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Biographical/Historical:
Legislation in 1979 (79-322, SB 1208) transferred the Florida Folk Arts component of the Stephen Foster Memorial to the Florida Department of State. Operating as the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs from ca. 1985 until 1995, the Bureau coordinated the annual Florida Folk Festival and directed such programs as Folk Arts Apprenticeships, Folk Arts in Education, Folk Heritage awards, annual research surveys and numerous other projects and programs. From 1995 through June 30, 2021, the renamed and reorganized Florida Folklife Program continued the majority of these operations from within the Division of Historical Resources, Bureau of Historic Preservation in Tallahassee. During the 1995 reorganization, the State Archives of Florida acquired the Florida Folklife Collection from the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs’ previously maintained Florida Folklife Archives. Legislation in 2021 (2021-71, L. O. F., HB 909) transferred the Florida Folklife Program and its operations from the Division of Historical Resources to the newly renamed Division of Arts and Culture, previously the Division of Cultural Resources, effective July 1, 2021. The program is charged to "identify, research, interpret, and present Florida folk arts, artists, performers, folklore, traditions, customs, and cultural heritage and make folk cultural resources and folklife projects available throughout the state."
The Florida Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 and was designed to recognize and encourage the folk arts in Florida. The program was renamed the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program years later. It provided individuals who had demonstrated an aptitude for and a commitment to a particular folk art with an opportunity to study intensively over an extended period with expert practitioners of the art. To apply, interested masters and apprentices filed a joint application after discussing the potential apprenticeship. The decision to award an apprenticeship is evaluated by a committee based on the apprentice's involvement in the community that supported the tradition, authenticity of the master's work and relevance of the tradition to Florida's folklife.
Summary:
This series contains administrative files for the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program, originally named the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, from 1983 to 1995. The files contain National Endowment for the Arts grant applications and materials, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs grant applications and materials, annual booklet and other publication materials, budgets, press releases, apprenticeship plans for the Folk Festival, etcetera. Also included in this series are materials on and from the masters and apprentices who applied to the program, including applications, work samples, contracts, meeting logs and sample media. Materials for both awarded and unawarded applications are included.
Finding Aids:
Searchable index to visual and audio materials is available online at http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/
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Associated Materials:
For unawarded apprenticeship applications prior to 1996, see S1639, Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program unawarded applications. For fieldwork and supplemental materials related to the program, see S1640, Folklife Apprenticeship Program fieldwolk.
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General Note:
Included in this series is a 3.5" floppy disk containing electronic copies of some of the correspondence and drafts of publications. Most of the electronic files can be found in the hard copies within the collection. This material was copied from a number of 5.25" floppy disks which could not be accessed because of obsolesence.
Electronic Records Access:
Subject Access Fields:
Apprentices Florida Folk artists Florida Folk music Florida Folk singers Florida Artisans Florida Apprenticeship programs Florida Folklife.
Machine-readable artifacts. aat Photographs. aat Contracts. aat Grant proposals. aat Sound recordings. aat Audio cassettes. aat Audio tapes. aat
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