Enrollment limited to 6; registration by permission of instructors
(graduates email:  carpente@indiana.edu or phone:  855-8049;
undergraduates email:  erlpeter@indiana.edu).
Prerequisite: folklore fieldwork course (undergraduate or graduate).

Students will work in conjunction with grants received from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Indiana Arts Commission
to begin statewide research on folk arts in Indiana in January 1999. The
first weeks of the class will be devoted to preparing for fieldwork
through reading about folk arts, reviewing public folklore work from other
states, discussing strategies, and forming teams, as appropriate.
Following this preparatory period, students will work in the surrounding
counties of Bloomington, making contacts, gathering information, doing
slide documentation about folk arts and artists. Students will be able to
choose areas of specialization, if they wish. The last few sessions will
be devoted to an analysis and write-up of results. Guest speakers,
including Erin Roth, the Program Manager for the Indiana Folk Arts Survey,
will visit the class periodically.

Class times will accommodate time-off for fieldwork. Students will be
required to:  1) complete short writing assignments, based on readings; 2)
keep a field journal, to be shared weekly; 3) make a generally specified
number of field contacts and maintain a database record of those contacts,
to be handed in weekly; and 4) write a final assessment of the class
experience. The class is intended primarily as an opportunity for students
to practice identifying and documenting folk arts and to provide useful
results for the proposed statewide folk arts research. There will be
opportunities for undergraduate-graduate mentoring.

Readings will include, at a minimum, Henry Glassie, The Spirit of Folk
Art; Dell Hymes, "Folklore's Nature and the Sun's Myth,"; Suzi Jones,
Oregon Folklore; Willard Moore, Circles of Tradition; Michael Owen Jones,
Exploring Folk Art; Gerald Pocius, "Art"; Dorothy Noyes, "Group"; various
folk arts catalogs and monographs of folk artists.

Fulfills a COAS Arts and Humanities, Traditions and Ideas distribution
requirement.