Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeships
Apprenticeship Grants are now open for 2025. If you would like to apply, please submit your application, available below, by April 14 at 5:00 p.m.
Are you a skilled practitioner of a traditional art form interested in passing on your traditions? Do you know a skilled practitioner whose art you would like to learn? You may be eligible for an apprenticeship in a traditional art, supported by the PCA.
As a folk art partner with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Everhart can help artists in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties apply for the apprenticeship program. Grants are up to $4,000 to cover time and supplies for a master artist working with a qualified apprentice. More information and the application form are available by clicking the button below.
To contact the facilitator of this program at the Everhart, please email Camille Dantone at camille@everhart-museum.org.
Doug Smith’s Dixieland All-Stars at Dixieland Delight Performance Series
What is the PCA Folk and Traditional Arts Program?
Folk and Traditional Arts are artistic traditions of specific communities: groups of people who share a common ethnicity, religion, language, occupation, or homeland. These arts are shaped and shared within families, neighborhoods, and communities. They are passed down from one generation to another through observation, practice, or apprenticeships with elders and masters, rather than through formal education.
The Pennsylvania Council On The Arts Folk and Traditional Arts Partnership program operates in 40 counties and works to investigate, document, present, sustain, and promote the folk and traditional art of Pennsylvania in order to celebrate our diverse heritage. This system of local and regional organizations forms a mutually supportive network and specializes in, or includes, a focus on folk and traditional arts.
The Everhart works to sustain cultural and artistic practices rooted in the histories, traditions, and everyday lives of people in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties. We work to identify traditional artists in the NEPA region, assist those artists in keeping their traditions and create community access to folk arts through presentations, performances, workshops, and other programs.
For more information, click the button below.
Frank Littlebear and the
Red Visions Native American Dance Team
Light on Culture: Artistic Traditions of India with Mona Pande