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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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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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