JON KAY Indiana University 416 N. Indiana Avenue Bloomington, IN 47408 812-855-0418 jkay@indiana.edu EDUCATION Indiana University, Bloomington (2008-2014) 2014 Ph.D. (folklore with American studies minor) Dissertation: Material Life Review: Folk Art and Aging in Indiana Western Kentucky University (1995-1997) 1997 M.A. (folk studies) Public Practice Track Indiana University, Bloomington (1990-1995) 1995 B.G.S. (general studies) PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT (Current Appointments) Director (2004-present): Traditional Arts Indiana, Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Professor of Practice (2015-present): Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. [previously, Assistant Research Scholar of Folklore (2004-2014)] Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage (2015-present): Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. [previously, Consulting Curator (2013-2014)] PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT (Previous Appointments) Festival Director, Park Services Specialist (2002-2004): Florida Folk Festival, Florida Park Service, White Springs, Florida. Folklorist, Park Services Specialist (1998-2002): Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center, Florida Park Service, White Springs, Florida.

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Folklife Education Coordinator (1997-1998): Florida Department of State (contract), White Springs, Florida. Folklore Fieldworker (1998): Historical Museum of South Florida (contract), Miami, Florida. Folklorist-in-Residence (1997): Kentucky Arts Council (Arts in Education Program), Cloverport Independent School System, Cloverport, Kentucky. Research Assistant (1996-1997): Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Fieldworker and Festival Presenter (1996): Kentucky Folklife Program (contract), Frankfort, Kentucky. Folklore Fieldworker (1997): Vanceburg Bicentennial Celebration (contract), Vanceburg, Kentucky. Folklorist-in-Parks (1996): Pine Mountain State Resort Park and Kentucky Arts Council (contract), Pine Mountain, Kentucky. PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS AND CATALOGUES) in press Folklore and the Expressive Lives of Elders. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2016 Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers. Bloomington: Indiana University

Press. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/20906 2016 Indiana Folk Arts: 200 Years of Tradition and Innovation (exhibition catalogue). Jon Kay, ed.

Bloomington: Mathers Museum of World Cultures. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/20893

PUBLICATIONS (BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES) in press “Art Making and Place Making Strategies of Elders” In Sundogs and Sunflowers: Art for Life

Plans for Elders. Troyd Geist, ed. Bismarck: North Dakota Arts Council. 2017 “Stone Head: The Making and Unmaking of a Local Landmark” In 2017 Collector’s Showcase

Exhibition Catalogue. Lyn Letsinger-Millered. Nashville, Indiana: Brown County Art Gallery. 2017 “Indiana State Fair Master: Bill Bailey, Washboard and Spoons Player.” Indiana State Fair and

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2017 “The Oak-Rod Basketmakers of Brown County, Indiana” In Rooted, Revised, Revisited:

Basketry in America. Kristin A. Schwain and Josephine Stealey, eds. Atglen, Pennsylvania:

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Schiffer Publishing. http://www.schifferbooks.com/rooted-revived-reinvented-basketry-in-america-6276.html

2016 “Life-Story Objects in Indiana” In Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and their Social

Worlds. Jason Baird Jackson, ed. Pp. 143-159. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/20925

2016 “Traditional Arts Indiana at Indiana University’s Mathers Museum.” Journal of Folklore

Education (3) (Special Section Public Folklore Programs and University Museums: Partnerships in Education). Lisa L. Higgins, ed. 108-112. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/20993 http://locallearningnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/JFEv3.pdf

2016 “The Last Basketmaker: Indiana’s Forgotten History of Oak-Rod Baskets.” International Oaks 27(1): Pp. 233-243.

2015 “Frank M. Hohenberger” In Indiana's 200: The People Who Shaped the Character of the Hoosier State. Linda Gugin and Jim St. Clair, eds. Pp. 173-174. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press.

2015 “Afterward” In Parke County: Indiana's Covered Bridge Capital. Bloomington: Quarry Books/Indiana University Press. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807488

2015 “Foxfire” In Encyclopedia of American Studies. Simon J. Bronner ed. Baltimore, Maryland:

Johns Hopkins University Press. http://eas-ref.press.jhu.edu/view?aid=861. (accessed October 7, 2015)

2014 “Oak-Rod Baskets in Brown County: Historic Photographs of a Craft Tradition” International

Oaks. 25(1): Pp. 85-92.

2012 “Traditional Arts Indiana: A University Based Public Folklore Program” Anthropology News 53(1): Pp. 33-34.

2012 “Introduction” In A Boy Named Zelton, Phyllis Free, ed. Pp. ii-xi. Athens, Georgia: Deeds Publishing. https://www.deedspublishing.com/store/a-boy-named-zelton

2010 “A Picture of an Old Country Store: The Construction of Folklore in Everyday Life.” Museum

Anthropology Review. 4(2): Pp. 144-155. http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/mar/article/view/914/1032

2010 “Musical Mildred Jones.” Our Brown County. March-April: Pp. 32, 52. 2010 “Bruce Taggart: Brown County Fiddle Maker.” Our Brown County. May-June: Pp. 12-25.

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2009 “A Turtleback Prima: Narratives and Narrated Objects.” Midwestern Folklore. 35(1): Pp. 21-43.

2003 Rural Folklife Days: Teachers Guide. Tallahassee: Florida Heritage Education Program.

2001 A Survey and Analysis of Regional Traditional Arts Programs and Services. Atlanta, Georgia:

Southern Arts Federation (now SouthArts). http://www.southarts.org/download/TAProgramReport.pdf

2000 “Nancy Morgan: Faces of Faith” Florida Humanities Council Forum Magazine 23(2): Pp. 14-22.

1998 “Charles Pennycuff: Oyster Skiffs” In Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary

Communities. Stephen Stuempfle, ed. P. 15. Miami: Historical Museum of South Florida.

1998 “Charles Golden: Oyster Tongs” In Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities. Stephen Stuempfle, ed. P. 16. Miami: Historical Museum of South Florida.

1998 “John Golden: Shrimp Nets” In Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities. Stephen Stuempfle, ed. P. 17. Miami: Historical Museum of South Florida.

