Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

7/1/1972 - 8/31/1973

Funding Totals

$17,349.00 (approved)
$17,349.00 (awarded)


Nation-Wide Sampling of American Folk and Naive Arts

FAIN: RO-11077-72

SUNY Research Foundation, College at Oneonta (Oneonta, NY 13820-2685)
Louis C Jones (Project Director: July 1972 to present)

To support a year-long sampling of small historical societies, local museums, antique shop and especially private homes across the nation for examples of American Folk Art (naive and primitive), to discover unknown pieces of merit, contemporary practitioners and forms and techniques which have been neglected.