Iowa Arts Council Folk Arts Program Records, 1976-2006
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Collection Summary

Title: Iowa Arts Council Folk Arts Program Records
Dates: 1976-2006

Creator:
  • Iowa Arts Council
Unique Identifier: CSUMC0032-CG

Contents: Iowa Arts Council: approximately 35 boxes containing manuscript materials, sound recordings, 35 mm color slides, color and black-and-white photographs, videocassettes, and computer diskettes; State Historical Society of Iowa Museum Division: 6 file drawers containing manuscript materials, audiocassettes, 35 mm color slides, black-and-white negatives, contact sheets, and photographs.

Publisher:
Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
432 East Campus Mall, Room 332
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
608-262-8180
Web site: http://csumc.wisc.edu

Archival Locations:
Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (Map)
State Archives of Iowa (Map)

Summary:
These records represent the productive and varied work that has characterized the state folk arts program at the Iowa Arts Council for more than two decades. Collections include administrative files and ethnographic documentation for numerous projects, programs, and productions, including folk arts apprenticeships, folk arts in education outreach, folklife programming technical assistance, exhibits, folklife festivals, and folk arts tours. Ethnographic materials and productions represent the work of more than 60 folklorists and community scholars, and hundreds of folk artists of diverse indigenous, old and new immigrant ethnic backgrounds that range from North and South America, to Africa, southeast Asia, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Europe. Practices documented include varied musical, dance, needlework, metalworking, and woodworking traditions, beadwork and fingerweaving, foodways and egg decorating, and occupational traditions like fishing and net making, farming and animal husbandry, fire fighting, trucking, auctioneering and insurance sales, and more. Spiritual sites, ethnic markets, restaurants, and community organizations have also received attention. Key productions include seminal folk arts exhibits and exhibit catalogs, national, multi-state, and state folklife festivals, multi-state folk arts tours, a variety of ethnic tours in the state, an Iowa Folklife Directory and database, and an education guide, Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities, and Traditions.

Language: The records are in English.

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-csumc-csumc0032cg

Collection Concordance by Format
Note

These are rough approximations of formats and quantities.


Quantity Physical Description Location
Manuscript Materials
approximately 6 file drawers containing administrative files, artist contact files, artist resource inventory; photo and tape logs, interview transcripts State Historical Society of Iowa Museum
Iowa Arts Council
publications, manuscripts General Files
administrative files Iowa Folklife Festivals
fieldwork files Iowa Folklife Festivals
slide, tape, photo logs Iowa Folklife Festivals
directory documentation Iowa Folklife Directory
administrative files Networking and Mentoring
fieldwork files African American Tour
documents Ethnic Tours
administrative files Iowa Folklife Institutes
administrative and fieldwork files Iowa Traditions in Transition
files ITT: Muscatine High School Fieldwork
administrative files, news clippings Cultural Crossroads Festival
administrative files Global Sounds, Heartland Beats
administrative and fieldwork files Missouri River Folklife Project
administrative files Tri-State Festivals
Sound Recordings
25 audiocassettes State Historical Society of Iowa Museum
1 mini-cassette State Historical Society of Iowa Museum
Iowa Arts Council
10-inch reel-to-reel tapes Avoca Folk Festival
audiocassettes General Files
48 audiocassettes Cultural Heritage Program
281 audiocassettes Iowa Folklife Festivals
11 audiocassettes African American Tour
audiocassettes Ethnic Tours
80+ audiocassettes Iowa Traditions in Transition
audiocassettes ITT: Muscatine High School Fieldwork
audiocassettes Cultural Crossroads Festival
62 DATs Cultural Heritage Program
24 DATs Iowa Folklife Festivals
Graphic Materials
color and black-and-white photos State Historical Society of Iowa Museum
3 binders of black-and-white contact sheets State Historical Society of Iowa Museum
binders/metal boxes of color slides State Historical Society of Iowa Museum
Iowa Arts Council
61 negatives Cultural Heritage Program
22 color photographs Cultural Heritage Program
photographs Iowa Folklife Festivals
8 black-and-white photographs African American Tour
photographs Ethnic Tours
photographs ITT: Muscatine High School Fieldwork
slides Ethnic Tours
4 binders of 35 mm color slides Iowa Traditions in Transition
1 VHS videocassette Cultural Heritage Program
32 videocassettes Iowa Folklife Festivals
Electronic Media
Iowa Arts Council
3 diskettes African American Tour
diskettes ITT: Muscatine High School Fieldwork

Program History

Folklorist Steve Siporin set the stage for the Iowa Arts Council Folk Arts Program during a six-month position in 1977-1978 supported by a federal CETA jobs program (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act). During his tenure, he prepared “A Brief Guide to Collecting Folklore in Iowa,” documented Italian-Americans in Central Iowa, and introduced workshops to help local groups develop their own folklore projects. One workshop inspired a Fort Dodge high school journalism class to publish a collection of oral histories and folklore especially related to a memorable tornado. Siporin returned as a consultant to the Iowa Arts Council for a few months in 1979. With Gordon Kellenberger, he worked on a project in the Amana Colonies that involved workshops, cultural landscape preservation planning, and ultimately, several years later, a “Culture and the Environment: The Legacy of the Amana Colonies” conference sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Iowa Arts Council's Folk Arts Program began in February 1982 with the hire of folklorist Steve Ohrn. Ohrn established the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, and initiated several documentary projects. His first survey of traditional artists across Iowa resulted in the “Passing Time and Traditions” exhibit that opened in the State Capitol rotunda, toured the state, and was accompanied by the exhibit catalog, Passing Time and Traditions. In the mid-1980s, Ohrn and Amana Arts Guild founding member Gordon Kellenberger documented traditional artists from the Amana Colonies. Using the interviews and objects borrowed from more than 100 Amana residents, Ohrn mounted a 5,000-plus-square-foot exhibit at the State Historical Society of Iowa and produced an accompanying catalog, Remaining Faithful: Amana Traditions in Transition. Ohrn's last project as state folklorist was “Folk Arts on the Freeway,” a rest-stop exhibit he produced with Kellenberger. In 1987, Ohrn moved from the Arts Council to the State Historical Society of Iowa Museum Division, where he continued to incorporate folk arts into his work until his retirement in 2003.

David Brose replaced Ohrn as state folklorist in 1987 and served until 1992, emphasizing programming and documentation related to traditional music in Iowa.

In 1995, folklorist Rachelle H. (“Riki”) Saltzman assumed the position, greatly expanding the program's folk arts focus and outreach. Through 2008, Saltzman has coordinated about a dozen grant-funded projects that have required fieldwork and generated documentary collections. Her largest endeavor was the massive field survey leading up to the Iowa program of the 1996 Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife and its restaging in Des Moines later that summer. This effort provided foundations for the 1997 Iowa Folklife Directory and database and the 1997 folk arts education guide, Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities, and Traditions. National Endowment for the Arts Network and Mentoring funding, 1997-2000, supported a series of Folklife Institutes, technical assistance to develop folklife programming at Iowa Tourism and Diversity conferences, and a series of ethnic community surveys and tours. Another multi-year project, “Iowa Traditions in Transition,” 1998-2000, enabled folk arts surveys of Iowa's newest refugee and immigrant populations, training of community scholars, and community collaboration that resulted in cultural programming and projects. Since 1998, the Iowa Arts Council's Folk Arts Program also supported several multi-state projects including the “Global Sounds, Heartland Beats” tour in seven Midwestern states, the “Missouri River Folklife Survey,” and numerous tri-state folklife festivals involving Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The Program's varied projects are described more fully in the Scope and Content Note section.