1998 “Wayne Sherrod: Crab Traps” In Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities. Stephen Stuempfle, ed. P. 20. Miami: Historical Museum of South Florida.

1998 “Billy David: Spurs” In Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities. Stephen Stuempfle, ed. P. 34. Miami: Historical Museum of South Florida.

1998 “Elizabeth Knight, Nancy Morgan and Betty Schneider: Quilts” In Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities. Stephen Stuempfle, ed. P. 44. Miami: Historical Museum of South Florida.

1998 “Ginger LaVoie: Quilts” In Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities. Stephen Stuempfle, ed. P. 46. Miami: Historical Museum of South Florida.

1998 “Henry Ohumukini: Hula Drums” In Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities. Stephen Stuempfle, ed. P. 93 Miami: Historical Museum of South Florida.

1998 “Folklife in the Classroom” In Folkwinds: A Publication of the Florida Folklore Society. P. 6.

Tampa: Florida Folklore Society.

1998 “Multicultural Education: Experience Centered Learning” In Folkwinds: A Publication of the Florida Folklore Society. Pp. 4-5. Tampa: Florida Folklore Society.

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PUBLICATIONS (BOOK REVIEWS) 2010 Review of Clay Times Three: The Tale of Three Potteries, Nashville, Indiana by Kathy M.

McKimmie. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/jfrr/article/view/2839/2715

2008 Review of Everyday Aesthetics by Yuriko Saito. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews.

http://www.indiana.edu/~jfr/review.php?id=674 2008 Review of Hungarian Folk Instruments by Robert Mandel. Journal of Folklore Research

Reviews. http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=1049 2007 Review of In Good Keeping: Virginia Folklife Apprenticeships by Jon Lohman. Journal of

Folklore Research Reviews. http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=651 2006 Review of Just Above Water: Florida Folk Art by Kristin G. Congdon and Tina Bucuvalas.

Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/jfrr/article/view/2466/2342

2006 Review of The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Folk Pottery by Mark Hewitt

and Nancy Sweezy. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/jfrr/article/view/2516/2392

EXHIBITIONS 2017 (curator) “Creative Aging in America.” Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. (November 2017) 2017 (curator) “Gustav Potthoff: Art and Healing, War and Remembrance,” Scholars’ Commons,

Herman B. Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 2017 (curator) “Art with a Purpose: Brown County Baskets.”Brown County Art Gallery, Nashville,

Indiana. https://jasonbairdjackson.com/2017/08/05/a-southwest-central-indiana-collaboration-the-art-with-a-purpose-exhibition-at-the-brown-county-art-gallery/

2016 (curator) “Indiana Folk Arts: 200 Years of Tradition and Innovation.” Traditional Arts Indiana

and Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2015 (curator) “Willow Work: Viki Graber Basketmaker.” Mathers Museum of World Cultures,

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. http://www.mathers.indiana.edu/willow.html 2015 (executive curator) “Working Wood: Oak-Rod Baskets in Indiana.” Mathers Museum of World

Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. http://www.mathers.indiana.edu/workingwood.html

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2014 (executive curator) “Hoosier Handmade: Indiana Traditional Arts Today.” Scholars’ Commons, Herman B. Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

2013 (co-curator) “Limestone Traditions: Stoneworking in South-Central Indiana.” Mathers

Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2012 (curator) “Tell People the Story: The Art of Gustav Potthoff.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana, Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum, Columbus, Indiana and Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville Indiana.

2010 (executive curator) “Neighbors from Burma.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana and Southport Public Library, Southport, Indiana. 2010 (executive curator) “Four Miami Women.” Traditional Arts Indiana and IU Arts Week, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana and Project School, Bloomington, Indiana. 2009 (co-curator) “Politics, Patriotism, and Paint: The Colorful Canes of John Schoolman.”

Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2009 (co-curator) “Indiana’s Traditional Arts.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana and Indiana State Fair, Nashville, Indiana. 2009 (co-curator) “Creativity, Community, and Continuity: Indiana’s Traditional Arts.” Traditional

Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana and Center for Folk Traditions, Nashville, Indiana.

2008 (curator) “John Schoolman’s Christmas Canes.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana and Allen County/Fort Wayne Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 2006 (co-curator) “Crafting Sound: Indiana Instrument Makers.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana and John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, Indiana. 2006 (co-curator) “Ron Volbrecht: Master Guitar Builder.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana and John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, Indiana. 2001 (curator) “Folklife of the Upper Suwannee.” Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center, White

Springs, Florida and Florida Humanities Council, St. Petersburg, Florida. 1998 (fieldworker) “Florida Folklife: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Communities.” Historical

Museum of South Florida, Miami, Florida. 1997 (curator) “Life on the Kentucky Frontier: Interactive Exhibition.” Kentucky Museum, Western

Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky. 1997 (curator) “Make a Joyful Noise: Shape-note Singing and Singing Schools.” Kentucky

Museum, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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1997 (curator) “Roads, Rails, and Rivers: Interactive Exhibition.” Kentucky Museum, Western

Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky. TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS 2017 (curator) “Folk Art and Aging: Book Exhibition.” Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville,

Virginia; C.C. Young Senior Living, Dallas, Texas; Herman B. Wells Library Lobby Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

2017 (curator) “Weberding’s Carving Shop: A Family Tradition in Wood.” Traditional Arts Indiana,

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2017 (curator) “Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and their Makers.” Virginia Festival of the

Book, Charlottesville, Virginia. https://archive.org/details/Folkartandagingbookexhibit 2016 (curator) “Tom Wintczak: Redware Potter.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 (curator) “Portia Sperry: Abigail Doll Inventor.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 (curator) “Marie Webster: Quilter and Pattern Maker.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 (curator) “Katrina Mitten: Miami Bead Artist.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 (curator) “The Doll Making of Cathy Nagy Mowry and Kathryn Lengacher.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 (curator) “Bob Taylor: Woodcarver of Memories.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 (curator) “Greg Adams: Willow Furniture Maker.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 (curator) “John Bundy: Duck Decoy Carver.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 (curator) “Bruce Hovis: Oak-Rod Basketmaker.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2015 (executive curator) “Mastering Technique: Chinami Ricketts Cotton Cloth for Kimonos.”

