Every year the US National Endowment for the Arts presents its National Heritage Fellowship to America's best practitioners of time-honoured crafts and arts. The volumes celebrate the lives and achievements of every winner of the National Heritage Fellowship since 1981, which constitutes well over 200 profiles of the nation's finest traditional artists. These individuals have dedicated their lives to fiddling and blues music, blacksmithing and the Japanese tea ceremony, weaving and embroidery, Native American basketry and beadwork.
Alan Govenar, PhD, is founder and president of Documentary Arts and is a writer, folklorist, filmmaker, and photographer.
Author: Alan Govenar
Format: Hardback, 754 pages
Published: 2001, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States
Genre: The Arts: General & Reference
Interest Age: From 12 years
Every year the US National Endowment for the Arts presents its National Heritage Fellowship to America's best practitioners of time-honoured crafts and arts. The volumes celebrate the lives and achievements of every winner of the National Heritage Fellowship since 1981, which constitutes well over 200 profiles of the nation's finest traditional artists. These individuals have dedicated their lives to fiddling and blues music, blacksmithing and the Japanese tea ceremony, weaving and embroidery, Native American basketry and beadwork.
Alan Govenar, PhD, is founder and president of Documentary Arts and is a writer, folklorist, filmmaker, and photographer.