Scope and Content Note

The records described here represent the Folk Arts Program's general operations as well as many of the documentary projects sponsored by it. Projects for which records are available are described in chronological order from the oldest to the most recently completed. Most are in the possession of the Iowa Arts Council until the State Historical Society of Iowa Archives, to which they have been officially transferred, can accommodate them for further processing.

I. General Files, 1976-1994

The Program's earliest materials moved with Steve Ohrn when he took a position with the State Historical Society of Iowa Museum in 1987. Now stored in six file drawers at the Museum, they include: color and black-and-white photographs in folders labeled “Hmong Kohler [Arts Center in Wisconsin] exhibit,” “Passing Time and Traditions,” and “Remaining Faithful (Amana)”; three binders of black-and-white contact sheets from 1982 to 1984, labeled by year; color slides arranged alphabetically by artist in metal boxes and binders; photo and tape logs for most of the project-based material; and 25 sound recording cassettes and one mini-cassette, along with interview transcripts from the Amana project. Administrative files include grant narratives, budgets, correspondence, and notes related to the Amana project. Three card files contain artist contact information, and binders contain an artist resource inventory along with the contact sheets. A rough inventory of this collection is available at the Museum.

In the records housed at the Iowa Arts Council and slated for storage at the State Historical Society of Iowa Archives, a few general files date from 1976 to 1994 and contain publications, Steve Siporin's “A Brief Guide to Collecting Folklore in Iowa” manuscript, and a box of Steve Ohrn's sound recording cassettes of interviews with Iowa folk artists. These materials are listed in more detail in the inventory section of this collection guide.

II. 1984-1987: Avoca Folk Festival

The Avoca Folk Festival documentation includes reel-to-reel sound recordings of a variety of traditional, especially Old Time, musicians made by folklorist David Brose in 1987, as well as by folklorist Philip Nusbaum, 1984-1987, while employed at Cedar Falls, Iowa radio station KUNI.

III. 1987-1990: Cultural Heritage Program

This material includes sound recordings and images from David Brose's fieldwork, tapes for a prospective folk music radio show, and a video labeled “First Midwest Talent Search.”

IV. 1995-1996: Iowa Sesquicentennial Folklife Festival and Festival of Iowa Folklife

This largest portion of the Program's records measures roughly 18 c.f., and documents both pre-festival and festival fieldwork conducted for the 1996 Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife. The “Iowa--Community Style” Program was held in Washington, D.C., June 26-30 and July 3-7, and restaged in Des Moines, August 22-25. Subseries of project records include: administrative files, research and fieldwork manuscript files, sound recordings from field research and the Festival of Iowa Folklife, and graphic images and video recordings from 1995 and 1996 festival research. This collection contains original versions of documentation for the Iowa staging of the festival (color slides, black-and-white negatives and contact sheets, and sound recordings of stage presentations), and except for Saltzman's originals, only copies of the Smithsonian's pre-festival and festival documentation (audio, video, and some color slide and black-and-white contact sheets). Most of the original pre-festival and festival fieldwork documentation is housed at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections.

More than 60 fieldworkers documented Iowa traditions, including: African-American gospel, Mennonite gospel, Meskwaki flute music, Mexican ballad-singing, and Old-Time string band music; Meskwaki, Italian-American, Czech-American, and German-American dance and dance-band traditions; auctioneer and square dance calling; Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Jewish, Hmong, Laotian, Greek, Czech, Meskwaki, Mexican, and Amana foodways; quilting, rug crocheting, Hmong story cloth embroidery and appliqué, quinceañera dollmaking, Meskwaki beadwork and fingerweaving, and Czech egg decorating; decoy and figure carving, and decorative scroll saw work; tinsmithing, ornamental wrought iron working, tool and die making, and industrial pattern making at John Deere; and commercial fishing and net making, towboat piloting, cattle and hog raising, row crop farming, volunteer fire fighting, trucking, and insurance sales techniques.

Iowa Folklife Festival Coordinator Rachelle Saltzman, funded by 1995-1997 National Endowment for the Arts grants to the Iowa Arts Council, co-curated the Festival of Iowa Folklife and the Iowa portion of the Festival of American Folklife with Catherine Hiebert Kerst. They organized Iowa program festival catalog articles and prepared exhibit labels for festival signage. Saltzman also supervised the production of an Iowa Folklife Festival cookbook, Iowa Cooking--Community Style, edited by Catherine Hiebert Kerst and Beverly Simons. She scheduled 135 participants for the 10 days of the Smithsonian festival, over 300 participants for the Iowa event, and 15 presenters, into 7 to 8 sessions per day for each festival. Attendance at the Festival of American Folklife was 1.2 million and at the Festival of Iowa Folklife, over 80,000.

Subseries for this portion of the collection include administrative files, research and fieldwork manuscript files, sound recordings, and graphic images and videotapes.

V. 1997: Iowa Folklife Directory

Supported by a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program and administered by the Fund for Folk Culture, the Iowa Folklife Resource Directory grew from the Sesquicentennial Folklife Survey and the existing Arts Council folklife database. Indexed by individual, group, ethnicity, and county, it listed 274 traditional practitioners; ethnic museums and cultural organizations; and researchers and consultants. Project records include all response forms from those in the directory, which provide such information as names, contact information, genres, ethnicity, and art forms.

Copies of the Directory were distributed to the individuals, groups, and organizations identified as well as to schools, libraries, museums, the media, booking agencies, the Iowa Humanities Council, regional and county arts councils, Division of Tourism sites, and individuals who requested the guide. It was also included in the folklife curriculum kit, Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities, and Traditions published in 1997. The Iowa Arts Council's database continues to be updated and information made available for online rosters and directories, to enable diverse organizations to identify folk artists for folklife programming, education, festivals, workshops, community arts forums, and occupational training. The folk and traditional arts roster may be found through the Iowa Arts Council website: http://www.iowaartscouncil.org.

VI. 1997-2000: National Endowment for the Arts Network and Mentoring

Aimed at linking Iowa's traditional artists, ethnic museums and associations, and community scholars, this National Endowment for the Arts-funded project provided technical assistance to organizations planning to present folk artists and explore folklife topics. It resulted in the formation of the Iowa Ethnic Heritage Association to promote a variety of like-minded programs and a network among cultural heritage associations, folk artists, and community scholars.

Two Iowa Folklife Institutes showcased folk artists at Tourism and Diversity conferences, provided Folk Arts in Education [FAIE] activities for teachers, trained teachers and community scholars in folklife documentation and presentation, and advised artists regarding marketing and public relations. The project also provided seed funding and technical assistance for presenting folk arts at a range of venues, including local arts agencies, the state English as a Second Language conference, the state diversity conference, the state tourism conference, an annual African-American cultural event, and ethnic association events. Records subseries include: administrative files; the African-American Summer Internship and Community Tour in 1998; the 1997 Ethnic Tours project; the 1997-2001 Iowa Folklife institutes; and Tourism and Diversity conferences.

A. Administrative Files : These records include the grant proposal and supporting documents.

B. African American Summer Internship and Community Tour, 1998 : The Network project funded a folklife intern to document African American traditions in Des Moines, and offered a community tour based on that fieldwork. The tour featured a gospel choir, traditional foodways, and community organizations. Project records include administrative materials, field documentation by Sophia Douglas regarding a dozen sites, and sound recordings of ten key people associated with them.

