Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Gathering, 2004
SubjectPortrait of
Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez
(Puerto Rican)
MakerMade by
Marek Czarnecki
(Polish-American)
SubjectPortrait of
Lynne Williamson
SubjectPortrait of
Rosaire LeHoux
(Canadian, 1920 - 2013)
SubjectPortrait of
Eldrid Arntzen
SubjectPortrait of
William Cumpiano
(Puerto Rican)
SubjectPortrait of
Sarkis Shahrigian
(1928 - 2012)
SubjectPortrait of
Valentine D. Galasyn
(American, 1928 - 2022)
SubjectPortrait of
John Monteiro
(Cape Verdean)
SubjectPortrait of
Eurico Semedo
(Cape Verdean)
SubjectPortrait of
Somaly Hay
(Cambodian, 1959 - 2016)
Date2004 February 21
Mediumprint photography
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections
CopyrightIn Copyright
Object number2015.196.545.1-.22
DescriptionPhotographs of participants from the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program at the artists' gathering at the Institute For Community Research on February 21, 2004.
(.1) Puerto Rican artist Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez and Polish iconographer Marek Czarnecki.
(.2) The artists' gathering in the ICR Gallery. Then CCHAP Director Lynne Williamson is talking to French Canadian fiddler Rosaire Lehoux.
(.3-.4) Polish iconographer Marek Czarnecki.
(.5) Pictured artists: Norwegian rosemaler Eldrid Arntzen; Puerto Rican artist Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez; Puerto Rican luthier William Cumpiano; and Armenian kamancha student Jimmy Shahrigian.
(.6) Pictured artists: square dance caller Bob Livingston; Norwegian rosemaler Eldrid Arntzen; Puerto Rican artist Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez; and Puerto Rican luthier William Cumpiano.
(.7) Blacksmith Walt Scadden with other apprenticeship artists.
(.8) Then CCHAP Director Lynne Williamson with apprenticeship artists: French Canadian fiddler Rosaire Lehoux; African American quilter Laura Hudson; African American gospel group The Second Baptist Male Chorus; and Finnish community weaver Val Galasyn.
(.9) Pictured artists: Puerto Rican artist Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez and Puerto Rican luthier William Cumpiano.
(.10-.12) Peruvian dance group Danzas Peruanas is performing.
(.13) Armenian kamancha student Jimmy Shahrigian.
(.14) The Cape Verdean dance group Warm Heart is performing.
(.15) Cape Verdean musicians Joao Cerilo and Eurico Semedo are playing for the Warm Heart dancers.
(.16-.17) The Cape Verdean dance group Warm Heart is performing.
(.18-.19) Cambodian dancer Somaly Hay.
(.20) The Institute for Community Research reception area.
(.21) Cape Verdean musicians Joao Cerilo and Eurico Semedo are playing for the Warm Heart dancers.
(.22) The Cape Verdean dance group Warm Heart is performing.
NotesSubject Note: As part of its NEA-funded Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program produced an informal gathering of artists who had participated in the program since its inception in 1997. The event took place in the Institute for Community Research Gallery on February 21, 2004. The artists demonstrated their art work or performed their music and dance, sharing their stories and techniques across art forms and cultures. Artists who displayed examples of their art included: blacksmiths, rosemalers (Norwegian painting on wood), Puerto Rican cuatro makers, a Polish iconographer, and Finnish weavers. Performers included Cape Verdean musicians and dancers, a square dance caller, two Peruvian dance groups, an Armenian kamancha student, an Irish flute player, a gospel quartet, Franco-American fiddlers, and Cambodian singers and dancers. Participants sampled food from a variety of local ethnic restaurants and a cake made by traditional Puerto Rican baker/decorator Ana Lozada from Hartford. The gathering provided feedback from the artists about their experiences with the Program, helping to improve it and plan for future directions. The success of this event led CCHAP and project partners to plan a public festival and exhibit of all apprenticeships which was held in June 2005.(.1) Puerto Rican artist Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez and Polish iconographer Marek Czarnecki.
(.2) The artists' gathering in the ICR Gallery. Then CCHAP Director Lynne Williamson is talking to French Canadian fiddler Rosaire Lehoux.
(.3-.4) Polish iconographer Marek Czarnecki.
(.5) Pictured artists: Norwegian rosemaler Eldrid Arntzen; Puerto Rican artist Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez; Puerto Rican luthier William Cumpiano; and Armenian kamancha student Jimmy Shahrigian.
(.6) Pictured artists: square dance caller Bob Livingston; Norwegian rosemaler Eldrid Arntzen; Puerto Rican artist Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez; and Puerto Rican luthier William Cumpiano.
(.7) Blacksmith Walt Scadden with other apprenticeship artists.
(.8) Then CCHAP Director Lynne Williamson with apprenticeship artists: French Canadian fiddler Rosaire Lehoux; African American quilter Laura Hudson; African American gospel group The Second Baptist Male Chorus; and Finnish community weaver Val Galasyn.
(.9) Pictured artists: Puerto Rican artist Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez and Puerto Rican luthier William Cumpiano.
(.10-.12) Peruvian dance group Danzas Peruanas is performing.
(.13) Armenian kamancha student Jimmy Shahrigian.
(.14) The Cape Verdean dance group Warm Heart is performing.
(.15) Cape Verdean musicians Joao Cerilo and Eurico Semedo are playing for the Warm Heart dancers.
(.16-.17) The Cape Verdean dance group Warm Heart is performing.
(.18-.19) Cambodian dancer Somaly Hay.
(.20) The Institute for Community Research reception area.
(.21) Cape Verdean musicians Joao Cerilo and Eurico Semedo are playing for the Warm Heart dancers.
(.22) The Cape Verdean dance group Warm Heart is performing.
Subject Note: The Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program is a CCHAP initiative since 1997 that fosters the sharing of community-based traditional (folk) artistic skills through the apprenticeship learning model of regular, intensive, one-on-one teaching by a skilled mentor artist to a student/apprentice. The program pairs master artists from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or Connecticut with apprentices from one of the other states, as a way to knit together members of the same community or group across state lines. Teaching and learning traditional arts help to sustain cultural expressions that are central to a community, while also strengthening festivals, arts activities and events when master/apprentice artists perform or demonstrate results of their cooperative learning to public audiences. The Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program at the Connecticut Historical Society manages the program in collaboration with the Folk Arts Program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council and independent folklorist Winifred Lambrecht who has a deep knowledge of the folk arts landscape of Rhode Island. Primary funding for the program comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, with support also from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Institute for Community Research, and the Connecticut Historical Society.
Additional materials exist in the CCHAP archive for this event and all the artists.
Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.
Status
Not on view
Raquel Figueiredo
2005 June 19
John Monteiro
2005 June 19
