Panelists
2015 Folk and Traditional Arts Fellowship
October 2, 2014
1:00 PM - to conclusion
Teleconference (How to participate)
Chair: Sandy Shaughnessy
Program Manager: Morgan Lewis
Mark Brown
Frankfort, Kentucky
- Program Director, Folk and Traditional Arts, Kentucky Arts Council
- Former Folklife Specialist for the Kentucky Folklife Program
- Experiences include managing folk arts grant programs, Community Scholars, fieldwork, archives, traveling exhibitions, published articles and reviews, festivals, and other public events
- M.A., Folk Studies, Western Kentucky University
Keith Cartwright
Duval County
- Professor of English, University of North Florida
- Board Member, Stetson Kennedy Foundation and member of the Florida Folklife Council
- Previous faculty appointments at Roanoke College, College of the Bahamas, College of Coastal Georgia, and Selma University
- Research interests include African Diaspora, Hemispheric (American), and Atlantic literary and cultural history
- Published works include Reading Africa into American Literature, Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateway: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-Creole Authority, two books of poetry, and numerous articles in the US, UK, and Caribbean
- Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Indiana University; M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Arkansas; and B.A. in English, University of the South
Kristin Congdon
Orange County
- Professor of Film and Humanities at the University of Central Florida (UCF), Director of the UCF Cultural Heritage Alliance, and Senior Editor of Studies in Art Education
- Author of Happy Clouds, Happy Trees: The Bob Ross Phenomenon
- Former president of both the Florida Folklore Society and National Art Education Association's Women's Caucus
- Former Florida Folklife Council member, and World Congress Member for the International Society for Education Through Art
- Recently published books include Artists from Latin American Cultures and 20th Century United States Photographers, Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art, Community Art in Action, and Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales
- Extensive published research on the study of folk arts, contemporary multi-cultural studies, feminist criticism and community arts
- 1988 and 1999 recipient of the Manual Barkan Memorial Award from the National Art Education Association, and the 1998 Ziegfeld Award from the United States Society for Education Through Art
- Ph.D. in Art Education, University of Oregon
Gregory Hansen
Jonesboro, Arkansas
- Professor, Folklore and English, and faculty in Heritage Studies Doctoral Program, Arkansas State University
- Former public folklorist for Florida Folklife Program
- Research and writing on folk music, narratives, public folklore, and folklore and education
- Research presentations at international, national, and regional conferences, and publications in various books, journals, and other media
- Ph.D., Folklore, Indiana University; M.A., Folk Studies, Western Kentucky University; B.A., Communication Studies with non-major option in Folklore, Pennsylvania State University
Michael Knoll
Miami-Dade County
- Vice President of Curatorial Affairs, HistoryMiami, overseeing museum exhibitions and the South Florida Folklife Center
- Formerly served as HistoryMiami’s Folklorist
- Worked with the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage on various projects, including festivals
- Previously managed the archive, artifact collection, and oral history program at the Jewish Museum of Florida
- Exhibition work at HistoryMiami has included Black Crossroads: The African Diaspora in Miami, Crime in Miami, The Guayabera: A Shirt’s Story, and Some Like It Hot, a street art exhibition
- M.A. in Folklore, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill