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    Art of the Adze: Bowl Hewing in Indiana
    (Swope Museum of Art, 2023-07-07) Kay, Jon
    Hewing wooden bowls is widely considered one of the oldest crafts. For thousands of years, makers have carved useful basins and trays out of wooden slabs. In Indiana bowl hewers use an adze, a hatchet-like tool with the blade turned sideways, to shape and hollow their bowls. While the craft nearly vanished in the early 20th Century in the United States, it enjoyed a revival in Indiana when Bill Day started hewing artfully rustic bowls out of cherry, poplar, and sassafras in Warren County. The distinctive aesthetic forms Bill Day and his students created are noticeably different from the Scandinavian and Appalachian bowl carving traditions sometimes featured in museum exhibitions. This exhibition and catalogue highlights Indiana's distinctive tradition of hewing wooden bowl.
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    Traditional Arts Indiana Apprenticeships & Heritage Fellowships 2023 and 2024
    (Traditional Arts Indiana, 2024-10-01) Traditional Arts Indiana; Kay, Jon; Gilette, Claire; Chomitzky, Katya; Islam, Touhidul; Toole, Connor
    This book contains photos and written profiles about the people featured in Traditional Arts Indiana's Apprenticeships and Heritage Fellowship programs in 2023 and 2024.
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    Traditional Arts Indiana Apprenticeship Program 2019
    (Traditional Arts Indiana, 2019-10) Traditional Arts Indiana; Jon Kay
    This booklet includes descriptions of the 2019 Indiana Apprenticeship Award recipients. Traditional Arts Indiana (TAI) works throughout Indiana to identify, document, and promote the folk and traditional arts. TAI strives to support the work of artists and their communities in ways that ensure the continuation of valued community-based knowledge. TAI’s Apprenticeship Program encourages the intergenerational transmission of aesthetic forms and traditional practices rooted in community life. A time-tested model for learning, face-to-face apprenticeships allow artists and their apprentices the time and space to dive deeply into their work together.
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    Memory, Art, and Aging: A Resources and Activity Guide
    (Traditional Arts Indiana, 2020) Traditional Arts Indiana; Jon Kay
    Based on fieldwork in southern Indiana, this resource guide was developed to explore how everyday arts help older adults in later life. The guide contains a collection of artist profiles of older adults in Indiana engaged in creative practices. Profiles are paired with activities and resources for older adults.
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    Everyday Arts in Later Life
    (Traditional Arts Indiana, 2024) Traditional Arts Indiana; Kay, Jon; Jackson, Joelle; Islam, Touhidul
    This guide is a collection of artist profiles and activities aimed to highlight the importance of creative practice in later life, especially creative undertakings that are embeded in everyday life. The engaging profiles are paired with resources and activities.