Lucreaty Clark teaching Alfonso Jennings white oak basket making

Basket maker

Apprentices

Teaching of folklore

Fieldwork

Basket making

White oak

African Americans

Baskets

Material culture

Basketry

Basket work

Houses

Woodwork

Two proof sheets with 54 black and white images (plus negatives). Clark and her grandson Jennings were among the first participants in the Florida Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program in 1983-1984. As a master folk artist, she taught him how to make white oak baskets. Includes images of Jennings and Clark weaving baskets and chopping white oak, and images of Jennings' home and family. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year until 2003.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1640

1984-04

Florida Folklife Program

Still Image

S1640

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2

Photographic prints

Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Owen, Blanton, 1945-1998

Clark, "Lucreaty" (Lucretia J.), 1904-1986

Jennings, Alphonso, 1962-

African American

1903

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