EventReal Folk: Passing on Trades and Traditions of the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program – Exhibition
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum is temporarily closed to the public because of Covid-19, but is now offering a virtual tour of the Real Folk exhibition: Since 2002, the …
Sights & SoundsMaster Artist Spotlight: Mark Cline
Mark Cline is a master artist in the 2019-2020 class of apprenticeship teams in the art of roadside attractions and fiberglass sculpture. In this feature Richmond-writer Don Harrison takes an …
Sights & SoundsMark Cline and Brently Hilliard
Known as the “P.T. Barnum of the Blue Ridge,” Mark Cline is keeping alive the vanishing tradition of the roadside attraction—those haunted houses, singing caverns, historical parks, and outsized food …
Sights & SoundsRonald Dixon and William Hinkle
Stained glass master artist Ronald Dixon grew up viewing stained glass art from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in his native Northern Ireland, spending hours in local cathedrals while his …
Sights & SoundsRemembering Mama-Girl
With profound sadness, we mark the passing of one of Virginia’s most beloved folk artists, Eastern Shore painter, sculptor, and pastor Mary “Mama-Girl” Onley, at age 64.
Sights & SoundsFeed Your Soul: Another Epic Richmond Folk Festival
Photo highlights from the 2017 Richmond Folk Festival, we kept our promise to “Feed Your Soul!”
Sights & SoundsPhotos from the Apprenticeship Showcase 2016
Photographic highlights from the 2016 Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase at James Monroe’s Highland.
NewsFolklife Apprenticeship Exhibition on display at Showcase
Documenting the shared work of the master and apprentice is an integral part of the Apprenticeship Program. For the past five years, Pat Jarrett, the digital media specialist for the …
Sights & SoundsMary “Mama-Girl” Onley and David Rogers
Pastor Mary Onley, known as Mama-Girl, is a self-taught artist who was born and raised in Painter, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, where she still lives. Her lyrical sculptures are similar …
Sights & SoundsRichard Pippin and Melissa Jones and Zoe Bearinger
By one estimate, humans took more than 900 billion photographs in 2015 and shared more than 200,000 images per minute on Facebook. This flood of digital images is unprecedented, but …
NewsVirginia Folklife Program partners with Google Cultural Institute to bring one-of-a-kind eastern Virginia gospel recordings online
More than 180 digital assets from the Virginia Folklife Program can be viewed online thanks to a new partnership with the Google Cultural Institute. By partnering with cultural institutions worldwide, …