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

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2014 (executive curator) “Larry Haycraft’s Net Making.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2014 (executive curator) “Jim Smoak: Picking Banjo from ‘Hillbilly’ to Bluegrass.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2014 (executive curator) “Two Turkey Call Makers: Bill Barker and Tim Oldham, Jr.” Traditional

Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2014 (executive curator) “The Geode Grotto: An International Tradition with a Southern Indiana

Aesthetic.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

2014 (executive curator) “Growing Blue: Rowland Rickets, Indigo and Art in Process.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

2013 (executive curator) “Marvin Kemper: Crafting Rifles in a Family Tradition.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2013 (executive curator) “Blacksmithing Traditions in the Indiana Stone Belt.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2013 (executive curator) “Naptown Knitters.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2013 (executive curator) “Amish Quilt Auction.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2013 (executive curator) “Sacred Chant at Saint Meinrad Archabbey: A Tradition of Sung Prayer in

Dubois County.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2012 (executive curator) “Sacred Steel: Reverend Clary Butler and the House of God Church.”

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2012 (executive curator) “Grease Gravy of Orange County.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2012 (executive curator) “The Pekin Fourth of July Celebration.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2012 (executive curator) “Mariachi Zelaya.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2012 (executive curator) “Manjeet Singh: Harmonium and Tabla Player.” Traditional Arts Indiana,

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

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2011 (executive curator) “Not Too Bad Bluegrass Band.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

2011 (executive curator) “Mineko Grunow: Okinawan Dance.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2011 (executive curator) “Sung Men, Chin Weaving.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2011 (executive curator) “Dr. Djo bi Simon Irie: Ivorian Drummer.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2010 (executive curator) “Milan Opacich: Tamburitza Maker and National Heritage Fellow.”

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2010 (executive curator) “Sisters of the Cloth: ‘Each One Teach One’.” Traditional Arts Indiana,

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2010 (executive curator) “Viki Graber: Willow Basket Weaver.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2010 (executive curator) “‘Mom, You Got Pudding?’ - Judy Shaw: Persimmon Pudding.” Traditional

Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2010 (executive curator) “Uncle Otis’ Jam Session.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2009 (executive curator) “Geoff, Chris, and Phoebe Davis: Ukulele Family.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2009 (executive curator) “Anthony Redfeather Nava: Native American Cultural Artist.” Traditional

Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2009 (executive curator) “Bill Bailey: Making Music from Everyday Objects.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2009 (executive curator) “Ain Haas: Artist and Educator of Baltic Music Traditions.” Traditional

Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2009 (executive curator) “Clay City Pottery: Shaping a Historic Family Pottery Business.”

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2008 (executive curator) “Celebrating Sukkoth: Building a Jewish Holiday.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

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2008 (executive curator) “Dani Tippmann: Miami Herbalist.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

2007 (executive curator) “Prince Julius Adeniyi: Master Drummer and Mentor.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2007 (executive curator) “The Art of Words: James Yang and His Chinese Calligraphy.” Traditional

Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2007 (executive curator) “‘We Teach Them Life’: Iuri Santos and North Star Capoeria.” Traditional

Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2007 (executive curator) “Music for Old Time’s Sake: Harold Klosterkemper.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2007 (executive curator) Roy Spight: Making Drums, Building Community.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2007 (executive curator) “Traditional Arts Indiana: Tradition in Our Lives and Communities.”

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2006 (executive curator) “Jim Cooper: Hoop Net Maker: The Art of Building Nets.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2006 (executive curator) “Mary Borgman: Master Candy Maker: A Commitment to Excellence.”

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2006 (executive curator) “Joe Rice: St. Clair Glass Tradition: Family Traditions Carried Forward.”

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2006 (executive curator) “Indiana Instrument Builders: Images from Across the State.” Traditional

Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2006 (executive curator) “Indiana Quilters: Vitality in Indiana Quiltmaking.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2006 (executive curator) “Cascarones and Pysanky: Diverse Easter Egg Customs.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2006 (executive curator) “Piecemakers: Indiana State Fair Master Quilters.” Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2006 (executive curator) “Bohall Family Baskets: Lost Legacy of White Oak Basketry.” Traditional

Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

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2006 (executive curator) “Dee Nierman: Rag Rug Weaver.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

DOCUMENTARIES 2017 (director, producer, and videographer) Bill Bailey, Master Washboard and Spoons Player.

Indiana State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/jYK8-TLkNCU

2016 (producer) “Folk Art Summit 2016.” Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

https://youtu.be/uqJiBAs7k4Y 2015 (director, producer, and videographer) Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker. Mathers

Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/Vanb96Fz6Po

2015 (director and producer) Mauri Williamson, Founder of Pioneer Village, Marion County. Indiana

State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/zDMOz2EvitA

2014 (producer) Mary Alice Collins, Baker, Hancock County. Indiana State Fair and Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/5GtHn1DSDNQ 2013 (producer) Mary Schwartz, Needlepoint Artist, Marion County. Indiana State Fair and

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/KkQpc988UvA

2013 (director, producer, and videographer) Making an Oak Box with Randall O’Donnell. Chipstone

Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. http://youtu.be/dcI4J3zcQGQ 2012 (director and producer) Blessing Family: Dairy Farmers, Allen County. Indiana State Fair and

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. http://vimeo.com/45422352.

2011 (producer) Wayne and Helen Drake: Hog Breeders, Wayne County. Indiana State Fair and

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/gKFISwJYK1s

2011 (director and producer) Dee Neirman: Rag Rug Weaver. Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. http://youtu.be/vd43O9qUcWs 2010 (director, producer, and videographer) Harold Stark: Steam Engineer and Repairman, Marion

County. Indiana State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. http://youtu.be/LPTBP6vdMtc.

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2009 (director and producer) Tuttle Orchards: Apple Growers, Hancock County. Indiana State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/7vmwlCjDrE4

2009 (director and producer) Patty Light: Baton Twirler, Boone County. Indiana State Fair and

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/-PcWkATfehs

2008 (director and producer) Gerry Gray and the Family Reunion String Band, Marion County.