C. Ethnic Tours, 1997 : Project records include sound recording cassettes, black-and-white photography and color slides, field notes, sound recording and photo logs, data forms, and release forms. With American Folklore Society Internship support, this project funded fieldwork by folklorist Erin Roth in Des Moines' Italian, Southeast Asian, and Latino neighborhoods that played a critical role in the settlement of each group in Iowa and continue to provide cultural continuity for community members. Community members helped develop three-hour tours of the significant occupational and spiritual sites, restaurants, and ethnic markets for each of the groups involved.

D. Iowa Folklife Institutes, 1997-2001 : Records include administrative and programming information for this series of folklife educational workshops and conferences that were held as independent events in conjunction with Iowa Heritage Expo, and in collaboration with the 2001 Festival of Iowa Folklife in Waterloo. Funding was provided over the years by the NEA Networking and Mentoring grant, the NEA and Fund for Folk Culture “Iowa Traditions in Transition” grants, and via a national partnership with Cultural Arts for Teachers and Students (CARTS) and New York's City Lore.

E. Tourism and Diversity Conferences : Records include administrative files, program information, and tour information. An NEA folk arts grant provided funding and technical assistance to support folklife programming, and ethnic neighborhood tour programming information, at the Iowa Tourism and Diversity Conferences from 1997 to 1999.

VII. 1998-2000: Iowa Traditions in Transition (ITT)

Records subseries include: administrative files, fieldwork files, fieldwork sound recordings and photographs, public programs, Saltzman's research files and sound recordings, and the 1999 Muscatine High School ESL class's field documentation.

Funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fund for Folk Culture, the Iowa Traditions in Transition project surveyed the folklife of Iowa's refugee and immigrant communities and presented those traditions in public programs in libraries in the areas where most newcomers reside: Sioux City, Storm Lake, Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Marshalltown-Tama-Toledo, Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, West Branch and West Liberty near Iowa City, and Davenport-Muscatine. Four contract folklorists (Erin Roth, Bill Lockwood, Tim Evans, and Cindy Kerchmar) worked in these communities to survey and document folk and traditional art forms of refugees and immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Bosnia, Somalia, Iraq, and the Sudan.

Project Director Saltzman and the contract folklorists worked closely with ESL teachers (one of the points of continued American contact for new refugees), librarians, and community scholars to conduct this survey. With the help of Iowa Bureau of Refugee Services staff (many of whom are refugees and immigrants from the designated groups) and ESL teachers, Saltzman identified and prepared community scholars for work as apprentice fieldworkers in collaboration with the contract folklorists.

Saltzman and, later, folklorist and IAC folklife programmer Karen Heege then worked with community scholars, librarians, and other consultants to organize culturally appropriate programming and projects within their communities. Performances and demonstrations held in Sioux City, Storm Lake, Des Moines, Marshalltown, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, West Liberty, Davenport, and elsewhere featured traditions such as Iraqi oud making and playing, Guatemalan pupusa making and eating, Bosnian weaving and lace crocheting, Vietnamese dragon dancing, Nuer hair braiding, Mexican matachines dancing, and Lao storytelling.

VIII. 2001: Festival of Iowa Folklife: Cultural Crossroads

Records include administrative files, sound recording cassettes of performances, and newsclippings. Held in Waterloo, Iowa, this event featured 150 traditional artists from a variety of Iowa's cultural groups, ranging from long-time residents to newer refugees. It included a special children's area and children's day performances, and an educators' institute with educational materials. This event overlapped with the Folklife Institute (see above) and the Upper Midwest Traditional Arts Touring Project: Global Sounds, Heartland Beats (see Series IX: Subseries A).

IX. 2000-2004: Multi-State Projects in the Midwest

A. Upper Midwest Traditional Arts Touring Project: Global Sounds, Heartland Beats (1998-2001) : Records include administrative files, artist biographies and promotional kits, and information about various presenting venues. Iowa took the lead in this collaboration between Arts Midwest (Regional Arts Organization [RAO]) and seven Midwestern states (Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin). Folklorist Riki Saltzman wrote grants and coordinated the project from the beginning, until Arts Midwest took on a more comprehensive administrative role, first with Vickie Hutter and then with Ken Carlson. Originally proposed as a three-year Midwest Folk Arts Festival Tour involving nine states and 50 artists, National Endowment for the Arts funding could only support the involvement of seven states and fourteen performing artist groups and individuals. Seven performers did the run-outs to seven states over one year with the seven alternates sometimes filling in. All fourteen entities as well as the fourteen presenting sites received training at two Midwest Booking Conferences; this part of the project was linked to a national project spearheaded by the Southern Arts Federation (RAO for that region of the U.S.). Ongoing annual gatherings of Upper Midwest folklorists have resulted, sometimes meeting with Mid America Arts Alliance (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas) and Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF).

B. Missouri River Folklife Project--Survey and Grants : Records include administrative papers, grant proposals, meeting notes, and some fieldwork files. Spearheaded by the University of Missouri folk arts program, this project involved states along the Missouri River, from Montana to Missouri (Kansas dropped out after early involvement). Sandy Rikoon wrote the first National Endowment for the Arts grant, which funded preliminary research into Missouri River traditions and ethnic groups. A second year of funding was proposed but not approved. Iowa Arts Council took the lead in applying to a National Park Service special grant program in honor of the Lewis and Clark Expedition for a multi-state traveling exhibit and series of folk arts programs. The group received an award for partial funding, but declined the grant because it was too little.

C. Tri-State Festivals, 2000-2004 : Records include administrative files, grant proposals, schedules, and meeting notes. Funded in part by an NEA grant submitted by the Minnesota Arts Board, these folklife festivals involved Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota and focused on multicultural dance and related music traditions.

X. 2006: Iowa Folklife Education Guide: Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities, and Traditions. Online at: http://www.uni.edu/iowaonline/folklife/intro/index.htm

Collection records consist of the learning guide, which attempts to extend the reach of the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife, the Iowa Folklife Festival, and project materials to the next generation of Iowans. It encourages young people to know about, understand, and find their own connections to cultural traditions nurtured in the state by previous generations. Contents include:

  • Lesson plans for teachers, arranged in sections by subject matter, that state objectives, present background information, describe conceptual and hands-on activities, and provide handouts. Adaptations for middle/junior and high school levels are suggested.
  • An Iowa Folk and Traditional Arts Roster produced by the Iowa Arts Council that lists musicians, folk artists, and cultural specialists available for classroom, senior center, library, and museum programming.
  • Iowa Roots that features stories, music, and talk with traditional artists from a variety of ethnic, geographic, occupational, and religious groups found in Iowa.
  • Two videotapes for classroom viewing to supplement lessons:
    • Iowa Folks and Folklife is a 56-minute documentary about the festivals and a sampler of Iowa traditions, produced and broadcast by Iowa Public Television.
    • Profiles consists of four segments on aspects of Iowa's cultural traditions and includes footage from the festivals in Washington, D.C., and Des Moines, from RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa), Decorah's Nordic Fest, and the Sidney Rodeo, and on location in Dubuque, Villisca, Plainfield, and Waterloo.
  • Iowa State Fare: Music from the Heartland, a compact disc (CD) produced by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings that features nine Iowa groups performing gospel, blues, country, polka, string music, quartet singing, Meskwaki songs, Latino corridos, or Scandinavian music.
  • Inherit Iowa, a senior citizen center activity guide.
Related Materials

Amana Arts Guild “Remaining Faithful” Collection. Amana, Iowa (described in Amana Arts Guild Folk Arts Documentation Project Collections; collection guide forthcoming)

Smithsonian Folklife Festival Collection. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Washington, D.C., online at: http://www.folklife.si.edu/archives_resources/about.aspx

Productions

Kerst, Catherine Hiebert, and Beverly Simons, eds. Iowa Cooking--Community Style. Des Moines: Iowa Sesquicentennial Commission. 1996.

