Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Festival, 2005
SubjectPortrait of
David Ayriyan
(Armenian, 1933 - 2019)
SubjectPortrait of
William Cumpiano
(Puerto Rican)
SubjectPortrait of
Eldrid Arntzen
SubjectPortrait of
Blia Vang
(Hmong)
SubjectPortrait of
Maria Berros
(Bolivian)
SubjectPortrait of
Khandarith Hay
(Cambodian)
SubjectPortrait of
Somaly Hay
(Cambodian, 1959 - 2016)
Date2005 June 19
Mediumborn digital photography
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections
CopyrightIn Copyright
Object number2015.196.546.97-.108
DescriptionPhotographs from the 2005 Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Festival held at the Portuguese Club in Newington, Connecticut on June 19, 2005.
(.97-.103): Armenian kamancha player David Ayriyan performs on stage.
(.104): Puerto Rican luthier William Cumpiano discusses his instruments with a visitor.
(.105): Norwegian artist Eldrid Arntzen demonstrates rosemaling.
(.106): Hmong artist Blia Vang demonstrates her embroidery.
(.107): Bolivian artist Maria Berros demonstrates her needlework. Blia Vang and Eldrid Arntzen are in the background.
(.108) Cambodian singer Khandarith Hay and Cambodian dancer Somaly Hay are on stage singing.
NotesSubject Note: As part of its NEA-funded Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program produced a one-day festival to showcase the work of traditional artists participating in apprenticeships since 1997. The event was held on June 19, 2005, at the Portuguese Club in Newington. Twenty-six artist/groups participated, seven visual artists set up demonstration tables, and nineteen performing groups presented on stage (not all are shown in the images). They traveled from throughout Connecticut as well as from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The range of ethnicities and art forms was wide.(.97-.103): Armenian kamancha player David Ayriyan performs on stage.
(.104): Puerto Rican luthier William Cumpiano discusses his instruments with a visitor.
(.105): Norwegian artist Eldrid Arntzen demonstrates rosemaling.
(.106): Hmong artist Blia Vang demonstrates her embroidery.
(.107): Bolivian artist Maria Berros demonstrates her needlework. Blia Vang and Eldrid Arntzen are in the background.
(.108) Cambodian singer Khandarith Hay and Cambodian dancer Somaly Hay are on stage singing.
Visual Artists included: Marek Czarnecki Polish iconographer (Meriden, CT); Eldrid Arntzen, Norwegian rosemaler (Watertown, CT); William Cumpiano, Puerto Rican luthier, (Easthampton, MA); Graciela Quiñones Rodríguez, Puerto Rican cuatro maker (East Hartford, CT); Blia and Pa Koua Vang, Hmong needlework and musical instruments (Providence, RI); Maria Barrios, Bolivian needlework (Providence, RI); and Father Paul Luniw, Ukrainian pysanky (Terryville, CT).
Performing Artists included: Jason Roseman, Trinidad steel pan maker and player (Pawtucket, RI) and Kelvin Griffith, Trinidad steel pan maker and player (East Hartford, CT); Will Hare, Irish flute player (Storrs, CT); Danzas Peruanas, Peruvian dance group (Hartford); Rosaire LeHoux, Quebecois fiddler (Willimantic, CT) – with Daniel Boucher, Franco-American fiddler (Bristol, CT) and Nancy Lemme, Franco-American fiddler (West Warwick, RI); Bob Livingston, Square Dance and Quadrille caller (Middletown, CT); David Ayriyan, Armenian kamanche player (Johnston, RI); Joao dos Santos, Portuguese fandango dancer (Newington, CT); Somaly Hay, Cambodian dancer (Waterford, CT); Khandarith Hay, Cambodian singer (Waterford, CT); Second Baptist Male Chorus, African-American Gospel Quartet (New Britain, CT); Lydia Perez, Puerto Rican bomba dancer (Providence, RI); Raouf Mama, African storyteller (Willimantic, CT); Lao Narthasin, Lao dance group (Hartford/New Britain, CT); Raquel Figueiredo and Warm Heart, Cape Verdean dancers (Waterbury, CT); and Joao Monteiro, Cape Verdean accordion player and singer (Pawtucket, RI).
The event had ethnic food for sale, reflecting the cultures of some of the artists: Laotian, Polish, Peruvian, and Norwegian. The festival was supported by United Arts 2005 through the Greater Hartford Arts Council, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and The Institute for Community Research. The Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the Institute for Community Research, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.
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 these artists and events.
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
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