Indiana State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/ypll_qlJ-Ng 2008 (director and producer) Donna Jo Copeland: Spinner and Weaver, Morgan County. Indiana

State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/b8-NsZn9yA8

2008 (producer) Jerry Wallin: Wood Working. Indiana Artisans and Indiana Arts Commission,

Indianapolis, Indiana. http://youtu.be/WwSmgYtz0JI 2008 (producer) Joseph Rice: House of Glass. Indiana Artisans and Indiana Arts Commission,

Indianapolis, Indiana. http://youtu.be/nGVqs6KTqD0 2008 (producer) Alan Patrick: Oil Paintings. Indiana Artisans and Indiana Arts Commission,

Indianapolis, Indiana. http://youtu.be/2JWx45xK-ow 2008 (producer) Jay and Lyn Ocken: Ocken Bit Spur. Indiana Artisans and Indiana Arts

Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://youtu.be/HVehtifHmfY 2008 (producer) Sisters of St. Benedict Simply Divine: A Monastery Bakery. Indiana Artisans and

Indiana Arts Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://youtu.be/i-SwqZ3t0ZA 2008 (producer) Jake Webster: Wood and Stone Sculptures. Indiana Artisans and Indiana Arts

Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://youtu.be/9GEMeJPoXI4 2008 (producer) Hoover's Candy and Eatery. Indiana Artisans and Indiana Arts Commission,

Indianapolis, Indiana. http://youtu.be/n7C1mIOOaNA 2008 (producer) Lisa Sparks: Lisa's Pie Shop. Indiana Artisans and Indiana Arts Commission,

Indianapolis, Indiana. http://youtu.be/Vjr8zq0w-DA 2008 (producer) Mild to Wild Pepper and Herb Company. Indiana Artisans and Indiana Arts

Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://youtu.be/Buu6ctZmkjI 2008 (producer) Huber's Starlight Distillery, Orchard and Winery. Indiana Artisans and Indiana Arts

Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://youtu.be/HTeVfVbmzNs

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2007 (director and producer) Ehsan Kousari: an Iranian Santour. Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/o7XtfT13YHs

2007 (director and producer) Bruce Taggart: Instrument Builder and Repairman. Traditional Arts

Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/y8l0-kF_ohA 2007 (director and producer) M. and David Roach: Ocarina Makers. Traditional Arts Indiana,

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/kj0A9saQMNk 2007 (director and producer) David Straubinger: Flute Maker. Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2007 (director and producer) Kurt Simmerman: Dulcimer Maker. Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/iiqhwgPpiI8 2007 (director and producer) Pat O’Riordan: Pennywhistle Maker. Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/4dL6DkDoplQ 2007 (director and producer) Building a Prima with Milan. Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/47Uo7nvudds 2007 (director and producer) Making a Volbrecht: The Building of a Ron Volbrecht Guitar.

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/PVGAzfdzeTo

2007 (director and producer) Noble Melton: Fiddler, Marion County. Indiana State Fair and

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/fy2WZvRODBk

2007 (director and producer) Gerry and Ralph Dunkin: Miniature Donkey Breeders, Hendricks

County. Indiana State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS79HDPyvFc

2006 (director and producer) Bill Harshbarger: Sheep Shearer and Sharpener, Clay County. Indiana

State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/gEkEAQeMOvY

2006 (director and producer) Jack Rodibaugh: Breeding Stock Swine, Jasper County. Indiana State

Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/jKXaj4BxkQ0

2005 (director and producer) The Huber Family: Winemakers, Clark County. Indiana State Fair and

Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/jAcX4S6GmZM

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2005 (director and producer) The Piecemakers: Quilters, Vanderburgh County. Indiana State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. https://youtu.be/KxGQLSQP-G8

AUDIO RECORDINGS AND ARCHIVE PROJECTS 2008 Indiana Musical Instrument Makers and their Craft: Field Interviews and Demonstrations. EVIA

Digital Archive, Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University. www.eviada.org/collection.cfm?ma=7&ctid=37

2000 (director and producer) Zelton Conner: An Okefenokee Swamp Storyteller (Recording).

Folkston, Georgia. 1999 (director and producer) Stephen Foster Memorial Carillon: Way Down Upon the Suwannee

River (Recording). Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center, White Springs, Florida. PODCASTS, WEBINARS AND INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS (host) Indiana Folk Arts Podcast: A Periodic Podcast of Traditional Arts Indiana. Mathers Museum of

World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. (2015) http://www.traditionalartsindiana.org/category/projects-programs/folk-arts-podcast/

2016 “BFA06: The Beauty of Folk Arts Instrument Makers Bruce Taggart & Clint Bear

(January 14) 2016 “BFA05: The Beauty of Folk Arts with Potter Tom Wintczak” (December 12) 2016 “BFA04: The Beauty of Folk Arts with Instrument Makers Bill Berg & Tony Artis

(December 9) 2016 “BFA03: The Beauty of Folk Arts with Bowl Hewer Keith Ruble & Weaver Dee Nierman

(December 7)

2016 “BFA02: The Beauty of Folk Arts with Carol Powers & Jan Boettcher (November 22) 2016 “BFA01: The Beauty of Folk Arts with Netmaker Larry Haycraft.” (November 15)

(guest host) Conversations on Culture: A Periodic Podcast of the Mathers Museum. Mathers Museum

of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. (2015) http://www.mathers.indiana.edu/conversations.html

2016 “Episode 04: Saddler Taylor, McKissick Museum.” (January 05)

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2016 “Episode 03: Nicholas R. Bell, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian.” (January 01) 2015 “Episode 02: Teresa Hollingsworth and Katy Malone, SouthArts.” (December 20) 2015 “Episode 01: Candace Greene, Smithsonian Natural History Museum.” (December 11)