Ohrn, Steven G., ed. Passing Time and Traditions: Contemporary Folk Artists. Ames: Iowa State University Press for the Iowa Arts Council. 1984.

Ohrn, Steven G. Remaining Faithful: Amana Arts in Transition. Des Moines: Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. 1988.

Saltzman, Rachelle H. and Catherine Hiebert Kerst, eds. Festival of Iowa Folklife: A Sesquicentennial Celebration! Des Moines: Iowa Sesquicentennial Commission. 1996.

Saltzman, Rachelle H. and Catherine Hiebert Kerst, eds. “Iowa--Community Style.” In Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife 1996. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 1996.

Saltzman, Rachelle H., ed. Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities, and Traditions. A learning guide for teachers, students, and senior citizens. Washington, D.C., and Des Moines, Iowa: Smithsonian Institution and Iowa Sesquicentennial Commission, 1997. Rev. ed. Des Moines: Iowa Arts Council, 2006, online at: http://www.uni.edu/iowaonline/folklife/intro/index.htm

Siporin, Steve. “Emphasis: Ordinary People,” Iowa Art News [Iowa Arts Council newsletter] 10:6 (November/December 1977): 3.

Key Subjects
Groups (Ethnic, National, Cultural, Religious, etc.)

  • African-Americans
  • American Indians
  • Amish
  • Asian Americans
  • Bosnian Americans
  • British Americans
  • Cambodian Americans
  • Chinese Americans
  • Colombian Americans
  • Croatian Americans
  • Crow Indians
  • Cuban Americans
  • Czech Americans
  • Dakota Indians
  • Danish Americans
  • Dutch Americans
  • East Indians
  • European Americans
  • Filipino Americans
  • French Americans
  • Frisian Americans
  • German Americans
  • Greek Americans
  • Guatemalan Americans
  • Hispanic Americans
  • Hmong Americans
  • Iraqi Americans
  • Irish Americans
  • Israeli Americans
  • Italian Americans
  • Japanese Americans
  • Jewish Americans
  • Korean Americans
  • Lakota Indians
  • Laotian Americans
  • Lebanese Americans
  • Mabon (African people)
  • Mennonites
  • Meskwaki Indians
  • Mesquaki Indians
  • Mexican Americans
  • Middle Eastern Americans
  • Navajo Indians
  • Nicaraguan Americans
  • Nigerian Americans
  • Norwegian Americans
  • Nuer (African people)
  • Pakistani Americans
  • Palestinian Americans
  • Puerto Ricans
  • Russian Americans
  • Salvadoran Americans
  • Scandinavian Americans
  • Scottish Americans
  • Shilluk (African people)
  • Sioux Indians
  • Slovak Americans
  • Somali Americans
  • Sudanese Americans
  • Swedish Americans
  • Swiss Americans
  • Tai Dam Americans
  • Thai Americans
  • Utopians
  • Vietnamese Americans
Locations

  • Amana (Iowa)
  • Avoca (Iowa)
  • Cedar Falls (Iowa)
  • Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
  • Council Bluffs (Iowa)
  • Davenport (Iowa)
  • Decorah (Iowa)
  • Des Moines (Iowa)
  • Dubuque (Iowa)
  • Marshalltown (Iowa)
  • Muscatine (Iowa)
  • Plainfield (Iowa)
  • Sidney (Iowa)
  • Sioux City (Iowa)
  • Storm Lake (Iowa)
  • Tama (Iowa)
  • Villisca (Iowa)
  • Waterloo (Iowa)
  • West Branch (Iowa)
  • West Liberty (Iowa)
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • South Dakota
  • Wisconsin
  • Middle West
Organizations

  • Amana Arts Guild
  • Arts Midwest (Organization: Minneapolis, Minn.)
  • Iowa Bureau of Refugee Services
  • Iowa Ethnic Heritage Association
  • State Historical Society of Iowa
Subjects

  • African American gospel singers
  • Agriculture
  • Artificial flowers
  • Auctioneers
  • Ballads, Mexican
  • Banda (Music)
  • Basket making
  • Blacksmithing
  • Bluegrass music
  • Blues (Music)
  • Braids (Hairdressing)
  • Butchers
  • Cabinetmaking
  • Calligraphy
  • Cantors (Church music)
  • Carpentry
  • Commercial fishing industry
  • Conjunto music
  • Cookery, Amana
  • Cookery, Czech
  • Cookery, Danish
  • Cookery, Dutch
  • Cookery, Greek
  • Cookery, Guatemalan
  • Cookery, Hmong
  • Cookery, Lao
  • Cookery, Meskwaki
  • Cookery, Mexican
  • Cookery, Norwegian
  • Country music
  • Crocheting
  • Cruising
  • Decorative painting
  • Decoys (Hunting)
  • Dollmaking
  • Egg decoration
  • Embroidery
  • Ethnic costume
  • Fingerweaving
  • Fishing nets
  • Flower arranging
  • Folk dancing, German
  • Folk dancing, Czech
  • Folk dancing, Italian
  • Folk dancing, Latin American
  • Food habits
  • Food traditions
  • Foodways
  • Fretwork
  • Gospel music
  • Grocery trade
  • Hip hop
  • Horses--Training
  • Indian dance
  • Insurance sales
  • Jewish cookery
  • Knitting
  • Lace and lace making
  • Mariachi
  • Matachines (Dance)
  • Meat packers
  • Mennonite gospel
  • Meskwaki beadwork
  • Meskwaki dance
  • Meskwaki flute music
  • Meskwaki food traditions
  • Meskwaki song
  • Metal-work
  • Miniatures
  • Musical instruments--Construction
  • Needlework
  • Needlework, Hmong
  • Norteño music
  • Nuer hair braiding
  • Nursing
  • Old-time music
  • Oud
  • Paj Ntaub
  • Paper work
  • Patternmaking
  • Physicians
  • Pilots and pilotage
  • Poetry
  • Polka (Dance)
  • Preaching
  • Quilting
  • Quinceañera (Social custom)
  • Radio personalities
  • Rap (Music)
  • Restaurant--Employees
  • Rugs
  • Sacred music
  • Scandinavian music
  • Selling--Insurance
  • Shrines
  • Square dance calling
  • Square dancing
  • Story cloths
  • Storytelling
  • Swing (Music)
  • Tatting
  • Tinsmithing
  • Tool and die industry
  • Towboats
  • Toys
  • Traditional narratives
  • Trucking
  • Vietnamese dragon dancers
  • Vocal quartets
  • Volunteer fire fighters
  • Weaving
  • Wood-carving
  • Woodwork
  • Wrought-iron
  • Yard art, ornaments
Access

