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    Field Notes: News from Traditional Arts Indiana
    (Traditional Arts Indiana / Indiana University, 2007-02) Traditional Arts Indiana
    This issue features: In this issue: Arts Fair on the Square, Volbrecht Luthier Exhibit, Bernice Enyeart Quilt Exhibit, Indiana Festival, Marion Octoberfest, TAI at the Indiana State Fair, Rotating Exhibit Network, and David and Joel Straubinger, flute builders
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    Field Notes: News from Traditional Arts Indiana
    (Traditional Arts Indiana / Indiana University, 2005-12) Traditional Arts Indiana
    This issue of Field Notes introduces the State Fair Masters, the Piecemakers, master quilters, and the Huber Family, master winemakers. There is also a report on TAI Day at the Indiana State Fair, featuring musical performances and the Fiddle Contest. TAI also sponsored artists to share their art at Bloomington's Fair on the Square. TAI also partnered with seven convention and visitor bureaus along I-69 to effect a fieldwork project to identify and document over 100 traditional artists. TAI introduces the Rotating Exhibit Project. Artist Earl Riser, dobro player, is introduced along with his experiences of the Waterloo Depot Jam Session.
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    Field Notes: News from Traditional Arts Indiana
    (Traditional Arts Indiana / Indiana University, 2004-11) Traditional Arts Indiana
    This issue of Field Notes recognizes TAI artist Milan Opacich for receiving a National Heritage Fellowship. It also reports on the Indiana State Fair fiddle contest and performances, as well as the State Fair Masters, the Farrer family (master gardeners) and Wilma Jean Swann and Martha Miller (mother-daughter seamstress team). There is also a fieldwork report on wood-carver Willis Hokes and an artist portrait of Kenny Stone, bluegrass fiddler.
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    Field Notes: News from Traditional Arts Indiana
    (Traditional Arts Indiana / Indiana University, 2004-05) Traditional Arts Indiana
    In this issue, incoming director Jon Kay is introduced, as well as the Indiana Historical Society's Share-a-Legacy Day, where TAI sponsored three groups to perform. Also included is a report on the survey of traditional arts in Grant County, a field visit to blacksmith John Zile, and an artist profile on drummer Prince Julius Akanbi Adeniyi and apprentices Keesha Dixon and Anthony DeMar.
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    Field Notes: News from Traditional Arts Indiana
    (Traditional Arts Indiana / Indiana University, 2003-11) Traditional Arts Indiana
    This issue of Field Notes opens with a report on the first State Fair Fiddle Contest and State Fair Masters candy-maker Mary Borgman, and Angus breeders Jim and Randee Patton. TAI also reports on local programming that it sponsored, which included music, dance, and food. The featured artist is Clary Butler, sacred steel player from Indianapolis. Also included is a helpful note about artists and sales tax.
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    Field Notes: News from Traditional Arts Indiana
    (Traditional Arts Indiana / Indiana University, 2003-05) Traditional Arts Indiana
    This issue of Field Notes focuses on the Cross Plains Jam Session, Family Day at the Indiana Historical Society, and TAI's new website. Artists discussed at length include Robert Turner and the Silver Heart Gospel Singers, and Benny and Bill Gabbert, bluegrass musicians. Also included was a report on TAI's involvement in the Indiana University curriculum.
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    Field Notes: News from Traditional Arts Indiana
    (Traditional Arts Indiana / Indiana University, 2002-10) Traditional Arts Indiana
    This issue of Field Notes focuses on three county fairs in Indiana, the Lake County Fair, the DuBois County Fair, and the Jackson County Fair. Also included was a report from the Indiana State Fair, where TAI Day featured mariachi and bluegrass performances, as well as an apprenticeship presentation and the State Fair Masters.
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    Field Notes: News from Traditional Arts Indiana
    (Traditional Arts Indiana / Indiana University, 2002-04) Traditional Arts Indiana
    In this issue of Field Notes, Traditional Arts Indiana introduces its Master-Apprentice Program, which assisted three master artists--Angie Caldwell, Milan Opacich, and Jim Cooper--in taking on apprentices. Also included are reports on TAI working with the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department classes to teach fieldwork methods and the Lyceum bus tour featuring foodways, music, fishing, and history. The artist portrait features Jim Cooper, hoop-net maker, and the fieldworker notes discuss the Dogtown Tavern in Union Township, featuring clabber players.
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    Field Notes: News from Traditional Arts Indiana
    (Traditional Arts Indiana / Indiana University, 2001-10) Traditional Arts Indiana
    This issue of Field Notes discusses the Indiana State Fair and the Indiana State Fair Masters, as well as the Traditional Arts Indiana-sponsored performances and an account of horse and pony judging. Included also were reports on the Field School on issues of community and disability, and an artist portrait of Estonian kannel maker Ain Haas.
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    Field Notes: News from Traditional Arts Indiana
    (Traditional Arts Indiana / Indiana University, 2001-03) Traditional Arts Indiana
    This issue of Field Notes deals with arts in the Calumet region, the Work and Life: Voices from Perry County project. It also features discussions on artists Milan Opacich and LadySax.