The records of America: Now and Here, a traveling arts program headquartered in New York City that provided traveling arts presentations, measure 0.9 linear feet and 5.05 GB and date from circa 2010-2012. The collection consists of interviews with artists and poets, two writings, and printed and digital material, much relating to the America: Now and Here program in Kansas City (2011 May). The materials were designed to create interactive dialogues with visitors about the "American Journey," our culture, the arts, and creativity.
Scope and Contents:
The records of America: Now and Here, a traveling arts program headquartered in New York City that provided traveling arts presentations, measure 0.9 linear feet and 5.05 GB and date from circa 2010-2012. The collection consists of interviews with artists and poets, two writings, and printed and digital material, much relating to the America: Now and Here program in Kansas City (2011 May). The materials were designed to create interactive dialogues with visitors about the "American Journey," our culture, the arts, and creativity.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged as 4 series.
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Series 1: Interviews, circa 2010 (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet, ER01; 1.52 GB)
Series 3: Printed Material, circa 2010-2012 (Boxes 1-2, OV 3; 0.5 linear feet, ER03; 2.01 GB)
Series 4: Artwork, circa 2010 (Box 2; 1 folder)
Historical Note:
America: Now and Here, a privately funded project, was founded by artist Eric Fischl with Dorothy Dunn as Director. Its mission was to provide a multi-disciplinary art experience that would travel from cities to small towns, encouraging dialogues among ordinary Americans about issues of importance to this country. Included in the program were visual art exhibitions, plays, movies, music, poetry, and inter-active exercises with an emphasis on young people's participation. More than 150 artists were involved with the program. Mobile truck visual art exhibitions would be situated with performance space and retail shops, driving economic activity in participating regions. The exhibitions traveled to Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Baltimore, Aspen and other venues. The program was suspended in 2012 due to lack of funds.
Provenance:
The America: Now and Here records were donated to the Archives of American Art in 2012 by Dorothy Dunn, former Director of the organization.
Restrictions:
Use of original material requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requrires advance notice.
Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Contemporary American Indian Painting : [exhibition] National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. / foreword by David E. Finley; introduction by Dorothy Dunn
Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994 Search this
Container:
Box 228
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1951 March 11
Scope and Contents note:
Job Number: 55472
Subseries Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view negatives due to cold storage. Using negatives requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.
Subseries Rights:
When the Museum purchased the collection from the Estate of Robert S. Scurlock, it obtained all rights, including copyright. The earliest photographs in the collection are in the public domain because their term of copyright has expired. The Archives Center will control copyright and the use of the collection for reproduction purposes, which will be handled in accordance with its standard reproduction policy guidelines. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Subseries Citation:
Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The collection was acquired with assistance from the Eugene Meyer Foundation. Elihu and Susan Rose and the Save America's Treasures program, provided funds to stabilize, organize, store, and create digital surrogates of some of the negatives. Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Introduction:
The U.S. Virgin Islands is a U.S. territory and a multicultural American society in the Caribbean Sea. Its culture reflects the continuity of African and European traditions, their creolization, or amalgamation, into new forms in the crucible of intense political and economic interaction, and the influence of more recent immigrants from Puerto Rico and the eastern Caribbean. Yet within this cultural diversity, Virgin Islanders recognize a unity born of intimate island community life. Despite many challenges, folklife is still a creative resource in the lives of many U.S. Virgin Islanders. Virgin Islands' folklife is the legacy of generations who brought cultural traditions from Africa, Europe, and elsewhere; adapted those traditions to meet local needs; and combined them with those of other cultures in vibrant and useful new forms. Although unique, the development of traditional culture in the Virgin Islands has been affected by the same historical movements and social practices that have shaped other Caribbean societies. The styles and traditions distinctive to the Islands are what Virgin Islanders call their native culture. In the context of Caribbean creolization, the concept of native is thereby given a new meaning. Native culture here means an emergent, contmuously evolving, local creole culture that is distinct from similar cultures of other islands. This native culture absorbs and reworks cultural practices that came and are still coming from both outside and within the Caribbean.
