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Show Harrelson to demonstrate quill embroidery Linda Harrelson, Davis County traditional artist, has been selected to participate in the second round of the Utah Arts Council's Folk Arts Apprenticeship Project, announced Carol Nixon, UAC director. This project is designed to help Utah's existing cultural communities com-munities conserve, perpetuate and maintain control over their own culturally expressive art forms by offering financial support for custom-designed apprenticeships. Harrelson will instruct Laine Thorn in the intricate art of Shoshone porcupine quillwork embroidery. em-broidery. Utah's only master quillworker who is still active, Harrelson Har-relson has won prizes for her work in many regional competitions. The council solicited applications last fall from accomplished folk and traditional ethnic artists and from less experienced artists who wanted to apprentice with them. Twenty-eight applications were received, and 14, totaling $22,859, were approved by the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors. The grants range from $2,500 for the refinement of Northern Ute beadwork skills and $1,010 to aid in the perpetuation of rawhide braiding to $650 for an apprenticeship appren-ticeship in Native American hoop and fancy dance. Other folk skills that will be perpetuated through the apprenticeship appren-ticeship project include Paiute brain tanning of hides. Southern Ute flute making, African-American metered hymns and chants, East Indian sitar music, Northern Ute beadwork, Japanese Odori dance, Swiss accordion accor-dion music, Euro-American quilting, Swedish weaving, Native American hoop and fancy dance, Maori woodcarving and Navajo weaving. For information on the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Project, call Craig Miller at 533-5760. Guidelines for the 1991 Folk Arts Apprenticeships will be available Oct. 1. r if) f ,. ' v i v LINDA HARRELSON |