Panelists
2017-2018 Traditional Arts
September 12, 2016
9:00 AM - to conclusion
Teleconference (How to participate)
Chair: Glenn Lochrie
Program Manager: Michelle Smith Grindberg
County
Bio not yet available.
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
Shelly Drummond
Polk County
- Consultant / Folklorist, Plant City, Florida
- Formerly Curator of Education and Programs, Polk County History Center
- Formerly the Folklorist and Director of Programs at Tuckerton Seaport
- Worked with the Maryland Traditions team as the Folklorist for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and as a member of the Breene M. Kerr Center for Chesapeake Studies
- Served on the Board of Directors for the ‘Stories of the Bay’ Heritage Area and is currently working to revitalize Plant City Main Street.
- B.G.S., focus on Historical Archaeology, Virginia Commonwealth University M.A., Folk Studies and Historic Preservation, Western Kentucky University
Annette B. Fromm
Miami-Dade County
- Scholar, Miami, Florida
- Former Coordinator/Assistant Professor, Museum Studies, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
- Immediate Past-President of the International Committee of Museums of Ethnography (ICME) and Vice-Chair of the Florida Folklife Council
- Author of “We Are Few, Folklore and Ethnic Identity of the Jewish Community of Ioannina, Greece, Published by Lexington Books, 2008
- Annette has published articles on immigrant-ethnic groups in America, Jews in Greece, Greek folklore, Native Americans in museums, multicultural museums, and folk art
- Previous experience includes work in museums in Ohio, Oklahoma and Florida; and consultations for museums within the US and oversees and conducted extensive field research in ethnic communities across the United States and in Greece
- Taught numerous workshops on folklore and Folklife, American ethnicity, oral history and museum issues
- B.A., African Studies and Textiles, Kent State University; Ph.D. in Folklore with minors in Art History and Anthropology, Indiana University
Virginia Siegel
Bowling Green, Kentucky
- Folklife Specialist, Kentucky Folklife Program, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky
- Experience in museum, archive, and preservation non-profit settings.
- AmeriCorps alumnus, having served for two years in a program dedicated to low-income housing repair
- Board member, City of Bowling Green’s Historic Preservation Board; and a member of Rotary International
- BFA, Historic Preservation with a minor in Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design; MA, Folk Studies, Western Kentucky University
Craig Stinson
Wilmington, North Carolina
- Former Director of Folklife & Traditional Arts, South Carolina Arts Commission
- Previously Marketing & Development Manager; The Alamo Historic Site; Development Director, Institute of Texan Cultures, University of Texas San Antonio
- Previously worked with: Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Arts Administration Fellow at National Endowment for the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Council, Wisconsin Arts Board, Prints & Photographs Division of Library of Congress
- Grant Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, Georgia Council for the Arts
- B.A., History/Folklore, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Graduate work towards M.A., American Studies, Folklore, George Washington University
Christopher Witulski
Bowling Green, Ohio
- Specialized Teaching Faculty, College of Music, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
- Ethnomusicologist whose research focuses on issues of commodification and change in Morocco’s sacred music scenes, American popular music, and old time music
- Writing appears in Ethnomusicology Forum, The Journal for North African Studies, The International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and the Yale Journal for Music and Religion (forthcoming)
- Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida