Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

9/1/1981 - 6/30/1985

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$55,000.00 (approved)
$14,978.00 (awarded)


Southern Folk Arts

FAIN: RS-*2234-81

University of Mississippi (University, MS 38677-1848)
Maude S. Wahlman (Project Director: March 1981 to October 1990)

To support documentation, analysis and interpretation of Southern folk arts, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and the decorative arts, to document folk arts as preservers of religious ideals, ethnic traditions, regional values, and aesthetic choices.