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.
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…
A New Research Project with the Mountain Weavers Guild
We are excited to announce that West Virginia Folklife, a program of the West Virginia Humanities Council, received a Folk and Traditional Arts Experiences grant from Mid Atlantic Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions program (CALT) to work collaboratively with the Mountain Weavers Guild in Elkins, West Virginia on a project titled “An Archival and Ethnographic…
A Summer at the Augusta Heritage Center
A version of this article is published in the Winter 2023 issue of Goldenseal magazine. It is written by West Virginia State Folklorist Jennie Williams and edited by Laiken Blankenship. The Augusta Heritage Center celebrated its 50th anniversary of providing enriching educational programming in the folk and traditional arts in 2023. In the summer, the Center hosts three…
“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…
West Virginia Folklife Presents Virtual Apprenticeship Showcase: “Sheep-to-Shawl”- The Art of Raising Sheep & Creating Fiber Arts
Please join us on Thursday, June 17th at noon, for a virtual apprenticeship showcase featuring sheep farmer and textile artist Kathy Evans of Preston County and apprentice Margaret Bruning of Randolph County. The pair, who recently completed their 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship year, will screen a video about their apprenticeship in sheep husbandry and fiber arts and hold a Q&A.
2020 Folklife Apprenticeship Feature: Kathy Evans & Margaret Bruning, “Sheep to Shawl”
Kathy Evans of Bruceton Mills is leading an apprenticeship titled “Sheep to Shawl: The Art of Raising Sheep and Creating Fiber Arts,” with apprentice Margaret Bruning of Elkins.
Announcing Our 2020-2021 Master Artists & Apprentices!
We are excited to announce our 20202-2021 class of master artist and apprentice pairs in the West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program. In this second year of the Program, seven apprentice pairs from across the Mountain State will study traditions including old-time banjo of central West Virginia, seedsaving, and midwifery. The Apprenticeship Program offers up to…
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