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Anthony Jahn, State Archivist
State Archives of Iowa
State Historical Society of Iowa
600 E. Locust St.
Des Moines, IA 50325
Email: Anthony.Jahn@iowa.gov
Phone: 515-281-4895 FAX: 515-282-0502
Web site: https://iowaculture.gov/history
State Historical Society of Iowa
State Historical Museum
600 E. Locust St.
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone: (515) 281-5111
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Collection Inventory and Description
Series: I. General Files, 1976-1994
Box   20
Folklife Audio Cassette Tapes: Documentation of folk artists by Steve Ohrn
Box   24
Folder   1
Amana Arts Guild Publications
Box   24
Folder   2
Goldfinch--Festivals
Box   24
Folder   3
Folk Arts Program--IAC [IAC News, Iowa Heritage Illustrated]
Box   24
Folder   4
Past Folklife Programs [published articles, publicity]
Box   24
Folder   5
Folk Art Site Visits--FY92
Box   24
Folder   6
Fiber Arts/Apprenticeships--MS Thesis by Criss A. Spinola, ISU, 1992
Box   24
Folder   7
Grant Info--Folklife IAC--Apprenticeship pre-'93
Box   24
Folder   8
, 1989 Cultural Heritage Celebration
Box   24
Folder   9
FAAP--Fellowship Award (Gen.), [1989-1992]
Box   24
Folder   10
, 1976 Iowa Folk Fest--photocopy of flyer
Box   24
Folder   11
“Brief Guide to Collecting Folklore in Iowa,” manuscript by Steve Siporin
Series: II. Avoca Folk Festival, 1984-1987
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Box   1-2
10-inch reel-to-reel sound recordings by David Brose, 1987
Box   32-33
Reel-to-reel sound recordings by Phil Nusbaum, 1984-1987
Series: III. Cultural Heritage Program, 1987-1990
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Box   3
Sound recordings (48 cassettes, 62 DATs)
Box   3
Audiocassette inventory
Box   3
Images (61 negatives, 22 color photographs), 1988-1989, undated
Box   3
“First Midwest Talent Search,” VHS videotape
Series: IV. Iowa Sesquicentennial Folklife Festival and Festival of Iowa Folklife, 1995-1996
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Subseries: A. Administrative files
Box   16 and 22
1. Undescribed administrative files
2. Riki Saltzman Files (Iowa Sesquicentennial Festival Curator with Catherine Hiebert Kerst)
Box   3
Folder   1
Restaging Recs from SI and Iowa folks
Box   3
Folder   2
Tents/Structures
Box   3
Folder   3
Foodways
Box   3
Folder   4
Festival stuff from elsewhere--policies, contracts
Box   3
Folder   5
FAF program review feedback
Box   3
Folder   6
FIF Iowa Tourism
[Smithsonian] Talk Story: Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies newsletter
Box   3
Folder   7
, 1995 Fall
Box   3
Folder   8
, 1996 Fall
Box   3
Folder   9
, 1996 Spring
Box   3
Folder   10
FIF red brochures
Box   3
Folder   11
FIF green brochures
Box   3
Folder   12
Folk Arts: Sesquicentennial Project [planning guides, meeting agendas, etc.]
Box   3
Folder   13
FAF/FIF media coverage [newspaper clipping]
Box   3
Folder   14
Photographers [submitted photos]
Box   3
Folder   15
Correspondence, 1997
Box   3
Folder   16
Press releases: Saltzman, 1995
Box   3
Folder   17
Signs
Box   4
Folder   1
Copy of bid sent to vendors, Iowa Sesquicentennial
Box   4
Folder   2
Agendas/Notes general
Box   4
Folder   3
Press releases, Sesquicentennial (FAF)
Box   4
Folder   4
FAF slides [logs]
Box   4
Folder   5
[Iowa] Cafe [Stage] tape logs
Box   4
Folder   6
Community Hall [tape] logs
Box   4
Folder   7
Civic Center [tape] logs
Box   4
Folder   8
Talk Radio tape logs
Box   4
Folder   9
FIF schedules
Box   4
Folder   10
FIF photo logs--Cola (empty)
Box   4
Folder   11
FIF photo logs and release forms [release forms]
3. Jill Downing Files (Festival of Iowa Folklife Manager)
Box   17
Folder   1
Resource/Needs assessment
Box   17
Folder   2
PR/Marketing
Box   17
Folder   3
Michigan Fest [Festival of Michigan Folklife, 1995]
Box   17
Folder   4
Security Taskforce
Box   17
Folder   5
Bus tours
Box   17
Folder   6
Budget
Box   17
Folder   7
Des Moines Water Works
Box   17
Folder   8
Rental equipment/space
Box   17
Folder   9
Interior designs
Box   17
Folder   10
Porta Potties
Box   17
Folder   11
Signage
Box   17
Folder   12
Tents
Box   17
Folder   13
Audio/Visual/Walkie-talkies
Box   17
Folder   14
Lodging
Box   17
Folder   15
Entertainment
Box   17
Folder   16
Ceremonies/Parade
Box   17
Folder   17
Citywide Committee
Box   17
Folder   18
Fireworks
Box   17
Folder   19
Duties, Timelines, Assignments
Box   17
Folder   20
Handbook
Box   17
Folder   21
Participants
Box   17
Folder   22
Participant Letters
Box   17
Folder   23
Presenters
Box   17
Folder   24
Smithsonian
Box   17
Folder   25
Taylor Ball
Box   17
Folder   26
Traffic Plan
Box   17
Folder   27
Host/Reunion Tents/Honey War
Box   17
Folder   28
Entry Points
Box   17
Folder   29
Entertainment/Enhanced Program
Box   17
Folder   30
DNR
Box   17
Folder   31
Department of Corrections
Box   17
Folder   32
Capitol
Box   17
Folder   33
Site Planning
Box   17
Folder   34
Schedule
Box   17
Folder   35
Opening Ceremonies
Box   17
Folder   36
Red Cross
Box   17
T&T Research Report [unfoldered]
Subseries: B. Research and Fieldwork Manuscript Files
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1. Fieldwork Contact Sheets and Supporting Documents
Note: Inventory sheets (by fieldworker) account for what fieldwork materials are present. Most fieldwork is arranged alphabetically by fieldworker. In some cases, often when the material was contributed or gathered by more than one fieldworker, the folder is labeled and arranged by subject. Some of Saltzman's interview notes in Box 14 are labeled according to artist. In a few instances, such as in the Beth Rotto and Harry Oster folders, one will find fieldwork not gathered specifically for the festival project.
Box   13
Folder   1
Release forms FIF
Box   13
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1995 October 24-2005 January 8
Box   13
Folder   3
African American Center (Des Moines) [Ben Glispie, fieldworker]
Box   13
Folder   4
African American Center (Des Moines) [photo log/contact sheet]
Box   13
Folder   5
American Indian Center (Sioux City)
Box   13
Folder   6
Berquist [John]
Box   13
Folder   7
John Berquist Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   8
Jay Black
Box   13
Folder   9
Jay Black Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   10
Phyllis Carlin
Box   13
Folder   11
Phyllis Carlin Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   12
Casa Latina
Box   13
Folder   13
Casa Latina Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   14
Karen Downing
Box   13
Folder   15
Kristin Elmquist
Box   13
Folder   16
Kristin Elmquist Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   17
April Frantz
Box   13
Folder   18
April Frantz Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   19
Janet Gilmore
Box   13
Folder   20
Loren Horton
