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Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program 2010
The Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program
September 12, 2010
Now in its eighth year, the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program has drawn from a wide range of communities and traditional folkways to pair an experienced master artist with an eager apprentice for a one-on-one, nine-month learning experience, in order to help ensure that a particular art form is passed on in ways that are conscious of history and faithful to tradition. The master artists are selected from applicants in all forms of Virginia's traditional, expressive culture-from decoy carving to fiddle making, from boat building to quilt making, from country ham curing to old time banjo playing, from African American gospel singing to Mexican folk dancing. The Folklife Apprenticeship Program helps to ensure that Virginia 's treasured folkways continue to receive new life and vibrancy, engage new learners, and reinvigorate master practitioners.
