Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Festival, 2005
SubjectPortrait of
Raquel Figueiredo
Cape Verdean
SubjectPortrait of
John Monteiro
Cape Verdean
SubjectPortrait of
Eurico Semedo
Cape Verdean
SubjectPortrait of
Rosaire Lehoux
Canadian, 1920 - 2013
SubjectPortrait of
Lydia Pérez
Puerto Rican
SubjectPortrait of
David Ayriyan
Armenian, 1933 - 2019
SubjectPortrait of
William Hare
SubjectPortrait of
Eldrid Arntzen
American, 1935 - 2023
SubjectPortrait of
Daniel Boucher
American, born 1980
SubjectPortrait of
Nancy Lemme
SubjectPortrait of
Blia Vang
Hmong
SubjectPortrait of
Pa Koua Vang
Hmong
SubjectPortrait of
Hartford Steel Symphony
established 1989
Date2005 June 19
Mediumborn digital photography
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections
DescriptionPhotographs from the 2005 Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Festival held at the Portuguese Club in Newington on June 19, 2005.
(1): Dancers from the Cape Verdean dance group Warm Heart are performing.
(.2) Joao Cerilo and Eurico Semedo are playing Cape Verdean music on stage for the Warm Heart dancers.
(.3-.10): Cape Verdean dance group Warm Heart is performing.
(.11) French Canadian fiddler Rosaire Lehoux is performing a step dance on stage.
(.12-.13): Lydia Perez and her group Yoruba II are drumming on stage.
(.14-.20): Lydia Perez and her group Yoruba II are performing Puerto Rican bomba dance.
(.21-.24): The Second Baptist Male Chorus is performing on stage.
(.25): Armenian kamancha player David Ayriyan is performing on stage.
(.26): Irish fife player Will Hare is performing on stage.
(.27-.29): Steel drum performance by Hartford Steel Symphony.
(.30-.31): French Canadian fiddler Rosaire Lehoux is performing a step dance on stage.
(.32-.33): Norwegian rosemaler Eldrid Arntzen and her artwork.
(.34): Cape Verdean audience members.
(.35-.36): French Canadian fiddle players Daniel Boucher, Rosaire Lehoux, and Nancy Lemme are performing on stage.
(.37): Hmong embroiderer Blia Vang with her work, her granddaughter, and her husband, Hmong cultural leader Pa Koua Vang.
(1): Dancers from the Cape Verdean dance group Warm Heart are performing.
(.2) Joao Cerilo and Eurico Semedo are playing Cape Verdean music on stage for the Warm Heart dancers.
(.3-.10): Cape Verdean dance group Warm Heart is performing.
(.11) French Canadian fiddler Rosaire Lehoux is performing a step dance on stage.
(.12-.13): Lydia Perez and her group Yoruba II are drumming on stage.
(.14-.20): Lydia Perez and her group Yoruba II are performing Puerto Rican bomba dance.
(.21-.24): The Second Baptist Male Chorus is performing on stage.
(.25): Armenian kamancha player David Ayriyan is performing on stage.
(.26): Irish fife player Will Hare is performing on stage.
(.27-.29): Steel drum performance by Hartford Steel Symphony.
(.30-.31): French Canadian fiddler Rosaire Lehoux is performing a step dance on stage.
(.32-.33): Norwegian rosemaler Eldrid Arntzen and her artwork.
(.34): Cape Verdean audience members.
(.35-.36): French Canadian fiddle players Daniel Boucher, Rosaire Lehoux, and Nancy Lemme are performing on stage.
(.37): Hmong embroiderer Blia Vang with her work, her granddaughter, and her husband, Hmong cultural leader Pa Koua Vang.
Object number2015.196.547.1-.37
CopyrightIn Copyright
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.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.
Subject Terms
- Cape Verdean Americans
- Dance
- Dancers
- Dance (Puerto Rico)
- Steel drum (Musical instrument)
- Norwegian painting
- Bomba (Dance)
- Dance groups
- Franco-Americans
- Fiddle playing
- French Canadian Americans
- French Canadian music
- French-Canadians
- Puerto Ricans
- Armenians
- Armenian Americans
- Armenian music
- Kamānche (Musical instrument)
- Irish
- Flute music
- Irish Americans
- Norwegian-Americans
- Hmong
- Gospel choirs
- African Americans
- Caribbean
- Rosemaling
- Folklife education
- Southern New England Apprenticeship Program (SNEAP)
- Photographs
- Newington
- CCHAP Archive IMLS Museums for America Grant
- Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CCHAP)
On View
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John Monteiro
2005 June 19
Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez
2004 February 21
