Kim Stafford and the Siuslaw Pioneer Museum in the 1970s.

Scope and Contents note The Folk Arts In Education collection includes color slides, B&W and color photographs, two student magazines, two learning units, program notes and artifacts. Beginning from the fieldwork undertaken in the Three Underserved Communities Project in 1992 to the present, the Folk Arts in Education project incorporates fieldwork in designated communities, the development of curriculum materials, and placing artists in schools to enhance folk arts education in Oregon schools.This...

Scope and Contents note The Four Communities Survey collection contains color slides and B&W photographs, cassette recordings, and program announcements. The 1994 survey focused on folklife in the Tri-County (Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties) and Clark County, Southern Washington. The purpose of this fieldwork was to identify folk artists and develop new venues for them to participate in public programming, especially at the Oregon History Center where the Oregon Folklife Program is located....

Scope and Contents note Artes Traditionales en la Communidad is a collection of color slides and B&W and color prints, field recordings, professional recordings, ephemera and artifacts from a statewide project to serve the needs of Latino communities. The project was established to: 1) build an on-going statewide Latino Arts & Culture network through an e-group and an annual conference; 2) coordinate traditional artists residencies in Latino communities statewide; and 3) develop a plan for a future summer...

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Major exhibit at OHS and website

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Slide presentation for temporary exhibit at OHS

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Latino youth documenting culture and tradition

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Community arts partnership with RACC

Scope and Contents note Oregon Folk Arts Program, Early Years is a collection of images, cassette tape recordings, books, ephemera and notes from 1988 through 1992 and included several early projects. In the beginning years, the OFP was establishing itself as a statewide folk arts program through outreach, fieldwork surveys and exhibitions. Joanne Mulcahy, the first folkife program director, founded the archives and entered those materials, although that system was completely changed years later.The...

Abstract The Oregon Folklife Program provided statewide services supporting folklife, traditional arts and artists, and folk arts in education in Oregon from 1988 to 2009, first at Lewis and Clark College, 1988-1993, and then the Oregon Historical Society, 1993-2009. This collection comprises the Oregon Folklife Program’s records, 1988-2009, including folklore fieldwork documentation in the form of photographs, sound recordings, and video recordings of cultural events and traditional arts and artists...

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cultural tourism brochures

Scope and Contents note The Regional Arts Councils Survey contains color slides, B&W and color prints/negatives, fieldnotes, a folklife festival feasibility study, newspaper clippings, program flyers and other ephemera collected during an eight-month folk arts survey in nine counties. The Folk Arts Coordinator worked with six regional arts council directors to assist them in identifying folk artists in their regions and developing folk arts programming. The binders are organized by the regional arts councils -...

Scope and Contents note The Rural Libraries Project records is a compilation of color slides, B&W photos, field notes, and artifacts from the Latin Arts and Culture in Rural Libraries Project. The project aimed to be a creative approach to the promotion of literacy and use of the library's resources within the Latin community. Libraries that participated are in Coos Bay, Independence, Klamath Falls, McMinnville, Milton-Freewater, Newport, Ontario, The Dalles, and Woodburn.Activities in each library...

Scope and Contents note Three Underserved Communities project collection comprises color slides, B&W photographs, student magazines and videos of maritime and Mexican folklife. This project targeted three communities that were not being served by the Oregon Folk Arts Program: Lincoln County's maritime, Hermiston's Mexican American, and Portland's African American communities. From 1992 to 1994, Nancy Nusz trained and directed community researchers in each site to document their community traditions. The project...

Scope and Contents note The Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program collection consists of color slides, B&W and color photographs, cassette recordings of interviews with the master artists, studio recordings, artifacts and print materials documenting the apprenticeships.The Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP), an annual program from 1989-2001, awarded monetary stipends ($1,500 until 2001 then $2,000) to ten master traditional artists to teach specific cultural traditions to one or more...

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Traditional Arts of the Oregon Country