Traditional skill/art/craft: Guinean drumming and dancing
2016-2017 Apprentice: Mamadouba “Papa” Yansane
Filmed by: Emily West Hartlerode
Edited by: Erin Wai
Watch Alseny’s previous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd2jv…
Learn more about Alseny and the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program at Oregon Folklife Network https://mnch.uoregon.edu/taap-awardee…
Category Archives: Media Features
Artist Spotlight: Francisco Bautista
Francisco Bautista, a Zapotec fabric artist, is a 2021 TAAP award recipient.
Listen to a short excerpt from Bautista’s TAAP interview with OFN Interim Director Emily Hartlerode and graduate employee Jenna Ehlinger. Bautista worked with his son David for the TAAP program.
Bautista was born in the town of Teotitlán de Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico. He grew up learning to weave from his father and grandfather, both of whom made a living weaving. In 2003, he and his wife moved to Sandy, Oregon, where they began weaving and taking their rugs to Saturday Market in Portland and other shows in Oregon. As a member of the Portland Handweavers Guild, he has demonstrated Zapotec weaving at several fairs and shows, including Art in the Pearl.
Bautista has taught workshops about the Zapotec method of natural dyeing in Sandy and Bend, Oregon. In 2017, he shared his Zapotec weaving tradition with non-Zapotec immigrants from Mexico through a program sponsored by the Sandy Public Library at Sandy Vista Apartments. Additionally, he volunteers in many demonstrations and teaching programs throughout the community.
This excerpt was edited and produced by OFN graduate employee Lillian DeVane
Media Corner – Jayanthi Raman
Watch TAAP Master Artist Jayanthi Raman (2015) and her apprentice Bakul Godbole demonstrate Bharatha Natyam Indian Dance.
Media Corner: Mic Crenshaw
Bruno Seraphin
Portland-based Hip-Hop artist Mic Crenshaw and his apprentice Baqi Coles, recipients of a 2015-2016 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program award.
The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians
In partnership with Oregon’s nine federally recognized Tribes and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, OFN is producing a series of documentary shorts. We’re pleased to feature one of those videos, which provides a Native perspective on Oregon’s history and shows the ongoing work of cultural conservation and preservation.
#Summerlore
This summer, the OFN invites you to join us for a social media folk festival! We all have summer traditions that we repeat every year to make the season great – favorite camping spots, July 4th celebrations, special family outings, or tried and true ways to keep cool. As you enjoy these activities all summer long, tell us about them using the hashtag #summerlore. For each post you tag on Twitter or Instagram, you’ll be entered into a raffle for an awesome swag bag!
Here’s some ideas to get you started!
- Music festival fan? Tell us what you do to get ready for the festival!
- Have a favorite summer recipe you make every year? Let us know how to make it!
- Have a great way to entertain the kids at home from school? Share it with us!
Media Corner: Hoplore
Video and Exhibit by Makaela Kroin
Hoplore: Hop Culture in Oregon, OFN’s newest exhibit, traces over 150 years of hops cultivation in Oregon through worker profiles, farm tools, historical photographs, and a short documentary. While Oregon’s heritage hop yards are 3rd and 4th-generation family businesses, small hop farms are enjoying a renaissance throughout the Willamette Valley, revitalizing and re-envisioning hop cultivation and its traditional practices.
New Video Premiere: TAAP Awardees Nisha and Shivani Joshi
Nisha Joshi (Portland) is an internationally celebrated performer of classical Rajasthani Indian music, and one of OFN’S 2012 TAAP awardees. The Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program provided the necessary funding for Joshi to pass along the lesser known Rajasthani Folk Music to her apprentice, Shivani Joshi.
Check out Nisha and Shivani’s new video at the Oregon Folklife Network website.