Yasuko Dawson demonstrating to students how to do origami

Schools

Demonstrations

Classrooms

Japanese Americans

Students

Teaching of folklore

Education

Origami

Paper work

Paper art

Craft

Arts, Japanese

Asian American arts

Asian Americans

Kimonos

Clothing and dress

Art

Artisans

Thirty-seven color slides. Demonstration at Stockton Elementary School. Origami is the Japanese art of paperfolding to create sculptures and symbolic shapes. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curricula. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1985-03-19

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 36

S86-1876 - S86-1885

Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project

Taylor, David, 1951-

Dawson, Yasuko

Japanese American

Asian American

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