2019 Traditional Arts

Type:
Teleconference

Scheduled:
9/19/2017 2:00:00 PM

Name:
2019 Traditional Arts

Fiscal Year:
2019

Staff Member:

Chair:
Hope McMath

Location:
Brokaw-McDougall House

Access:
Comments Closed

County: Orange

Bio

Senior Manager, Grants and Special Projects, Orange County Public Schools
Previously Grants Manager, Dr. Phillips Center for the Preforming Arts, Orlando: Director of Grants Management, Lawrence Hall Youth Services, Chicago, Illinois; Grants Officer, America’s Families United, Washington, D.C.; Researcher, Nuestra Musica: Latino Chicago, Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Founder, Puerto Rican Organization for the Performing Arts
B.A., Theater and BA, Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago; M.S., Community Psychology, Springfield College; 18 Ph.D. courses, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

Bio

Former Director of Folklife & Traditional Arts, South Carolina Arts Commission
Previously Marketing & Development Manager; The Alamo Historic Site; Development Director, Institute of Texan Cultures, University of Texas San Antonio
Previously worked with: Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Arts Administration Fellow at National Endowment for the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Council, Wisconsin Arts Board, Prints & Photographs Division of Library of Congress
Grant Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, Georgia Council for the Arts
B.A., History/Folklore, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Graduate work towards M.A., American Studies, Folklore, George Washington University

Bio

Folklife Specialist, Kentucky Folklife Program, Western Kentucky University
Experience in museum, archive, and preservation non-profit settings.
AmeriCorps alumnus, having served for two years in a program dedicated to low-income housing repair
Board member, City of Bowling Green’s Historic Preservation Board; and a member of Rotary International
BFA, Historic Preservation with a minor in Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design; MA, Folk Studies, Western Kentucky University

County: Polk

Bio

Consultant / Folklorist, Plant City, Florida
Formerly Curator of Education and Programs, Polk County History Center
Formerly the Folklorist and Director of Programs at Tuckerton Seaport
Worked with the Maryland Traditions team as the Folklorist for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and as a member of the Breene M. Kerr Center for Chesapeake Studies
Served on the Board of Directors for the ‘Stories of the Bay’ Heritage Area and is currently working to revitalize Plant City Main Street
M.A., Folk Studies and Historic Preservation, Western Kentucky University; B.G.S., focus on Historical Archaeology, Virginia Commonwealth University

County: MiamiDade

Bio

Museum specialist and folklorist and Coordinator/Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at Florida International University, retired
Previous experience includes work in museums in Ohio, Oklahoma and Florida; and consultations for museums within the US and oversaw and conducted extensive field research in ethnic communities across the United States and in Greece
Author of “We Are Few, Folklore and Ethnic Identity of the Jewish Community of Ioannina, Greece, Published by Lexington Books, 2008. Annette has published articles on immigrant-ethnic groups in America, Jews in Greece, Greek folklore, Native Americans in museums, multicultural museums, and folk art
Past-President of the International Committee of Museums of Ethnography (ICME) and Member of the Florida Folklife Council
Ph.D. in Folklore with minors in Art History and Anthropology, Indiana University; and B.A., African Studies and Textiles, Kent State University

County: Pinellas

Bio

Director, Florida Cultural Resources, Inc.
Former Curator of Arts & Historical Resources, The City of Tarpon Springs
Previously served as State Folklorist and Director of the Florida Folklife Program/Bureau of Historic Preservation, Department of State
Founder, Folklife Program at HistoryMiami (formerly Historical Museum of Southern Florida)
Author, Co-Author, or Editor of five books, including Greek Music in America (2019), Greeks in Tarpon Springs (2016), The Florida Folklife Reader (2011), Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Arts (2004), and South Florida Folklife (1994)
M.A., Folklore & Mythology, University of California, Los Angeles.; Ph.D., Folklore, Indiana University