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Show Applications available Carol Nixon, director, Utah Arts Council, invites all traditional artists ar-tists wishing to pass their skills onto apprentices to apply for financial assistance through the 1991 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Project sponsored spon-sored by die UAC. Master and apprentice pairs are required to submit a jointly-conceived jointly-conceived plan of study with examples, exam-ples, photographs or tape recordings of their work. Applications will be reviewed by the Folk Arts Advisory Panel. The criteria for selection include the traditional nature of the work, the quality of the work of both the master artist and the apprentice, their shared membership in a particular par-ticular community group, the dedication of the apprentice to the art form, and the likelihood of the project's success. Because each art form and each learning situation has specific needs, grant requests and awards may range up to a maximum of $2,500 for project periods lasting from three months to one year. Funds may be used for master artist's ar-tist's fees, supplies and travel reimbursement. reim-bursement. In Utah, the traditional arts can include centuries-old practices such as Native American basketmaking or ceremonial dancing. Others are traditions characteristic of the nineteenth nine-teenth and early twentieth centuries brought from Europe or trie eastern United States or home-grown in Utah, such as dance music or domestic dom-estic needlecrafts. Artistic traditions imported more recently from foreign lands and maintained here as cherished symbols sym-bols of community identity include Laotian dance and Swiss accordion music, among others. In 1989 the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Appren-ticeship Project appropriated $20,000 to 29 master and apprentice artists, and last year $22,800 was appropriated to 30 artists to assist in conserving and perpetuating traditional tradi-tional art forms ranging from Paiute hide tanning to Maori wood carving. carv-ing. Project guidelines and application applica-tion forms may be obtained by calling call-ing Craig Miller at the Council's Folk Arts Program, 533-5760. Applications Ap-plications must be postmarked or delivered to the Utah Arts Council offices, 617 E. S. Temple, Salt Lake City, by Nov. 30. |