The Festival program was researched and designed by scholars and community members of the three islands making up the U.S. Virgin Islands, in collaboration with the curator and Office of Folklife Programs staff. Local researchers suggested an interesting strategy for interpreting traditions of the Virgin Islands to create a public program. This was to identify "cultural touchstones" or historical points of reference that are still useful in understanding the present. The big yard, the marketplace, and public celebration were selected as meaningful cultural touchstones to all three islands. The big yard developed in urban neighborhoods of St. Thomas as shared area behind row houses where workers lived. The big yard was the setting for everyday activity, casual or planned meetings, storytelling under the tamarind tree, laundering, cooking, children's play, and gossiping. While the big yard shapes the private world of the home, the marketplace is at the crossroads of commerce where people sell and trade, throw words, preach, campaign and catch up on events of the day. Its values are public; its gestures and jests may be broad. Socially inclusive and temporarily transforming, celebrations join domestic and public spaces and bring the islands together, whether it is carnival on St. Thomas, the Day of the Kings Festival on St. Croix, or Emancipation Day on St. John. Festival visitors could encounter the diverse traditions of the U.S. Virgin Islands through these three touchstones.
Olivia Cadaval served as Curator, with Flora Boynes-Spencer as U.S. Virgin Islands Supervisor, Anna Mae Brown-Comment as U.S. Virgin Islands Coordinator, Claire Raker as St. Croix Liaison, and Betz Robb as Program Coordinator. From the U.S. Virgin Islands National Park Service, Jacquelyn Clendinen and Denise Georges served as Assistant Coordinators and Gilbert Sprauve as General Advisor and Researcher.
The U.S. Virgin Islands program was made possible by the Honorable Governor Alexander A. Farrelly, the Office of the Governor, the 18th Legislature of the Virgin Islands, the Department of Economic Development and Agriculture, Division of Tourism, Department of Planning and Natural Resources, the Virgin Islands Council on The Arts, Paradise Motors, Inc., Little Switzerland, Virgin Islands AT&T, West Indian Company Ltd., Caribbean Host, Caribbean Safewater Lab., Caribbean Shell Seekers, Sea Breeze Car Rental, Tropex, Inc., and other corporate sponsors.
Fieldworkers:
Edna Mae Belardo, Violet Bough, Janet Burton, Brent Cantrell, Andromeda Childs, Bradley Christian, Jacquelyn Clendinen, Glenn "Kwabena" Davis, Delta Dorsch, Anastasia Doward, Cassandra Dunn, Dorothy Elskoe, Gene Emanuel, Lorelie Esannason, Denise Georges, Lois Hassell-Habteyes, Catherine Hiebert-Kerst, Myron Jackson, Stanley Jacobs, Ruth Moolenaar, Mario Picayo, Leslie Reovan, Verne Richards, Eulalie Rivera, Jewel Ross Sage, Karen Samuel, Daniel Sheehy, Mary Jane Soule, Maurice Thomas, Rufus Vanderpool, Leona Brady Watson
Blinky & The Roadmasters, scratch band -- Blinky & The Roadmasters, scratch bandAnselmo Clarke, squash, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsNorman Edwards, trap drums, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsMilton "Meg" Gordon, bass guitar, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsIsidor "I.G." Griles, triangle, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsCyprian "Zip" King, guitar, Kingshill, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsSylvester "Blinky" McIntosh Sr., alto saxophone, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsIra "Baker/Dormis" Samuel, alto saxophone, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsLloyd "Perico" Thomas, conga, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Calypsonians
Kenneth "Lord Blakie" Blake, calypso, composer, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Ashley "Ashanti" George, calypso, agriculturist, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Camille "King Derby" Macedon Jr., banjo ukulele, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Cariso Singers
Ethel Mcintosh, 1907-2006, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Leona Watson, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Carnival Traditions
Cecile "Dallars" George, 1914-, drumming, carpentry, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Willard John, 1951-, -- moko jumbie -- , Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Clement Cain Magras, 1949-, storytelling, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
John McCleverty, -- moko jumbie -- , St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Milo & The Kings, brass and calypso
Anthony Crooke, bass, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Emile "Milo" Francis, keyboards, leader, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Nya "Cocky" Francis, drums, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
James Gerard, vocals, bass, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Herman Lynch, conga, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Roy Malone, 1934-1998, guitar, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Ira "Dr. Sax" Meyers, saxophone, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Rudolph Thomas, vocals, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Collins Wesselhoft, trumpet, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Pleneros de Santa Cruz, plena -- Pleneros de Santa Cruz, plenaNicolás "Colilla" Encarnación, 1924-, guitar, Fredriksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsAmador Felix, 1935-2005, bongo, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsSalvador "Salva" Fragosa, 1944-, cuatro, Kingshill, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsGuillermo Munoz, guitar, cuatro, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsFrancisco Sanche, pandereta, Kingshill, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsMarceleno Santiago, 1910-, pandereta, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
