Traditional Arts Apprenticeships
Funding List
Fiscal Year 2023 Total: $180,000
Apprenticeships
Name | City/Town | Grant |
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Aimaiti (Ablikim) Abulikemu (Emet) | Lexington | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Munawwar Abdulla to teach Uyghur calligraphy, a historically significant traditional art form with over a dozen styles. |
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Andre R. Gaines | Grafton | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Nazario Daishuan to teach traditional brain-tanning, paddle-making, wampum, and other crafts, via oral tradition. |
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Beth Bahia Cohen | Watertown | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Rebecca MacInnes to teach the violin in traditional Greek music, both repertoire and improvisation. |
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Chris Pantazelos | Lowell | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Jesse Collins to teach lutherie, construction, and restoration of traditional and ethnic string instruments. |
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Isaura Oliveira | Boston | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Brittany Owens to teach Samba Traditional do Recôncavo da Bahia, Brasil. |
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John J. Abarta | Stoughton | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Eva Meier to teach the traditional art form of the uilleann pipes, the national bagpipe of Ireland. |
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Jorge L. Santiago-Arce | Boston | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Sandra Marcelino to teach Bomba and Plena: African Retention in Puerto Rico; North, West and South-East African ancients roots |
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Judy Bressler | Sharon | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Adah Hetko to teach Yiddish song tradition and Yiddish dance leading. |
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Karen Young | Boston | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Micah Rose to teach Taiko as it has developed in a North American context with roots in the Asian American movement. |
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Laurel Martin | Westford | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Fern Tamagini-O’Donnell to teach regional styles of traditional Irish fiddling. |
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Ling Chu | Boston | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Abby Lin to teach Long ribbon dance of Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618) about one though five hundred years ago. |
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Paul Rishell | Newton | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Ira Klein to teach Country Blues repertoire and guitar techniques invented by African-American songwriters in the 1920s. |
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Sharon Correnty | Pepperell | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Christine Brown to teach quilting utilizing fabric that has been naturally dyed through the growing and harvesting of plants. |
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Stelvyn Mirabal | Lawrence | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship to teach Leonardo Mirabal Dominican Carnival traditions (including parade, mask-making and costumes). |
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Sunanda Sahay | Acton | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Anjana Bhargava to teach Mithila painting, an ancient art form practiced by rural women near the Indian border with Nepal. |
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Urmi Samadar | Belmont | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Nandini Lal to teach Kathak, a North Indian classical dance that emphasizes footwork, pirouettes, and improvisation. |
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Vincent Crotty | Boston | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Lori Greene to teach traditional sign painting, Celtic knot work, and decorative painting from Ireland. |
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Zhonghe (Elena) Li | Cambridge | $10,000 |
for an apprenticeship with Jayson Wang to teach Chinese traditional papercutting with a pair of scissors. |