Comparsa dancer Irene Fernandez at the Queen Cafe

Fieldwork

Dance

Clothing and dress

Costumes

Arts, Cuban

Cuban Americans

Architecture

Signs (commercial)

Nightclubs

Community enterprise

Community culture

Comparsa tradition

Dancers

Eight color slides. Fernandez was a comparsa dancer, a skill she learned from her mother Emelia Fernandez, under whom she apprencticed. She also worked as a registered nurse. More information on Fernandez (mother and daughter) can be found in S 1644, box 10, fodler 13. Murphy was her apprentice in 1990-1991. 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 through 2003.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1640

1991-03

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1640

10

3

Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Stone, Robert, 1944-

Fernandez, Irene, 1962-

Cuban American

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