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<p class="MsoNormal">All, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m really sorry to be sending you this request so late in our schedule for identifying and documenting folk & traditional artists in the 5 counties that make up the Portland Metro: Washington, Multnomah, Yamhill, Columbia, and Clackamas.
Please see attached for details (originally sent out to the media in October). We could especially use some assistance with contacts in Yamhill County.
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<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">As Oregon’s Folk & Traditional Arts Program, the OFN wants to find excellent folk artists and culture keepers. We are looking for master artists to
serve as mentors for the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. OFN will include the best of those documented in our Roster, an online curated resource for local festivals, parks, school, and library programs looking for performers, demonstrators, and speakers.
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<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">OFN Folklorists Douglas Manger, Nancy Nusz, and Makaela Kroin will be in the Portland Metro during November 2016 to identify and document culture keepers.
Biographies for each folklorist are at the end of this release [see attached for more details and bios].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">OFN will be working with a range of cultural partners such as World Pulse, the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (especially IRCO’s Asian
Family Center and Africa House), Lan Su Chinese Gardens, Milagro Theatre, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and our operational partners (Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Cultural Trust). We’ll be creating public programs and
working with 10 community scholars from diverse communities to provide training in self-documentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We are eager for contact information for traditional musicians, dancers</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">, quilters,
embroiderers, storytellers, fly-tiers, cooks, artisans, and more from the Portland Metro’s residents. We very much want to hear from the range of Portland’s communities: Native American, African American, European (English, German, Greek, Irish, Jewish, Norwegian,
Scottish), Africans (from Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Liberia, Chad, Togo), Asian and Pacific Islander (Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Hawai’ian, Japanese, Korean, Khmer, Lao, Hmong, Mien, Thai, Vietnamese), Latino (Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran,
Nicaraguan, Columbia), and Middle Eastern (Iraqi, Israeli, Lebanese, Palestinian, Persian, Turkish).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please send any contacts you have right now directly to Douglas Manger (<a href="mailto:douglas@heritageworks.net">douglas@heritageworks.net</a>). If you come up with ideas after December 2, feel free to send those contacts to Makaela
Kroin (makaelak@uoregon.edu); Makaela will be doing more work to document culture keepers in the new year.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks so much!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Riki<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Rachelle H Saltzman, PhD, Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Oregon Folklife Network<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">242 Knight Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">6204 University of Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Eugene OR 97403<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">541-346-3820<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:riki@uoregon.edu">riki@uoregon.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://ofn.uoregon.edu/">http://ofn.uoregon.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://bit.ly/OFNArtistRoster">OREGON CULTURE KEEPERS ROSTER</a> is an online, juried selection of excellent folk and traditional artists and cultural experts documented through our regional surveys and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship
Program (TAAP). Those included preserve and present Oregon’s diverse heritage for a variety of audiences.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Donate now! <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mhmyf7w"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#224234">Oregon Folklife Network Fund</span></b></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://eepurl.com/EKUMn">Sign up for the OFN Newsletter</a> to learn about all of our programs and offerings!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#1F497D">“We're not only teachers of our ways but we also live by the teachings which were passed down.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#1F497D">Roberta J. Kirk, Warm Springs Geo Visions - Cultural Resources and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#1F497D">OFN Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Master Artist</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The OFN is administered by the University of Oregon and is supported in part by grants from the <br>
Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Historical Society, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">and the National Endowment for the Arts. </span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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