(host and producer) Artisans Ancestors Podcast. Independent Podcast Project. (2010-2014)

http://www.artisanancestors.com/category/podcasts/

2014 “Episode 40: Yuchi Folklore with Jason Baird Jackson.” (January 10) 2013 “Episode 39: Reviving American Basketry.” (October 29) 2013 “Episode 38: The Chesapeake House with Carl Lounsbury.” (August 30) 2013 “Episode 37: American Quilts in China.” (April 8) 2013 “Episode 36: Researching Navajo Basketry with Carol Edison.” (March 5) 2013 “Episode 34: Cannon County Baskets a Tennessee Tradition.” ( February 18) 2013 “Episode 33: Carolina Gravestones with Daniel Patterson.” (February 11) 2013 “Episode 32: South Carolina’s Digital Traditions.” (February 6) 2012 “Episode 31: The Colorful Canes of John Schoolman.” (December 18) 2012 “Episode 29: The Manifold Meaning of Things.” (September 29) 2012 “Episode 28: Folk Art Curator Carrie Hertz.” (September 21) 2012 “Episode 27: Historic Photographs and Material Culture.” (September 13) 2012 “Episode 26: Summer Institute of Museum Anthropology.” (September 1) 2011 “Episode 25: The Promise of Oral History.” (July 6) 2011 “Episode 24: Resurrecting Voices or Finding Forgotten Recordings.” (June 16) 2011 “Episode 23: The African Diaspora and an American Pottery Tradition.” (June 10) 2011 “Episode 22: Why the Creative Commons with Jason Baird Jackson.” (May 25) 2011 “Episode 21: National Heritage Fellow Milan Opacich.” (May 10) 2011 “Episode 20: Connecticut Needlework.” (May 6)

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2011 “Episode 19: Old Gravestones and New Technology.” (April 25) 2011 “Episode 18: The Artisan of Ipswich.” (April 22) 2011 “Episode 17: The Case of the Photo Detective with Maureen Taylor.” (April 8) 2011 “Episode 16: Found Images and Research Methods with Rich Remsberg.” (April 1) 2011 “Episode 15: Computational Folkloristics.” (March 25) 2011 “Episode 14: Catawba Pottery in South Carolina - Part 3.” (March 22) 2011 “Episode 13: Catawba Pottery in South Carolina - Part 2.” (March 14) 2011 “Episode 12: Catawba Pottery in South Carolina - Part 1.” (February 25) 2011 “Episode 11: Searching for a Slave Potter. (February 21) 2011 “Episode 10: Genealogical Next Steps with Curt Witcher.” (January 26) 2011 “Episode 09: Brandt Zipp’s Search for Forgotten African American Potters.” (January

21) 2011 “Episode 08: The Quilts of Prince Edward Island.” (January 18) 2010 “Episode 07: Laurel Horton’s Textile Research.” (December 6) 2010 “Episode 06: The Tennessee Sampler Survey.” (November 24) 2010 “Episode 05: The Saddle Tree Museum.” (November 22) 2010 “Episode 04: Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions.” (October 8) 2010 “Episode 03: Alabama Folk Pottery with Joey Brackner.” (September 17) 2010 “Episode 02: Researching Harmonist Pottery.” (August 20) 2010 “Episode 01: In the Beginning.” (July 25)

(host and producer) Traditional Arts Indiana Webinar Series. Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

2015 “Methods for Presenting Traditions.” (February 11) 2015 “Memory, Art, and Aging.” (March 11)

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2015 “An Apprenticeship Model (with Lisa Higgins).” (February 25)

2014 “Art and Aging.” (May 12) https://youtu.be/TB48Si8JTPM 2014 “Presenting Traditions (with Brent Björkman).” (April 29)

https://youtu.be/aFExPueWTQM 2014 “What are the Traditional Arts?” (April 24) https://youtu.be/RVFUzvdRGo4 2012 “To Be Or Not To Be … Online.” (December 4) http://connect.iu.edu/p5uwrraa9ed/ 2012 “WordPress for Artists.” (June 14) http://connect.iu.edu/p5s2oj7ng9j/ 2012 “Benefits of TAI’s Exhibit Network.” (February 28)

http://breeze.iu.edu/p166k9ljc94/

2012 “A Performer’s Toolkit.” (January 26) http://breeze.iu.edu/p2jt3d4ppff/ (host and producer) Second Servings Podcast. Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. http://www.traditionalartsindiana.org/secondservings

2012 “Episode 10: Persimmon Pudding.” (February 29) 2012 “Episode 09: Diners and Community Institutions.” (February 2) 2012 “Episode 08: Meat of the Matter.” (January 17) 2011 “Episode 07: Food Trucks.” (December 13) 2011 “Episode 06: Canned Heat.” (December 5) 2011 “Episode 05: Familiar Foods in a Foreign Land.” (December 1) 2011 “Episode 04: Morel Mushrooms.” (October 28) 2011 “Episode 03: Hoosier Homebrew.” (October 6) 2011 “Episode 02: Turtle Soup.” (September 30) 2011 “Episode 01: Breaded Pork Tenderloin.” (September 1)

(host and producer) “Fieldwork Guide: Video Tutorials for Beginning Fieldworkers.” Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2010 “Fieldwork Guide: Preparing for an Interview.” https://youtu.be/HUR0pZWzJqQ

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2010 “Fieldwork Guide: Structuring interview questions.” https://youtu.be/OI98Ri4Fa74 2010 “Fieldwork Guide: Getting Interesting Answers.” https://youtu.be/TLJxWq8cgRo 2010 “Fieldwork Guide: Mics, cameras & tripods: oh gear!” https://youtu.be/HS5Md-

c5bv4 PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED) 2017 “Life-Story Art in Later Life.” C.C. Young: Senior Living, Senior Care; Dallas, Texas. 2017 “Brown County Baskets: A Traditional Craft in a Tourist Economy.” Brown County Art Gallery;

Nashville, Indiana. 2017 “Life-Story Art & Aging: Material Life Review in Everyday Life.” Department of Sociology,

Gerontology & Gender. University of Missouri–St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri. 2017 “Bob Taylor’s Memory Carvings.” Dean of University Libraries Advisory Board Meeting.

Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana. 2017 “Traditional Arts Indiana’s Bicentennial Exhibition: A Collaborative Model for Presenting

Traditional Artists.” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2017 “Folk Art & Aging Author Talk.” Museum of International Folk Art and the New Mexico Arts

Commission. Santa Fe, New Mexico 2017 “Folk Art and Aging.” Commonwealth Senior Living and the Virginia Festival of the Book;

Charlottesville; Virginia. 2017 “Memoir as Art, Place.” Virginia Festival of the Book; Charlottesville, Virginia. https://youtu.be/gIBDN8hBaBE 2017 “Work Baskets to Tourist Craft: The Shifting Meaning of Baskets.” Museum of Art and

Archaeology; University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. 2017 “Life-Story Art and Aging: How Making Art Helps Older Adults.” Missouri Folk Arts Program.

