Images of saddle maker Michael Wilder with his apprentice Gregory Gaughan

Saddle maker

Fieldwork

Saddlery

Saddles

Leather craft

Leather goods

Horses Equipment and supplies

Ranchers

Apprentices

Leather workers

35 color slides. Gaughan was funded to learn from Wilder how to make two saddles and design his own patterns. For more information, see S 1644, box 12, folder 6. 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, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1640

1995-01

Florida Folklife Program

photographs

Still Image

S1640

18

Box A

Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Stone, Robert, 1944-

Wilder, Michael, 1954-

Gaughan, Gregory, 1963-

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