Box   13
Folder   21
Loren Horton Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   22
Richard Horwitz
Box   13
Folder   23
Richard Horwitz Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   24
Iowa School for the Deaf [Council Bluffs]
Box   13
Folder   25
Italian American Center [Des Moines]
Box   13
Folder   26
Italian American Center [Des Moines] Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   27
Phyllis Johnson
Box   13
Folder   28
Don Jonjack
Box   13
Folder   29
Don Jonjack Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   30
Nella Kennedy
Box   13
Folder   31
Kennedy Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   32
Mark Knudsen
Box   13
Folder   33
Mark Knudsen Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   34
Mike Koppert
Box   13
Folder   35
Mike Koppert Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   36
Lee Kline
Box   13
Folder   37
Lee Kline Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   38
Labor Institute [Fort Madison]
Box   13
Folder   39
Labor Institute [Fort Madison] Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   40
Catherine M. Lewis
Box   13
Folder   41
Jack Libbey
Box   13
Folder   42
Jack Libbey Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   43
Nancy Michael
Box   13
Folder   44
David Moore
Box   13
Folder   45
David Moore Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   46
[Jerry] Morgan and [John] DeWall
Box   13
Folder   47
[Jerry] Morgan and [John] DeWall Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   48
Jane Nielsen
Box   13
Folder   49
Jane Nielsen Photo Log
Box   13
Folder   50
Nurses
Box   14
Folder   1
Carla Offenberger (girls basketball/hoops)
Box   14
Folder   2
Harry Oster
Box   14
Folder   3
Harry Oster Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   3a
Harry Oster--“Folk Voice of Iowa” fieldwork
Box   14
Folder   4
Janet Parrish
Box   14
Folder   5
Janet Parrish Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   6
Family Physicians
Box   14
Folder   7
Family Physicians Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   8
[Paula] Plasencia
Box   14
Folder   9
[Paula] Plasencia Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   10
Harley Refsal
Box   14
Folder   11
Janice Rosenberg
Box   14
Folder   12
Janice Rosenberg Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   13
Erin Roth
Box   14
Folder   14
Erin Roth Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   15
Beth Rotto
Box   14
Folder   16
Beth Rotto Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   17
Beth Rotto Fieldwork: “My Father Was a Fiddler” CD project, 1997
Note: Folder contains audiocassettes and compact discs.
Box   14
Folder   18
[Riki] Saltzman FAF Fieldwork Recommendations
Box   14
Folder   19
Jim Skurdall
Box   14
Folder   20
Jim Skurdall Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   21
Earl Sampson
Box   14
Folder   22
Farm/Hogs
Box   14
Folder   23
John Deere Workers
Box   14
Folder   24
Barr-Nunn Workers
Box   14
Folder   25
Frances Brewster [Saltzman interview notes]
Box   14
Folder   26
Bob Smith, Barr-Nunn [Saltzman interview notes]
Box   14
Folder   27
Jack Libbey--Deckhand Quiz
Box   14
Folder   28
Cynthia Schmidt
Box   14
Folder   29
Cynthia Schmidt Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   30
Kumsan R. Song
Box   14
Folder   31
Carolina Trumpold
Box   14
Folder   32
Priscilla Wanatee
Box   14
Folder   33
Priscilla Wanatee Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   34
Cliff Weston
Box   14
Folder   35
Jennifer Young
Box   14
Folder   36
Michael Zahs
Box   14
Folder   37
Michael Zahs Photo Log
Box   14
Folder   38
Check lists
Box   15
2. Fieldwork Files, County Surveys, Century Farms, and Supporting Documentation, 1995
Note: These files contain survey information that was used to provide preliminary data for Sesquicentennial folklife fieldworkers in preparation for their documentation of folklife in Iowa. Riki Saltzman and Cathy Kerst, festival curators, prepared surveys which were sent to all county sesquicentennial commissions.
Subseries: C. Sound Recordings
⇧
Box   5 and 19
1. Festival research, 1995-1996
Note: These 229 cassettes correlate with the fieldworker files in Boxes 13 and 14
2. Festival of Iowa Folklife event, 1996
Note: For DATS and audiocassettes, the number sequence begins anew for each day. (Check logs regarding the identification of missing tapes.)
Community Hall stage
Box   4
DAT   1-6
, 1996 August 22
Box   4
DAT   7-11
, 1996 August 23
Note: 1 missing
Box   4
DAT   12-17
, 1996 August 24
Box   4
DAT   18-23
, 1996 August 25
Note: 2 missing
Box   4
DAT   24
Unlabeled, undated
Note: Post-it note: “Listen #4-24th committee”
Civic Center Stage
Box   4
Cassettes   1-5
, 1996 August 22
Box   4
Cassettes   6-9
, 1996 August 23
Box   4
Cassettes   9-12
, 1996 August 24
Note: 2 missing
Box   4
Cassettes   13-17+2
, 1996 August 25
Talk Radio Stage
Box   4
Cassettes   18-19+4
, 1996 August 22
Box   4
Cassettes   20-22+2
, 1996 August 23
Box   4
Cassettes   23-24+3
, 1996 August 24
Box   4
Cassettes   25-28+1
, 1996 August 25
Note: 1 missing
Café Stage
Box   4
Cassettes   29-31
, 1996 August 22
Note: 2 missing
Box   4
Cassettes   32-34
, 1996 August 23
Note: 2 missing
Box   4
Cassettes   35-39
, 1996 August 24
Note: 1 missing
Box   4
Cassettes   40-42
, 1996 August 25
Note: 3 missing
Box   21
Subseries: D. Graphic Images and Videotapes
Note: Graphic Images and 32 video fieldwork tapes made during festival research in 1995 and 1996 correlate with fieldworker files in Boxes 13 and 14.
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Box   30
Series: V. 1997 Iowa Folklife Directory
⇧
Series: VI. NEA Network and Mentoring, 1997-2000
⇧
Box   12 and 18
Subseries: A. Administrative files, 1997-2000
Note: Includes grant proposal and supporting documents.
Subseries: B. African American Summer Internship and Community Tour, 1998
Note: Sophia Douglas fieldwork for the African American Tour: “The Faces and Voice of Iowa Building CommUNITY,” 1998 October 19.
⇧
1. Manuscript Materials
Box   18
Folder   1-4
Photos--Logs, Contacts, Prints Roll 1-4
Box   18
Folder   5
OSACS [Women's Center]
Box   18
Folder   6
First Stop Soul Food (L. Kinchelow)
Box   18
Folder   7
Loose Enz Beauty Shop
Box   18
Folder   8
Burns United Methodist Church
Box   18
Folder   9
Creative Visions/Estes--Nichols
Box   18
Folder   10
Prayer of Faith C.O.G.I.C.
Box   18
Folder   11
Lowery's Dept. Store
Box   18
Folder   12
Corinthian Baptist Church
Box   18
Folder   13
Wilkie House
Box   18
Folder   14
St. Paul A.M.E.
Box   18
Folder   15
Suney Sites (tour sites) Big Daddy's Barbecue
Box   18
Folder   16
Soul City Café
Box   18
Folder   17
African American internship, 1998
Box   18
Folder   18
Contacts
Box   18
Folder   19
African American Tour receipts
Box   18
Loose newspaper clippings
2. Sound Recordings