University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. 2017 “Life Stories in Words and Art.” (co-presenter Elaine J. Lawless). Missouri Folk Arts Program.

St. Louis County Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri. 2016 “Engaging State Arts Agencies in Creative Aging.” (co-presenter Lewis Ricci) 2016

LeadingAge Annual Meeting & EXPO, Indianapolis, Indiana.

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2016 “Memory Painting Reconsidered: Life Stories, Art, and Aging.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida.

2016 “Folk Arts, Aging, Health and Wellness: Uniquely Structured for Impact.” National Assembly

of State Arts Agencies, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2016 “Folk Art and Creative Aging.” Mini-University, Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 “Gustave Potthoff’s Creative Aging Practice.” Meadowood Retirement Community and

Bloomington Creative Aging Festival, Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 “John Wooden’s Legacy.” (Moderator). Indiana Bicentennial Commission and City of

Martinsville, Martinsville, Indiana. 2015 “The Last Basketmaker: Indiana Oak-Rod Baskets and Their Makers.” International Oaks

Society Conference, Chicago, Illinois. http://youtu.be/bUvsl-GAn0A 2015 “Life-Story Objects: Folk Art and Aging in Indiana.” American Folklore Society Annual

Meeting, Long Beach, California. 2015 “Effective Measures for Live Cultural Programming” (co-presenter Betty Belanus). Visitor

Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana. 2015 “Memory Painting and Death Camps.” Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2015 “Public Folklore Roundtable” (co-presenters Stephen Stempfle and Rebecca Dirksen).

Indiana University/Ohio State University Student Folklore Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

2015 “Gustave Baumann’s Brown County.” Brown County Historical Society, Nashville, Indiana. 2015 “Placemaking: Research at the Intersection of Person and Place.” National Center for

Creative Aging’s Leadership Exchange and Conference on Creative Aging, Washington, DC. 2014 “Quarreling with Modernity: Gustave Baumann’s Brown County Prints.” American Folklore

Society Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico. https://youtu.be/_fQWsVUJ7KM 2014 “Memory Arts and Aging: Life Lessons for Seniors.” Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville,

Indiana. 2013 “Slat-Back Chairs in Kentucky and Indiana.” Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana

University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2013 “No Place Like Home: How to Identify, Document, and Promote Local Cultural Resources.”

Tippecanoe Arts Federation’s Arts and Economic Development Conference, Delphi, Indiana.

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2013 “Folk Art and Successful Aging.” Bloomington Creative Aging Festival, Bloomington, Indiana. 2013 “Folk Art and Aging in Indiana.” Mill Race Center, Columbus, Indiana. 2013 “Gravestones in Southern Indiana.” Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. http://youtu.be/bUvsl-GAn0A 2013 “The Walking Sticks of John Schoolman: Creating a Space for Social Interaction.” American

Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island. http://youtu.be/MPYvdDKzVGI 2012 “Vernacular Architecture Workshop.” (co-presenter Thomas Carter). Cornelius O’Brien

Lecture Series Concerning Historic Preservation, National Council on Public History, Indianapolis, Indiana.

2012 “Public Folklore, Public Universities, and Public Service.” Department of Folklore and

Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2011 “Oral History and Digital Tools.” Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2010 “In Search of Chester Cross: A Narrative in Tombstone Authorship.” Indiana Association of

Grave Stone Studies Meeting, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 2010 “Creative Cartography and a Brown County Tourist Map.” Hoosier Folklore Society Annual

Meeting, Terre Haute, Indiana. 2009 “A Picture of an Old Country Store: The Construction of Folklore in Everyday Life.” Hoosier

Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Nashville, Indiana. 2009 “The Alvis Partin Farm: Memories of a Farm in Eastern Bell County, Kentucky.” Pioneer

America Society Annual Meeting, Pipestem, West Virginia. 2009 “Hoosier Mingei: Making Rugs for the ‘Japanese Ladies’.” American Folklore Society Annual

Meeting, Boise, Idaho. 2008 “A Turtleback Prima: Narratives and Narrated Objects.” American Folklore Society Annual

Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky. 2007 “Indiana Instrument Makers.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee,

Wisconsin. 2005 “Folklife-in-Parks Initiatives” co-presenters Jens Lund and Bobby Fulcher. National

Association of State Park Directors, Puget Sound, Washington.

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2003 “Traditional Baskets in Florida Conference.” Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center, White Springs, Florida.

2003 “Presenting Gospel Music.” Performing Arts Exchange, Charlotte, North Carolina. 2003 “Folklife and Ecotourism II.” Travel South Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 2003 “Folklife and Parks: Models for Conserving Local Life.” Florida State Park Manager Meeting,

Gainesville, Florida. 2003 “Cost Effective Heritage Programming.” Southeastern State Park Programs Seminar,

Cordele, Georgia. 2001 “Folklife, Parks, and Ecotourism.” National Recreation and Park Association Conference,

Daytona Beach, Florida. 2002 “Roots of American Music.” Florida Humanities Council’s Speaker’s Bureau, St. Petersburg,

Florida. 2001 “Increase Revenue through Programming.” Florida State Parks’ Annual Park Manager’s

Meeting, Gainesville, Florida. 2001 “Folklife of the Suwannee.” Four Rivers, Two States, One Basin: A Research Symposium for

the Suwannee Basin, Live Oak, Florida. 2001 “Folklife and the Environment.” Florida Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Gainesville, Florida. 2000 “Presenting Traditional Artists: Techniques and Critiques.” Missouri Arts Council, St. Louis,

Missouri. 2000 “Presenting Traditional Artists: Techniques and Critiques.” Mississippi Arts Commission,

Jackson, Mississippi. 2000 “‘You don’t kill the hog till the water gets hot’: Verbal Art and Checkers in North Florida.”

