NEA National Heritage Fellowships 1989
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John Cephas was born in 1930 in the Foggy Bottom area of Washington, D.C. His father was a Baptist...
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The Fairfield Four was first organized as an a cappella gospel trio of young African American men in the...
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José Gutiérrez was born July 2, 1942, on a ranch called La Costa de la Palma (the palm tree...
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Richard Hagopian was born April 3, 1937, to Armenian parents in the small town of Fowler in the central...
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Christy Hengel was born December 25, 1922, on a farm about four miles east of Wanda in southwestern Minnesota....
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Ilias Kementzides was born April 2, 1926, in Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union, of Greek parents from Sampsunda, Pontus....
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During the Depression years of the 1930s, an unemployed wagon-stripper in southern Wisconsin named Per Lysne turned to rosemaling,...
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Vanessa Paukeigope Morgan was born October 5, 1952, in the Gila River Indian community near Tempe, Arizona, the daughter...
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Mabel Murphy was born in 1907 in Callaway County, in the agricultural heartland of Missouri. She began school at...
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LaVaughn Robinson was born February 9, 1927, in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He learned to dance from his mother at...
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Earl Scruggs was born January 6, 1924, near Shelby, North Carolina, in an area known as the Flint Hill...
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Harry V. Shourds was born July 24, 1930, on the New Jersey coast He is a third-generation decoy carver....
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Chesley Goseyun Wilson was born July 31, 1932, in the village of Bylas on the San Carlos Apache Reservation...