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Record Group Number: 000158
Series/Collection Number: .S 2718
Creator: Florida Folklife Program.
Title, Dates: Chipola Junior College Surveys records, 1987-1988, 1998-2000.
Amount: 1.00 cubic ft.
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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 Chipola Junior College files were provided to the Florida Folklife Program, care of Blaine Q. Waide, in 2011. They were donated by Jan Rosenberg, the folklorist and consultant hired by the Southern Arts Federation to document folklife in the five counties during the month of September 1988 and Ms. Joan Stadsklev, the program administrator who directed the establishment of the Rural Arts Initiative at Chipola Junior College. The Initiative was created to sponsor the establishment of a folklife festival and a rural folk art center at Chipola Junior College in Marianna Florida, serving a rural region that includes Holmes, Washington, Jackson, Calhoun, and Liberty counties. Chipola Junior College received federal funding for this initiative in 1987 from the Southern Arts Federation.

    In 1998 through 2000, Chipola Junior College conducted a Florida Panhandle Folklife Survey. This survey was funding by the Division of Historical Resources and aimed to document the traditional culture of Florida's Panhandle region and develop a comprehensive plan to interpret and present the region's folklife. First Joan Stadsklev, then Tina Bucuvalas, served as the Florida Folklife Program staff liaison for this survey. laura Ogden, recommended by Stadsklev, was the contracted anthropologist for Chipola Junior College.
Summary:     This series includes field and workshop notes, slides, transcripts, memos, reports, correspondence, grant applications, and other items associated with Florida Panhandle folklife surveys sponsored by the Chipola Junior College Rural Arts Initiative.

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Subject Access Fields: Florida Folklife Program
Folklife.
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Washington (D.C.)
Liberty County (Fla.)
Jackson County (Fla.)
Holmes County (Fla.)
Calhoun County (Fla.)
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