Olga Hamblett showing tatting (lacemaking) to elementary school students

Merchants

Executives

Fieldwork

Teaching of folklore

Students

Elementary schools

Demonstrations

Classrooms

Children

Education

Tatting

Material culture

Lacemaking

Lace and lace making

Colombian Americans

Latinos

Decorative arts

Twenty color slides. Demonstrating at two different schools: Loxahatchee Groves and H.L. Johnson elementary schools. A French art that many perform in Colombia. She learned from a classmate (Ana Rita) at a Colombian Catholic school as a child. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. 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. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1685

1987-11

Florida Folklife Program

H. L. Johnson Elementary School (Royal Palm Beach, Fla.)

Loxahatchee Groves Elementary School (Loxahatchee, Fla.)

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1685

v. 10

Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Rosenberg, Jan

Hamblett, Olga, 1939-

Colombian American

Latino

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