Featured News | July 5, 2022
The Wyoming Arts Council is pleased to announce the 5 recipients of the fiscal year 2023 Folk & Traditional Arts Mentoring Project Grants. The recipients are:
Folk Art Mentoring Grants are designed to support the continuation of Wyoming’s folk and traditional arts through the process of in-person, hands-on instruction. A master artist works with a dedicated apprentice from their community to mentor over the course of the project in order to advance the skills of the apprentice in their traditional art form. Projects will run from July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023. The grant amount is $3,000.
“Folk and traditional arts are typically learned through informal processes such as observation, imitation, and one-on-one apprenticeships” said Josh Chrysler of the Wyoming Arts Council. “The Folk Art Mentoring Project Grant is designed to create opportunities for those informal, grassroots learning experiences where these art forms are best learned and maintained by the communities from which they come.”
Applications are made jointly between master and apprentice, and reviewed by a panel of experts. This year, the panelists included Audra Draper (Master Bladesmith, previous mentor artist); Crystal C’Bearing (Deputy Director, Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Office); Thomas Grant Richardson (Director of Center for Washington Cultural Traditions); and Andrea Graham (Folklife Specialist, American Studies, University of Wyoming). For more information contact Josh Chrysler at joshua.chrysler@wyo.gov or 307-256-2010, or visit the grants tab at wyomingartscouncil.org.
The Wyoming Arts Council believes that experiencing the arts should be accessible for all, including people with mental and/or physical disabilities, older adults, military/veterans, people living in institutions and those who lack access to the arts due to geographic isolation, cultural difference and economic hardship.