St. Croix Heritage Dancers, quadrille -- St. Croix Heritage Dancers, quadrilleBradley Christian, 1956-, quadrille calling, masquerading, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsTheresa Douglas, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsAnn Doute, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsGeorge Fachete, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsGordon Finch, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsPatricia Forup, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsPrudence Morris, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsMarcus Mulligan, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsRobert Pennyfellow, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsCraig Wells, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsYvonne Williams, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsPatricia Willson, dancing, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Storytellers
Delta Dorsch, 1921-2005, storytelling, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Eulalie Rivera, 1909-2009, storytelling, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Ector Roebuck, 1935-2009, storytelling, games, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Elmo Roebuck, storytelling, games, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Rufus Vanderpool, oral histories, North Star Village, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Ten Sleepless Nights, scratch band and quadrille -- Ten Sleepless Nights, scratch band and quadrilleKenneth Buntin, guitar, Kingshill, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsEldred "Edgie" Christian, banjo, vocals, Kingshill, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsStanley "Escascolay" Jacobs, 1941-, flute, saxophone, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsRobert "Bobby" Jacobs, conga, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsLawrence "Thrushy" Mason, squash, Kingshill, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsBeneth Smith, bass, Kingshill, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsChristian "Te" Thompson, triangle, steel, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Occupational Traditions
Kenneth Broome, 1922-, carpentry, furniture making, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Reginald Callwood, 1935-, stone masonry, Cruz Bay, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Richard Callwood, 1931-, woodcarving, caning, toy making, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
James Dalmida, 1927-2001, fishing, Coral Bay, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Anthon O. Emanuel, 1926-2005, broom making, masonry, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Elmira Farrell, 1934-, herbal medicine, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Eddie Fay, gardening, charcoal making, Coral Bay, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Arnalda Kennings, carpentry, construction, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Joe LaPlace, 1927-2004, fishing, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Oscar McGregor, fishing, fish pot making, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Wendell Nibbs, 1931-2001, herbal medicine, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Iantha Jackson Peets, 1920-1999, herbal medicine, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Gabriel Whitney St. Jules, 1930-, charcoal making, gardening, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Sanderilla Thomas, 1911-1999, market woman, storytelling, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Will Thurland, 1933-, carpentry, inlaying, caning, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Crafts, U.S. Virgin Islands
Felicia Emelda Caines, 1918-2004, basketry, herbalist, Coral Bay, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Dorothy Danet, 1921-2005, basketry, hat weaving, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Aline Kean, 1902-2006, toy making, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Louisa Kean, 1905-, crochet, embroidery, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Hillary "Baga" Rezende, steel pan making, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Foodways
Helmie Leonard, 1932-1997, baking, cooking, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Louise Samuel, 1936-, native foods, beverages, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Evarista Santiago, Puerto Rican cooking, Kingshill, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Carnival Troupes
Birds in Ecstasy, University of the Virgin Islands
Cool Session Brass
Elskoe and Associates, Let's Dance
Hugga Bunch
Imagination Brass
Jesters as Mask Array
Moko Jumbi 'n' Fren Dem
Mungo Niles Cultural Dancers, Inc.
Out of the Woodwork
The Racketeers
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Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1990 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
