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Publications
"Art for Life: The Therapeutic Power and
Promise of the Arts"
- Produced by the North Dakota Council on the
Arts in the hopes of encouraging individuals, organizations, and
institutions to utilize art therapy or therapeutic art activities.
This complimentary publication documents a pilot program and study with elders in
a long-term care facility.
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"Art for Life"
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for Life"
Faces of Identity, Hands of Skill: Folk Arts
in North Dakota
By Troyd A. Geist
- This 40-page, full-color, book focuses on the
traditions embodied in the lives of North Dakota folk artists
representing twelve cultural groups: Mandan, Dakota Sioux, Sisseton
Sioux, Lakota/Hidatsa, Metis, Banat German, Ukrainian, German-Russian,
Armenian, Khmer, Kurdish, and Vietnamese. It attempts to illustrate the
integrated nature of culture and to show how folk art brings a face to
familial, religious, and cultural identity. The traditions of these folk
artists have passed the test of time, surviving and reflecting
immigration, "hard years," political and religious persecution, and
wars.
- Price: $15.95 plus 6% tax, and $3.00 shipping/handling.
E-mail comserv@nd.gov or
call 701-328-7590 to order.
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Faces of Identity, Hands of Skill
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Faces of Identity, Hands of Skill
From the Wellspring: Faith Soil,
Tradition
Folk Arts from Ukrainian Culture in North Dakota
By Troyd A. Geist
- This 35-page, full-color book shares the rich
cultural arts and traditions of Ukrainians in North Dakota. In the late
1800s and early 1900s, Ukrainians came to North Dakota in search of
land. While starting over in this new land, they held on to what was
familiar to them: their identity, folk arts, and traditions. This book
focuses on four traditions: embroidery, decorative ritual bread making
and wheat-weaving, pysanky (decorated Easter eggs), and cymbaly
(hammered dulcimer) making and playing. The book also has a natural dyes
and symbolism section describing the colors and designs used on pysanky.
- Price: $15.95 plus 6% tax, and $3.00 shipping/handling.
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From the Wellspring
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From the Wellspring
Iron Spirits
Editors: Nicholas Curchin Vrooman, Project Director, and Patrice Avon
Marvin
Photographers: Jane Gudmundson, and Wayne Gudmundson
Designed by: Vern Goodin
- This 116-page book is about the tradition of blacksmith made iron
grave crosses, the people who made them and the communities they
served. It is a story of hard work and faith. The crosses are a
profile and inspiring body of work by a small number of people and can
be considered some of America's finest folk art. Through them we hope
to understand and appreciate art and culture in a very fundamental
way.
- Price: $10.95 plus 6% tax, and $3.00 shipping/handling.
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Prairie Patterns: Folk Arts in North
Dakota
By Christopher Martin
- This 126-page book contains biographical
sketches of 32 North Dakota folk artists with color and black and white
photographs of their work. These art forms are broken down into four
categories: Celebration, Social Gathering, and Belief; Occupational
Skills and Western Crafts; Sport, Hobby, and Play; and Ethnic and Tribal
Decoration. In the first category, readers will find traditions
including quilting and American Indian pipes; in the next, gun engraving
and wheelwrighting. Sport, Hobby, and Play includes dogsled and snowshoe
making as well as Scandinavian figure carving. Finally, Ethiopian coiled
baskets and Ojibway birchbark baskets and beadwork are two features in
Decoration.
- Price: $25.00 plus 6% tax, and $3.00 shipping/handling.
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Prairie Patterns
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Sister Rosalia's Lace
By Christopher Martin
- This 16-page exhibit catalog features black
and white photographs of bobbin lace by Sister Rosalia Haberl. Sister
Rosalia, a Franciscan Sister from the Convent in Hankinson, ND, was born
in 1897 in the small town of Schonsee in Bavaria. As a young girl, she
attended the government-sponsored Royal Bobbin Lace School for three
years. Bobbin lace has become a rare folk art, due primarily to the
tremendous amount of time required to make a single piece. To make
bobbin lace, fine linen thread wound around wooden bobbins is guided
around pins stuck into a pattern. In 1988, Sister Rosalia was awarded a
National Heritage Fellowship, the nation's highest honor for a
traditional artist, form the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Price: $3.00 plus 6% tax, and $3.00 shipping/handling.
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Recordings
All CD's are $15.95 plus 6% tax, and $3.00 shipping/handling.
E-mail comserv@nd.gov or
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Spirit Woods
Traditional Stories and Songs of Forests and Trees
- The tree is an ancient, near universal symbol found in cultures
across the world playing a central role in Germanic, Celtic, Norse,
and American Plains Indian lore. To this day, revered trees like oak,
ash,elm, cottonwood, evergreen, and others figure prominently in folk
beliefs, stories, songs, and art. Told by award-winning storytellers,
this collection of folk stories illustrates the cultural, artistic,
educational, and spiritual place trees occupy.
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Achikadidi
Traditional Ma'di Music of Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda
- Named after a famous waterfall in Ma'di territory in southern Sudan,
this CD features traditional musicians and singers from a growing Ma'di
refugee community in Fargo who continue to play music and sing as they
make a new life. The CD's ten songs, performed in a call-and-response
style, reflect Ma'di culture and history ranging from New Year
celebrations to marriage traditions and from British and Arab colonial
rule to the current civil war in Sudan. An enhanced CD component
includes the traditional story The Friendship Between Hare, Lia, and
Leopard, a video of the song Kalendo, as well as maps, song translations
with associated cultural notes, and photographs designed to provide a
broader context for Ma'di music and culture.
