Folklife Apprenticeship Celebration at the Taubman Museum of Art

110 Salem Avenue Southeast,Roanoke VA 24011

25 May, 2023

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The Virginia Folklife Program is celebrating four teams of artists from the greater Roanoke region who received an Apprenticeship Award in 2022 to advance their practice of a Virginia cultural tradition! Join us for a reception, film screening, and onstage celebration. The following artists will be honored during this event: Daniel Smith (Lynchburg) and Richard Maxham (Alexandria), violin makers; Bernadette Lark and Alanjha Harris of Roanoke, who have been practicing Gullah Geechee-style gospel singing; Elizabeth LaPrelle (Smyth County) and Elsa Howell (Roanoke), Appalachian ballad singers; and Betty Vornbrock (Carroll County) and Sharon Andreucci (Galax), who have been playing old time fiddle, especially repertoire played by women fiddlers of the region. 5:30pm: Reception Enjoy complimentary light refreshments and a display of instruments built and repaired by Daniel Smith and Richard Maxham 6pm: Film Screening Step inside the workshops, practice rooms, and studios of Apprenticeship Artists to learn more about these cultural traditions and the communities that sustain them 7pm: Apprenticeship Celebration We will welcome each team onto the stage to celebrate their work together About Since its launch in 2002, Virginia Folklife’s Apprenticeship Program has served 142 two-or-more person teams of mentor artists and their apprentices, granting funding to encourage the continuation of living traditions and a public platform to share their work. The program is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, with additional support provided by the J & E Berkley Foundation. About the Virginia Folklife Program of Virginia Humanities.