Florida Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida. 1999 “Folklife and Parks: Models for Conserving Local Life.” Southeastern Park Programs

Seminar, St. Augustine, Florida. 1999 “Exploring Folklife in Your Community.” Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville,

Florida. 1999 “Folklife and Ecotourism.” National Watchable Wildlife Conference, Port Charlotte, Florida. 1999 “Early Florida Folklorists: Sarah Gertrude Knott and the First Florida Folk Festival.” Florida

Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, Florida.

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1998-2000 “Rural Folklife Days: Teacher In-service.” Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center,

White Springs, Florida. 1998 “Our Town: Using Your Community in Cultural Interpretation.” Indiana State Museum and

Historic Sites’ Annual Interpreters Meeting, Mitchell, Indiana. 1998 “Can We Talk: Oral History and Parks.” Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites’ Annual

Interpreters Meeting, Mitchell, Indiana. 1997 “Presenting Traditional Artists” co-presenters Bob Gates and Larry Morrissey. Kentucky Arts

Council Conference, Bowling Green, Kentucky. 1996 “Kentucky’s Folklorist-in-Parks Program” co-presenters Bob Gates and Larry Morrissey.

Southeastern State Parks Program Seminar, Frankfort, Kentucky. 1995 “From Headstones to Stone Head: A Tour of Pre-Civil War Cemeteries.” Brown County Life

Long Learning Center, Nashville, Indiana. 1995 “Folk Music in the Classroom.” Indiana Music Educators Association Annual Meeting,

Indianapolis, Indiana. 1994 “Will Vawter: The Life and Art of a Brown County Artist.” Brown County Art Guild, Nashville,

Indiana. PUBLIC PROGRAMS (SELECTED) 2004-2017 “Indiana State Fair Masters Program.” Coordinated selection and presentation of

award for the Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis, Indiana. 2004-2017 “Indiana State Fair Fiddle Contest.” Coordinated contest for Indiana State Fair,

Indianapolis, Indiana. 2012-2017 “Hoosier Outdoor Experience.” Coordinated folklife area for the Indiana Department

of Natural Resources, Fort Harrison State Park, Lawrence, Indiana. 2013-2017 “Limestone Weekend.” Presented limestone carvers at Spring Mill State Park,

Mitchell, Indiana 2016 “Beauty of Indiana Folk Art Residencies.” Series of 16 artist residencies for Indiana

University’s Themester, Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington, Indiana. 2016 “Indiana Folk Arts.” Folklife Area at the Hoosier Homecoming Bicentennial Celebration.

Indiana State House, Indianapolis, Indiana.

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2016 “Memory and Creativity: A Conversation with Elder Folk Artists.” Narrative stage for Bloomington Creative Aging Festival, Bloomington, Indiana.

2016 “Folk Art Summit.” Coordinated workshop for folk artists from around the state. Mathers

Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington, Indiana. 2013-2016 “Arts in the Park.” Coordinated craft demonstrations at McCormicks Creek State

Park, Spencer, Indiana. 2015-2016 “Lotus in the Park.” Coordinated folklife area and narrative stage for Lotus Festival,

Bloomington, Indiana. 2015 “Traditional Arts Today.” Coordinated traditional arts demonstrations at Spring Mill State

Park, Mitchell, Indiana. 2015 “Chautauqua.” Coordinated folklife area at Shades State Park, Rockville, Indiana. 2012 “Indiana University: Campus and Community.” Presented artists at the Smithsonian Folklife

Festival, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. 2011 “Midwest Folklife Festival.” Presented artists from Indiana at multistate festival, Dodgeville,

Wisconsin. 2010 “Homegrown Concert Series with the Not Too Bad Bluegrass Band.” Presented artists at the

Library of Congress and Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington, DC. http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M4421

2007-2010 “Indiana Festival.” Coordinated folklife area at Conner Prairie, Fishers, Indiana. 2008 “Building Bluegrass.” Presented instrument makers and bluegrass music concert at the

Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, Indianapolis, Indiana. 2006 “October Fest.” Coordinated folklife area for community festival, Marion, Indiana. 2004-2006 “Fair on the Square.” Coordinated folklife area for festival, Bloomington, Indiana. 2002-2004 “Florida Folk Festival.” Directed state folk festival, White Springs, Florida. 2000-2004 “Elderhostel.” Led lifelong-learning classes at the Montgomery Center on traditional

music of Florida, Keystone Heights, Florida. 2000-2003 “Rural Folklife Days.” Coordinated folklife demonstrations, Stephen Foster Folk

Culture Center, White Springs, Florida. 1998-2003 “Elderhostel.” Led lifelong-learning classes on Florida Folklife at the Stephen Foster

Folk Culture Center, White Springs, Florida.

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1997-2002 “Craft Square.” Coordinated daily craft demonstrations, Stephen Foster Folk Culture

Center, White Springs, Florida. 1998-1999 “Rural Folklife Days.” Assisted with folklife demonstrations, Florida Folklife Program,

Florida Department of State, White Springs, Florida. 1997-2001 “Kentucky Folklife Festival.” Presented artists at folklife festival and hosted narrative stage, Kentucky Folklife Program, Frankfort, Kentucky. 1995 “Whittlers Weekend.” Coordinated woodcarving event at Pine Mountain State Resort Park,

Pineville, Kentucky. 1995 “Pine Mountain Folklife Series.” Coordinated music programs and craft demonstrations at

Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Pineville, Kentucky. COURSES Undergraduate: Indiana Folklore Indiana University: 2007-2011,

2013-2017 Beauty of Indiana Folk Art Indiana University: 2016

(Themester Course) Work as Art: Occupational Folklore in the United

States http://inside.indiana.edu/features/videos/2016-01-20-work-is-art-course.shtml

Indiana University: 2015 (Themester Course)

Graduate: Laboratory in Public Folklore

Indiana University: 2016

Public Practice in Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Indiana University: 2015, 2017

Professional Development Training:

Parks and Public Programs Ranger Academy (Florida State Parks): 2002-2004

Performing Arts Toolbox: SouthArts’ Professional Development for Performing Artists

Minnesota Arts Board: 2002 (Minneapolis, MN) Performing Arts Exchange: 2002 (Louisville, KY) Mississippi Arts Commission: 2002 (Jackson, MS) Kentucky Arts Council: 2001 (Frankfort, KY)

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Florida Folklife: Rural Roots and Living Traditions Florida Humanities Council’s

Center for Teachers: 2002, 2001 (St. Petersburg, FL)

GRANTS RECEIVED 2018 “Traditional Arts and Creative Aging.” National Endowment for the Arts. (funding pending) 2004-2017 “Traditional Arts Indiana Partnership Grant.” Indiana Arts Commission. (principal

investigator) 2016 “Beauty of Indiana Folk Arts Residency and Podcast.” 2016 Themester Co-Curricular Grant,

College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University. (principal investigator) 2015 “Indiana Folk Arts: 200 Years of Tradition and Innovation.” National Endowment for the Arts.

(principal investigator) 2015 “The Art of Limestone Work.” 2015 Themester Co-Curricular Grant, College of Arts and

Sciences, Indiana University. (principal investigator) 2015 (with Jason Baird Jackson) “@Work with Basketry on a Changing Planet.” 2015 Themester

Co-Curricular Events Programming Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University. (co-principal investigator)

2015 (with Jason Baird Jackson) “@Work with Basketry on a Changing Planet.” 2015 Themester

Co-Curricular Exhibition Programming Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University. (co-principal investigator)

2014 Capacity Building Program; Indiana Arts Commission. (principal investigator) 2013 “Traditional Arts in Contemporary Indiana Communities.” National Endowment for the Arts.

(principal investigator) 2012 “Traditional Musical Artist Webinar Series.” Indiana Arts Commission. (principal investigator) 2012 “African American Quilting in Fort Wayne, Indiana.” Mary Turner Wright Folklore Award,

Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. (principal investigator)

2012 “Musical Diversity in the Hoosier State: Public Awareness and Engagement.” National

Endowment for the Arts. (principal investigator) 2011 “Contemporary Folk Traditions Traveling Exhibition II.” National Endowment for the Arts.

(principal investigator)

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2010 “Second Servings: Enhanced Podcast about Indiana Foodways.” Indiana Humanities Council. (principal investigator)

2009 “Contemporary Folk Traditions: Traveling Exhibition I.” National Endowment for the Arts.

(principal investigator) 2007 “Folk Arts Outreach Project.” National Endowment for the Arts. (principal investigator) 2006 “Traditional Arts of Indiana Small Businesses.” National Endowment for the Arts. (principal

investigator) 2006 “Folk Arts Surveys of Dearborn, Franklin, Jackson, Jennings, Ohio, Ripley, and Switzerland

counties.” Eli Lilly Foundation, Indianapolis and Indiana University. (principal investigator) 2006 “I-69 Heritage Corridor Online Tour. National Endowment for the Arts. (principal investigator) 2006 “Statewide Traditional Resources and Training.” National Endowment for the Arts. (principal

investigator) 2005 “Indiana Instrument Makers Project.” National Endowment for the Arts. (principal

investigator) 2005 “Indiana Master-Apprenticeship Program” National Endowment for the Arts. (principal

investigator) 2003 “Storytellers of the Upper Suwannee River Valley.” Florida Humanities Council Fellowship.

(principal investigator) 2002 “Traditional Baskets in Florida.” National Endowment for the Arts. (principal investigator) 1997 “Folklorist-in-Residence.” Kentucky Arts Council, Frankfort, Kentucky. Grant Review Panels 2017 National Endowment for the Arts 2017 Traditional Arts Indiana Apprenticeship Program (Chair) 2015 National Endowment for the Humanities 2005-2010 Indiana Arts Commission 2007 National Endowment for the Arts 2002 Kentucky Folklife Program 2000 Florida Folklife Program 1999 Mississippi Arts Commission

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Special Service and Honors 2016 Folk Arts Peer Group Meeting (committee). National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Grand

Rapids, Michigan. 2016 Indiana Arts Commission Strategic Planning Committee. Indiana Arts Commission,

Indianapolis, Indiana. 2014 Folk Arts Peer Group Meeting (co-chair). National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, New

Orleans, Louisiana. 2013 Governor’s Arts Award for Traditional Arts Indiana. Indiana Arts Commission, Indianapolis,

Indiana. 2013 “Ranger Lore” (with Brent Björkman), Archie Green Fellowship. American Folklife Center,

Library of Congress, Washington, DC. 2012 Indiana Arts Commission Strategic Planning Committee. Indiana Arts Commission,

Indianapolis, Indiana. 2009 Warren Roberts Graduate Student Paper Prize Pioneer America Society (Now the

International Society for Landscape, Place and Material Culture). 2010- 2014 Hoosier Folklore Society President 2008-2010 Hoosier Folklore Society Vice-President

2007 Indiana Arts Commission Strategic Planning Committee. Indiana Arts Commission,

Indianapolis, Indiana. 2001-2003 Florida Folklore Society President 2001 Division of Recreation and Park’s Public Service Award. Florida Park Service, Tallahassee,

Florida. 2000 Joe Kenner: Interpreter of the Year. Florida Park Service, Tallahassee, Florida. BROADCAST INTERVIEWS 2016 “Memory in My Hands: Folk Art and Aging” on Interchange. WFHB Community Radio. Doug

Storm, host. http://wfhb.org/news/interchange-memory-in-my-hands-folk-art-and-aging/ 2015 “Southern Indiana’s Lost Craft” on Earth Eats. WFIU Public Radio, Indiana University. Annie

Corrigan, host. http://indianapublicmedia.org/arts/oak-rod-basket-making-southern-indianas-lost-craft/

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2015 “Passing Down the Past” on Kids Count Radio. The Indiana Youth Institute. http://s3.amazonaws.com/iyi-website/radio-shows/August-16-2015-Radio-Shows-Passing-

Down-the-Past.mp3?mtime=20151109090034 2013 “Telling the Story” on Interchange. WFHB Community Radio. Alycin Bektesh, host. http://wfhb.org/news/interchange-leigh-bush-and-jon-kay-telling-the-story/ PROJECT WEBSITES Folk Art and Aging (2016) www.folkartandaging.com Artisan Ancestors (2011) www.artisanancestors.com Folk Traditions of Indiana (2006) www.folktraditions.com Traditional Arts Indiana (2011) www.traditionalartsindiana.org Crafting Sound (2008) http://www.indiana.edu/~tradarts/craftingsound/