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"Just Above the Water: Florida Folklife Art" Project and Exhibit records, 1999-2001, 2004-2006.
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.50 cubic ft. 25 audio tapes
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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."
Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art is a book examining visual folk arts and artists in Florida. Kristen Congdon, a professor of film and philosophy at the University of Central Florida, and Tina Bucuvalas, then state folklorist of Florida, coauthored the work. The book was the culmination of a five-year project that included on-site research, interviews with folk artists, and photographs of the artist's work. A traveling exhibit based on the book was later produced by the Museum of Florida History's TREX program. The exhibit highlights the life and works of thirty-five Florida folk artists.
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This series consists of records, including audio recordings, from the Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art book project and exhibit. Records from the book project include interview recordings, research materials, and contracts. Records from the exhibit include administrative records, outreach materials, publications, and visitor sign-in forms.
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The published book, Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art, is available with the State Library of Florida.
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Florida Folklife Program University of Central Florida.
Folk artists Florida Folk art Florida
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