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Achikadidi
Un de' che cha pi: The Way We Are
By Mary Louise Defender Wilson
- The third spoken word CD by Mary Louise Defender Wilson produced by
the NDCA, this CD features five traditional stories that deal with four
issues in human nature that people struggle to keep in balance: food,
violence and anger, group or gang tendencies, and sex. The previous two
CDs - The Elders Speak (with Ojibway elder and storyteller
Francis Cree) and My Relatives Say - were co-produced with
Makoche Music of Bismarck. The new CD features several stories about
Unktomi, or Spiderman, a trickster representing human nature before
we became "civilized," according to Mary Louise. She states that the
issues of food, anger, group tendencies, and sex are inherent in every
human being and must be kept in balance if we are to live freely to be
the "kind of civilized person we are meant to be."
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Un de' che cha pi: The Way We Are
Faerie Harp
By Debi Rogers and Sue Bicknell
- A delightful array of Celtic melodies and stories from the British
isles are woven together in this aural tapestry. Faerie Harp
conjures images of a land steeped in magical enchantment. With a strong
sense of tradition, three ancient stories, instrumental tunes, and lush
vocals sung in Irish, Welsh, and English blend with guitars, Gaelic
harps, Highland bagpipes, and fiddle to transport you to Celtia.
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Faerie Harp
At the Fiddler's Knee
By Dick and Lisa Barrett
- This compact disc features Dick Barrett, one of the best traditional fiddle players in the country, his
talented wife Lisa, and two of their gifted apprentices, John Owen Lardinois, Jr. and Preston
Schmidt. The deeply rooted music, presented here in 29 tracks, is intertwined with colorful
interviews that illustrate how the fiddle tradition and this master fiddler's life have shaped one
another.
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My Relatives Say
Traditional Dakotah Stories as Told by Mary Louise Defender Wilson
- "They are wiser than us in many ways," says Mary Louise Defender
Wilson. The lessons and character of humanity and how to live in a
civilized way are taught through traditional stories and are exemplified
by the animals, wind and stars observed around us. This audio and
enhanced CD contains cultural content, photographs, and video clips of
the animals and artwork spoken of in the stories.
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Morning Star Whispered
Traditional Mandan and Hidatsa Stories and Flute Music by Keith Bear
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Keith Bear, whose name in the Nu E’ta
(Mandan) language is O’Mashi! Ryu Tâ, meaning Northern Lights,
is an award-winning Mandan and Hidatsa flute player, storyteller, and
traditionalist of exceptional talent living in Drags Wolf Village on
the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation of northwestern North Dakota. He
has performed nationally at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the
Library of Congress-American Folklife Center, the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts, the National Museum of the American
Indian as well as internationally in Switzerland, Ireland, Wales,
Germany, Austria, and Canada.
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This recording, produced by the North Dakota
Council on the Arts, features Keith playing music on flutes he carved
himself and telling stories involving the Morning Star and other
astronomical bodies. The enhanced component provides cultural context
to the stories told and ‘the stars’ [Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus, comets,
etc.] referenced in the audio component through images of traditional
art, text involving folk beliefs, an interactive map, audio
interviews, and animation from NASA and the European Space Agency.
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This CD is $14.98 (plus $4.25 shipping &
handling per order [not per CD]). To purchase this CD, contact Makoché Music at 208
N 4th St., Bismarck, ND 58501; telephone: 800.ND.SOUND; web site:
www.makoche.com; or email:
info@makoche.com.
The Elders Speak
Dakotah and
Ojibway Stories of the Land. Told by Gourd Woman and Eagle Heart
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With a simple offering and
acceptance of tobacco, the "Old Ones" unfold ancient stories and make
known a mystical and spiritual land. The storytellers speak of a land
where the waters, buttes, stones, plants and animals reveal the lessons
and origins of Humanity. These places and their stories are all around
us and speak to us today. Gourd Woman and Eagle Heart, with kindly
hearts and a genuine desire to preserve these rare stories for future
generations, share them on this remarkable recording, available on
cassette and enhanced CD. Great for children, adults, students,
educators and those simply wanting to be entertained, this enhanced CD
contains maps and photos of the landmark areas and folk arts described
in their stories. This enhanced CD can be heard in any CD player.
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Videos
Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices:
Iron Crosses of the Great Plains
Produced by Prairie Public Television, written by Dr. Timothy J.
Kloberdanz
- "Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices: Iron Crosses of the Great
Plains"—a video documentary co-produced by Prairie Public Broadcasting
and the North Dakota State University Libraries— follows the history of
the traditional iron cemetery grave marker as the folk art migrated from
Germany to the Russian Ukraine—and eventually to the Great Plains of
North Dakota and Canada. The iron crosses—some intricate, some simple,
but no two quite the same—are found in cemeteries and in agricultural
fields across the region. Major funding for the documentary was provided
by the North Dakota Humanities Council, North Dakota State University
Libraries, the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding
from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts, and
the members of Prairie Public Broadcasting.
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For more information, visit the Prairie Public Television Web site
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