Margaret Garrison demonstrating basket making to students

Education

Schools

Classrooms

Elementary schools

Students

Teaching of folklore

Baskets

Basket making

Basketry

Craft

Demonstrations

Material culture

Domestic arts

Sweetgrass baskets

Pine needle crafts

Palmetto weaving

Basket maker

Twenty-four color slides. Garrison demonstrating basket making (using sweet grass, pine needles, and palmetto) to students at Oceanway Elementary School. 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 curriculum. 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, 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

1985-11-12

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 37

S86-2029 - S86-2052

Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project

Taylor, David, 1951-

Garrison, Margaret, 1944-

African American

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