Box   18
Cassette   1
Paulette Wiley, Wilkie House executive director, 1998 June 22
Box   18
Cassette   2
Jeff Campbell, Soul City Café, 1998 June 23
Box   18
Cassette   3
Prayer of Faith C.O.G.I.C. church service, 1998 June 28
Box   18
Cassette   4
J. Narcisse, Publisher of The Communicator, 1998 June 30
Box   18
Cassette   5
Rev. Hurst, St. Paul AME, 1998 July 1
Box   18
Cassette   6
Midge Cole, hairdresser, 1998 October 19
Box   18
Cassette   7
Ike Seymour, Big Daddy's Barbecue, 1998 July 23
Box   18
Cassette   8
Sheila Woods, Loose Enz stylist, 1998 July 28
Box   18
Cassette   9
Fred Nichols, owner Estes-Nichols Home, 1998 July 29
Box   18
Cassette   10
Marcia Trent, OSACS Women's Center executive director, 1998 August 5
Box   18
Cassette   11
Dana Jones Hughes, Soul City Café, 1998 September 8
3. Electronic Documents (diskettes)
Box   18
“African American Tour Juneteenth/JIMMC report (449)”
Box   18
“7/98, contact list, African-American Community Tour/Invoices,” [1998 July]
Box   18
“Soul City Photo/African American Tour”
Box   18
8 black-and-white photographs
Box   23
Subseries: C. Ethnic Tours, 1997
Note: These files include cassette tapes, photos, black-and-white negatives and contact sheets, color slides, field notes, tape logs, photo logs, data forms, and release forms.
⇧
Box   26
Subseries: D. Iowa Folklife Institutes, 1997-2001
Note: This box contains administrative and programming information for a series of folklife educational workshops and conferences.
⇧
Box   27
Subseries: E. Tourism and Diversity Conferences
Note: This box contains program information and administrative files related to the NEA grant funding, and information regarding the ethnic neighborhood tours provided at these conferences.
⇧
Series: VII. Iowa Traditions in Transition, 1998-2000
⇧
Subseries: A. Administrative Files
Box   6
Folder   1
NEA stuff--Traditions
Box   6
Folder   2
NEA '99--Asst. Folklife Coordinator
Box   6
Folder   2a
FFC Support Materials
Box   6
Folder   3
Traditions--Media coverage
Box   6
Folder   4
Handouts
Box   6
Folder   5
Contracts
Box   6
Folder   6
Correspondence
Box   6
Folder   7
Latinos
Box   6
Folder   8
ABE Coordinators
Box   6
Folder   9
Immigration information
Box   6
Folder   10
General stuff--ITT training
Box   6
Folder   11
Advisors, 1998 January 28
Box   6
Folder   12
Contacts ESL
Box   6
Folder   13
BRS, 1998 March 24
Box   6
Folder   14
Phone numbers/Contact information
Box   6
Folder   15
ITT records/Blank forms
Box   6
Folder   16
Library ITT
Box   8
Additional files
Box   7
Administrative and Program Information on the 25th Anniversary of Freedom, Iowa, SE Asian Communities (Cambodians, Hmong, Lao, Tai Dam, Vietnamese), 2000
Subseries: B. Fieldwork Files
⇧
Box   6
Folder   17
Hartley-Somali
Box   6
Folder   18
SL Recs, [Tim] Evans, 1999
Box   6
Folder   19
Tim Evans--Daily Journal ITT, Sioux City, Storm Lake
Box   6
Folder   20
Evans--Storm Lake Forms/Notes
Box   6
Folder   21
Evans--Storm Lake Info
Box   6
Folder   22
Evans--Sioux City Report
Box   6
Folder   23
Evans--Sioux City Forms/Notes
Box   6
Folder   24
Evans--Sioux City Info
Box   6
Folder   25-26
[Bill] Lockwood--Waterloo Bosnians
Box   6
Folder   27
Lockwood--Waterloo Latino
Box   6
Folder   28
Lockwood Report, 1998 July 2
Box   6
Folder   29
Mercedes Malagon--Waterloo [Latino]
Box   6
Folder   30
[Jane] Shuttleworth--Waterloo/Marshalltown/Tama/Toledo[Latino] Report, Notes
Box   6
Folder   31
Shuttleworth--Marshalltown [Fieldnotes/Logs]
Box   6
Folder   32
Shuttleworth--Waterloo [Internet research on El Salvador from interviewee]
Box   6
Folder   33
[Rich] Horwitz--Cedar Rapids/West Liberty General Report/Recommendations
Box   6
Folder   34
Horwitz--Cedar Rapids/West Liberty Fieldnotes/Logs
Box   6
Folder   35
Horwitz--Cedar Rapids/West Liberty Support Materials
Box   6
Folder   36
Tracy Ramirez--West Liberty [Latino] [Fieldnotes/Logs]
Box   6
Folder   37
[Cindy] Kerchmar--Quad Cities--Crochet by Mara Ljerar [contains artifact]
Box   6
Folder   38
Kerchmar--Quad Cities [Bosnian, Vietnamese]--Misc. [field report, correspondence]
Box   6
Folder   39
Kerchmar--Quad Cities/Muscatine--Data sheets
Box   6
Folder   40
Hvong Kieu--Davenport Vietnamese
Box   6
Folder   41
Jasmina Katinic--Quad Cities [Bosnian] [Data sheets]
Box   6
Folder   42
Snjezana Nedic--Quad Cities [Bosnian] [Data sheets]
Box   6
Folder   43
[Erin] Roth--Marshalltown [Nuer]--Dual Gony
Box   6
Folder   44
Roth--Marshalltown/Tama--Field Notes
Box   6
Folder   45
Roth--Marshalltown--Support Materials
Subseries: C. Fieldwork Sound Recordings and Photographs
⇧
Audiocassettes
Box   8
Cassettes [no content information available]
Box   9
Cassettes   1-11
Storm Lake
Box   9
Cassettes   12-29
Waterloo
Box   9
Cassettes   30-33
Marshalltown--Shuttleworth
Box   9
Cassettes   34-39
Waterloo--Shuttleworth
Box   9
Cassettes   40-54
Quad Cities--Kerchmar
Box   9
Cassettes   55-66
Marshalltown--Roth
Box   9
Cassettes   67-78
West Liberty, Cedar Rapids, West Branch--Horwitz
Box   9
Cassettes   79-80
Production, West Liberty Library, SE Asian refugee panel, 2000 September 23
Binders  
Color Slides: 4 binders, 35 mm
Subseries: D. Public Programs
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1. Waterloo
Note: Also see section 11 in this subseries.
Box   7
Folder   1
Waterloo/Bosnians
Box   7
Folder   2
Junior Art Gallery Exhibit--Waterloo
Box   7
Folder   3
Hispanics--Waterloo
Box   7
Folder   4
ABE--Waterloo--Libraries
Box   7
Folder   5
Phyllis
Box   7
Folder   6
C&S
Box   7
Folder   7
LSS
2. Storm Lake
Note: Also see section 8 in this subseries.
Box   7
Folder   8
Library SL
Box   7
Folder   9
ITT Library Programs--Storm Lake, loose clippings
Box   7
Folder   10
Storm Lake Maps
Box   7
Folder   11
Storm Lake Diversity
Box   7
Folder   12
Storm Lake Asian (Lao)
Box   7
Folder   13
Storm Lake Hispanic
3. Davenport
Box   7
Folder   14
Muscatine
Box   7
Folder   15
Davenport travel
Box   7
Folder   16
Asians--Davenport
Box   7
Folder   17
Davenport
4. Sioux City
Note: Also see section 9 in this subseries.
Box   7
Folder   18
Sioux City Recs--Evans
Box   7
Folder   19
Casa Latina
Box   7
Folder   20
Admin.--W. Iowa
Box   7
Folder   21
ESL--Sioux City
Box   7
Folder   22
Hispanic--Sioux City
Box   7
Folder   23
Art Center--Sioux City
Box   7
Folder   24
SE Asians--Sioux City
Box   7
Folder   25
BRS--Sioux City
5. Cedar Rapids/West Liberty
Note: Also see section 12 in this subseries.
Box   7
Folder   26
Cedar Rapids
Box   7
Folder   27
Iraqi--Cedar Rapids
Box   7
Folder   28
Somali--Cedar Rapids
Box   7
Folder   29
Hispanics--Cedar Rapids
Box   7
Folder   30
Taha [Tawl]
Box   7
Folder   31
ABE--Cedar Rapids
6. Library and CS
Box   7
Folder   32
My [Riki Saltzman] Notes
Box   7
Folder   33
Riki's Library Programs, 2000 Summer
Box   7
Folder   34
Event flyers, publicity
Box   7
Folder   35
