Save the Dates: 2025 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcases Come celebrate the achievements of the 2024-25 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program participants! West Virginia Folklife is hosting TWO free showcases featuring demonstrations and performances, open to the public. Refreshments provided. Meet the folklife apprenticeship pairs and learn about traditional arts of West Virginia! Saturday, November 1, 2025 Location: West…
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Meet the 2024-25 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Participants
These 10 pairs from across the Mountain State are carrying on important traditions in old-time music, fiber arts, storytelling, and more.
2022-23 Folklife Apprenticeship Feature: Mushroom Foraging with Sharon Briggs & Anthony Murray
Turkey tail. Lion’s mane. Red reishi. Crown tip coral. These are just a few of the countless mushrooms that Sharon Briggs and her apprentice, Anthony Murray, have found together over more than a decade of friendship and professional collaboration…
2022-23 Folklife Apprenticeship Feature: Soul Food Cooking with Xavier Oglesby & Brooklynn Oglesby
Brooklynn Oglesby apprenticed her uncle, Xavier, to learn their family’s tradition of soul food cooking, a creative practice shaped and passed down by over four generations before her…
2022-23 Folklife Apprenticeship Feature: Appalachian Storytelling with Bil Lepp & James Froemel
When Bil Lepp first entered the West Virginia Liars’ Contest in 1990, he was following in his older brother Paul’s footsteps…
2022-23 Folklife Apprenticeship Feature: Clawhammer Banjo with Joe Herrmann & Dakota Karper
The 2022-2023 round of the West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program was not Joe and Dakota’s first rodeo…
2022-23 Folklife Apprenticeship Feature: Fiddle Repair with Chris Haddox & Mary Linscheid
Chris Haddox and Mary Linscheid are both fiddlers—Chris, neck-deep in traditional Appalachian old-time tunes and lore, and Mary, a sponge for all things West Virginia…
Watch the 2022-2023 Folklife Apprenticeship Showcases
If you missed the West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship showcases last fall, you can now watch the recordings on the West Virginia Folklife YouTube channel! These showcases celebrate traditional art forms in West Virginia and their practitioners who are passing on creative traditional knowledge. The videos are filled with engaging stories, experiences, performances, and conversations among…
2024-2025 Folklife Apprenticeship Application and Guidelines Now Available
2024-2025 Folklife Apprenticeship Application and Guidelines Now Available APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 26, 2024 The West Virginia Folklife Program, a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council, is now accepting applications for its statewide Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Hosted biennially, this program supports traditional artists working with dedicated apprentices on a yearlong apprenticeship in their cultural expression…
“Still Inventing:” A Fiber Arts Apprenticeship between Life-Long Friends
This article is published in the Fall 2023 issue of Goldenseal Magazine. It is written by West Virginia State Folklorist Jennie Williams and edited by Laiken Blankenship. The article is based on an interview recorded by the State Folklorist with the Folklife Apprenticeship pair on March 22, 2023. Barbara Weaner and Enrica McMillon have been…
Save the Dates for the WV Folklife Apprenticeship Showcases
We are celebrating our participants with three West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program showcases! Free and open to the public.
Announcing the 2022-2023 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Participants
We are pleased to announce our 2022-2023 cohort of apprenticeship participants in the third round of the West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Seven apprenticeship pairs from across the Mountain State will study and practice traditions including soul food cooking, fiddle repair, and mushroom foraging. The Folklife Apprenticeship Program offers $3,000 to recognize and honor West…
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