Category: TAAP

2025 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Recipients Announced

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  EUGENE, Ore. – (February 18, 2025) – Four traditional artists in Oregon will receive a $3,500 stipend to teach traditional art forms to apprentices from the same cultural communities, Tribes, sacred, or occupational groups. The Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) is one way the Oregon Folklife Network supports traditional artists, or Culture Keepers, in… Continue reading 2025 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Recipients Announced →

Apply by Oct 2, 2023 for Funds to Teach/Learn Traditional Arts

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by Emily Hartlerode The University of Oregon’s Oregon Folklife Network is accepting applications until Monday, October 2, 2023 for the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) for projects in 2024. The program offers traditional artists and culture keepers a $3,500 stipend to teach their cultural practices to apprentices from their same communities, Tribes, sacred or occupational groups. The stipend supports master artists… Continue reading Apply by Oct 2, 2023 for Funds to Teach/Learn Traditional Arts →

Announcing the 2023 TAAP Award Recipients

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We are excited to introduce the 2023 TAAP awardee cohort! The TAAP program offers folk and traditional master artists and culture keepers a $3,500 stipend to teach their art form to apprentices from their same communities, Tribes, sacred or occupational groups. The stipend supports master artists in sharing their knowledge, skills and expertise with apprentices… Continue reading Announcing the 2023 TAAP Award Recipients →

Gratitude To TAAP 2022-2023 Applicants

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The call for applications for this year’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program has closed on October 31st and we are happy to announce that we have received nine applications. We are very delighted to have a geographically and culturally rich cohort of candidates this year. It is always a delight to be able to assist Oregon… Continue reading Gratitude To TAAP 2022-2023 Applicants →

Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Application Deadline Extended: October 31, 2022

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Oregon Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Announces New Application Deadline Extended to October 31, 2022 EUGENE, Ore. – (Sept 28, 2022) – The University of Oregon’s Oregon Folklife Network has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts plus $40,000 from Oregon Arts Commission to support Oregon’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. Oregon Folklife Network… Continue reading Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Application Deadline Extended: October 31, 2022 →

Artist Spotlight: Francisco Bautista

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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.… Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Francisco Bautista →

Announcing the 2022 TAAP Award Recipients

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We are excited to introduce the 2022 TAAP awardee cohort! The TAAP program offers folk and traditional master artists and culture keepers a $3,500 stipend to teach their art form to apprentices from their same communities, Tribes, sacred or occupational groups. The stipend supports master artists in sharing their knowledge, skills and expertise with apprentices… Continue reading Announcing the 2022 TAAP Award Recipients →

2021 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Awards

Each year, Oregon Folklife Network’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) assists accomplished mentors in passing on their living traditions to promising apprentices of the same cultural community. A prestigious statewide honor, TAAP awards are often a precursor for traditional artists to be nominated for National Heritage Fellowship awards through the National Endowment for the Arts.… Continue reading 2021 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Awards →

UPDATE: Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Applications extended: DUE OCTOBER 16, 2020

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                                                             Oregon Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program receives NEA funds, and New Applications Accepted through Oct 16, 2020 Oregon Folklife Network is now accepting applications for the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) for 2021. The program offers folk and traditional master artists and culture keepers a $3,500 stipend to teach their art form to apprentices from… Continue reading UPDATE: Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Applications extended: DUE OCTOBER 16, 2020 →

OREGON TRADITIONAL ARTS APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM (TAAP) – APPLICATIONS DUE APRIL 1st, 2019

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The Oregon Folklife Network (OFN) is now accepting applications for the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) for 2019-20. This cornerstone program offers traditional/folk master artists and culture keepers a $4,000 stipend to teach their art form to apprentices from their own communities—cultural, religious, or occupational groups, or tribes. The stipend supports master artists to pass… Continue reading OREGON TRADITIONAL ARTS APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM (TAAP) – APPLICATIONS DUE APRIL 1st, 2019 →