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Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive
Title, Dates:
Florida Folk Art Survey fieldwork and correspondence files, 1985-1989.
Amount:
1.75 cubic ft.
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Arranged by fieldworker and then alphabetical by folder heading (usually by county name).
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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."
The Florida Folk Art Survey was conducted from 1986 to 1989 in an effort to develop a definitive exhibit of national significance on the material folk arts of Florida.
Summary:
This series contains the fieldwork records and some of the administrative material for the Florida Folk Art Survey which took place between 1986 and 1989. The fieldwork records include slides, informant information sheets, audio tapes, and informant depositor agreements. The informant information sheets contain information about the folk artists (name, address, folk art, and short biography about the artist and how and when the craft was learned).
Merri Belland, Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Nancy Michael, and Barbara Seitz were the fieldworkers on this survey. Each field worker was assigned a section of the state consisting of a number of counties. The survey included folk artists involved in blacksmithing, quilt making, wood carving, tatting, weaving, whip making, saddle making and Greek-American culture as well as other fields.
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Searchable index to images and sound recordings available online at http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/ Folder listing available.
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Folk art Florida Folk artists Florida Folklore Florida Quiltmakers. Wood-carvers Florida Greek Americans Florida Blacksmithing Florida Whips Florida Sugarcane Syrups. Basket making Florida Saddlery. Tatting Florida Tile craft Weaving Weaving Florida Folklife.
Machine-readable artifacts. aat Surveys. aat Slides. aat Audio cassettes. aat Audio tapes. aat
Dade County (Fla.) Duval County (Fla.) Leon County (Fla.) De Soto County (Fla.) Santa Rosa County (Fla.) Sarasota (Fla.) Tarpon Springs (Fla.) Florida Surveys
for detailed listing.