Pairing experienced master artists with eager learners, folklife
apprenticeships in Virginia help ensure that a particular art form
is passed on in ways that are conscious of history and faithful to
tradition. With "In Good Keeping: Virginia's Folklife
Apprenticeships," author Jon Lohman and photographer Morgan Miller
chronicle the first five years of the program, capturing the
masters and apprentices at work. The participating master artists
comprise some of Virginia's most celebrated practitioners of folk
traditions both old and new to Virginia -- from canning to snake
cane carving, from bluegrass fiddling to broom making, from
flatfooting to kathak dancing. The apprentices learn their chosen
craft not in classrooms or lecture halls, but in their traditional
contexts -- such as local dance halls, churches, woodshops,
stables, and garages. Helping to ensure that Virginia's treasured
folkways remain in good keeping for years to come, the Folklife
Apprenticeship Program offers new life and vibrancy by engaging new
learners and reinvigorating the lifelong masters.
Richly illustrated with photographs and featuring the voices of
participants in apprenticeships from a diverse range of traditions
across the commonwealth, the book provides a window into not only
the traditional artistic processes and tricks of the trade, but
also the practitioners' reflections on the significance of their
craft, their motivations for maintaining and teaching it, and the
very concept of the tradition itself.
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