[OMS_MANAGERS] Folklife Fieldwork in the Portland Metro--need suggestions for folk and traditional artists in

[Riki H Saltzman]

All,

I'm really sorry to be sending you this request so late in our schedule for identifying and documenting folk & traditional artists in the 5 counties that make up the Portland Metro: Washington, Multnomah, Yamhill, Columbia, and Clackamas.  Please see attached for details (originally sent out to the media in October). We could especially use some assistance with contacts in Yamhill County.


As Oregon's Folk & Traditional Arts Program, the OFN wants to find excellent folk artists and culture keepers. We are looking for master artists to serve as mentors for the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. OFN will include the best of those documented in our Roster, an online curated resource for local festivals, parks, school, and library programs looking for performers, demonstrators, and speakers.



OFN Folklorists Douglas Manger, Nancy Nusz, and Makaela Kroin will be in the Portland Metro during November 2016 to identify and document culture keepers. Biographies for each folklorist are at the end of this release [see attached for more details and bios].



OFN will be working with a range of cultural partners such as World Pulse, the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (especially IRCO's Asian Family Center and Africa House), Lan Su Chinese Gardens, Milagro Theatre, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and our operational partners (Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Cultural Trust). We'll be creating public programs and working with 10 community scholars from diverse communities to provide training in self-documentation.



We are eager for contact information for traditional musicians, dancers, quilters, embroiderers, storytellers, fly-tiers, cooks, artisans, and more from the Portland Metro's residents. We very much want to hear from the range of Portland's communities: Native American, African American, European (English, German, Greek, Irish, Jewish, Norwegian, Scottish), Africans (from Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Liberia, Chad, Togo), Asian and Pacific Islander (Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Hawai'ian, Japanese, Korean, Khmer, Lao, Hmong, Mien, Thai, Vietnamese), Latino (Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Nicaraguan, Columbia), and Middle Eastern (Iraqi, Israeli, Lebanese, Palestinian, Persian, Turkish).

Please send any contacts you have right now directly to Douglas Manger (douglas at heritageworks.net<mailto:douglas at heritageworks.net>).  If you come up with ideas after December 2, feel free to send those contacts to Makaela Kroin (makaelak at uoregon.edu); Makaela will be doing more work to document culture keepers in the new year.

Thanks so much!

Riki

Rachelle H Saltzman, PhD, Executive Director
Oregon Folklife Network
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541-346-3820
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