Karen's Library Program Notes, 2000
Box   7
Folder   36
Contracts for Community Scholars
Box   7
Folder   37
Nuer Hair Braiders
7. Program Planning/Documentation
Box   7
Folder   38
ITT Publicity, Program Schedules
Box   7
Folder   39
ITT Library Program Notes
Box   7
Folder   40
ITT Community Scholars List
Box   7
Folder   41
Library Contact Information
Box   7
Folder   42
Program Evaluations Forms
Box   7
Folder   43
ITT Planning--Programs
Box   7
Folder   44
ITT Library Program Handouts
Box   7
Folder   45
Completed Evaluations
Box   7
Folder   46
ITT Program PR, Info
Box   7
Folder   47
Library Articles
8. Storm Lake
Box   7
Folder   48
Notes--Evans
Box   7
Folder   49
Library Program
9. Sioux City
Box   7
Folder   50
Library Program--Asian
Box   7
Folder   51
Library Program--Latino
Box   7
Folder   52
Library Program--General Notes, Information
Box   7
Folder   53
Library Program--General Planning Notes
10. Marshalltown/Tama/Toledo
Box   7
Folder   54
Library Program
Box   7
Folder   55
Library Program--Nuer
Box   7
Folder   56
Library Program--Latino
11. Waterloo
Box   7
Folder   57
Waterloo Notes--Lockwood
Box   7
Folder   58
Library Program--Latino
Box   7
Folder   59
Library Program--Bosnian
12. West Liberty
Box   7
Folder   60
Notes--Horwitz
Box   7
Folder   61
Library Program--Asian
Box   7
Folder   62
Library Program--Latino
Box   7
Folder   63
Library Program--General Information
13. Riki Saltzman Research Files and Audiocassettes
Davenport
Box   7a
Folder   1
Library Program--Vietnamese
Box   7a
Folder   2
Library Program--Bosnia
Box   7a
Folder   3
Library Program--General Notes, Information
Box   7a
Folder   4
Library Program--Planning Notes
Cedar Rapids
Box   7a
Folder   5
Library Program
Box   7a
Folder   6
Notes--Horwitz
Box   7a
Folder   7
Muscatine Library Program
14. Riki Saltzman Des Moines Research
Box   7a
Folder   8
Hawthorne Hill--Sudanese Stuff
Box   7a
Folder   9
Nuer--Sudanese
Box   7a
Folder   10
Hawthorne Hill--Des Moines
Box   7a
Folder   11
Sudanese--Nuer
Box   7a
Folder   12
Bosnians--Des Moines
Box   7a
Folder   13
Matsalyn Baccam
Box   7a
Folder   14
BRS 25th Anniversary
Box   7a
Folder   15
Mladen, Lejesnic, Bosnian
Box   7a
Folder   16
Contacts for Des Moines Playhouse
Box   7a
Folder   17
Refugees
Box   7a
Folder   18
Kurds newspaper clipping
Box   7a
Folder   19
Polk County Diversity Committee
Box   7a
Folder   20
Eastern European
Box   7a
Folder   21
Asian
Box   7a
Folder   22
Latino
Southeast Asian
Box   7a
Folder   23-24
Cambodian/Khmer
Box   7a
Folder   25
Hmong--Xay Lee--Paj Ntaub
Box   7a
Folder   26
SE Asians
Box   7a
Folder   27
Hmong
Box   7a
Folder   28
Vietnamese
Box   7a
Folder   29
Cambodian New Year, 2000
Box   7a
Folder   30
Vietnamese New Year, 1999
Box   7a
Folder   31
Lao Weddings/Tai Dam Weddings [invitations]
Box   7a
Folder   32
Hmong New Year, 1999-2000
Box   7a
Folder   33-34
Tai Dam [includes slides]
Miscellaneous
Box   7a
Folder   35
SE Asians--Human Rights, 2000
Box   7a
Folder   36
Refugee-owned business training
Box   7a
Folder   37
Waterloo-CR-CF-IC, 1998 March
Box   7a
Folder   1a-2a
Cervera--Ford, Latinos
Box   7a
Folder   3a-6a
Dedoch--Nuer
Box   7a
Folder   7a-14a
Tai Dam--Baccam
Box   7a
Folder   15a-34a
Sioux City--Evans
Subseries: E. Muscatine High School ESL Class Fieldwork, 1999
Note: Groups of students in teacher Chris Clark's ESL class at Muscatine High School documented local culture after a visit from contract folklorist Cindy Kerchmar. Manila packets organized by subject contain a variety of fieldwork materials--photos, slides, sound recordings, logs, field notes, disks--and class reports.
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Box   34
Folder   1
Rice
Box   34
Folder   2
Knitting and Crochet
Box   34
Folder   3
The Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos
Box   34
Folder   4
Tamales
Box   34
Folder   5
Legends
Box   34
Folder   6
Ghost stories
Box   34
Packet 1
7 audiocassettes (Rice, Knitting and Crochet, The Day of the Dead/ Dia de los Muertos, Tamales, Legends, Ghost stories) and 5 color slides (Legends)
Box   34
Packet 2
Christian's Salon [109 Iowa Avenue, Muscatine, Iowa, Mary and Ruben Trejo, owners]
Box   34
Folder   3
Cruising
Box   34
Packet 4
El Allende [restaurant, Manuel and Ana Rojas, owners]
Box   34
Packet 5
El Olmito [grocery store and restaurant, Felix Calderon, owner]
Box   34
Packet 6
Eternity Spring Fashions [Angelica Dirzo, owner]
Box   34
Packet 7
Grupo Milenio [band, Jaime Martinez, Felix Vazquez, Sau Gerrero, Eugenio Solis, Jesus Solis, members]
Box   34
Packet 8
La Michoacana [restaurant and grocery store, Maria Guzman, owner]
Box   34
Packet 9
Leo's Garage [Leo Miranda, owner]
Box   34
Packet 10
Low Riders [Norberto Ibarra, teacher at Central Middle School, interviewed]
Box   34
Packet 11
Mary's Boutique [Anna-Maria Zapata, owner]
Box   34
Packet 12
Mi Pueblo [restaurant, Ramiro Rosas, owner]
Box   34
Packet 13
Peking Restaurant [Michael ??, interviewed]
Box   34
Packet 14
Quinceañera [Maria Ruiz, interviewed]
Box   34
Packet 15
Tonio's Toppers [Rubin and Elsa Valenzuela, owners]
Box   34
Packet 16
Twin Oaks [restaurant, Rivera family, owners]
Series: VIII. Festival of Iowa Folklife: Cultural Crossroads, 2001
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Box   10-11
Administration Files
Box   11
Cassettes from performances
Box   25
News clippings
Series: IX. Multi-State Projects in the Midwest, 2000-2004
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Box   28
Subseries: A. Upper Midwest Traditional Arts Touring Project: Global Sounds, Heartland Beats, 1998-2001
Note: Administrative files, artists' biographies and promotional kits, and information about various presenting venues. For Iowa, this project was linked to the 2001 Festival of Iowa Folklife in Waterloo (Boxes 10, 11, 25).
Box   31
Subseries: B. Missouri River Folklife Project--Survey and Grants
Note: Administrative papers, grant proposals, meeting notes, and some fieldwork files.
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Box   31
Subseries: C. Tri-State Festivals, 2000-2004
Note: Administrative files, grant proposals, schedules, and meeting notes for the folklife festival partnership among Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, 2000-2004. Files for the 2004 Midwest Folk Fest in Waterloo are included. Files for the 2001 festival in Iowa are with those for the Festival of Iowa Folklife, Boxes 10, 11, 25. More information on the fieldwork and programming for the 2004 festival is in the “Cultural Express: Iowa Folk Arts on Tour” boxes not described in this collection guide.
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Box   29
Series: X. Iowa Folklife Education Guide: Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities, and Traditions, 1997
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