Before moving to Kansas City I spent my time on Folklore and Folkart

Grants National Endowment for the Arts --Director Woodworking documentation Smithsonian Institution --Fieldwork Folk Festival,Washington, D.C. Folklife Institute of Central Kansas --Research at the Nordiska Museet , Sweden Kansas Folk Arts Apprenticeship --Interviewer Storytelling Mid-America Arts Alliance --Facilitator for Visiting Visual Artists Kansas Committee for the Humanities --Administrator for Dr. Michael O. Jones visitation Kansas Committee for the Humanities --Director Develop Slide Show National Endowment for the Arts --Director Folk Art Documentation _______________________________________________________ Publications Dec. 1995 Country Living Holiday ----Dec. 1995 Victorian Homes Dec.1994 Country Living 1992/6 Hemslöjden --1992/Fall Sweden & America 1991/5 Hemslöjden --Dec.1991 Scandinavian Review --1991/4 Hemslöjden 1990/6 Hemslöjden --1990 The Clarion --Fall 1990 Mid-America Folklore Journal May 1990 Slides for Harvard Center for Religious Studies Director of the Folklife Institute of Central Kansas for 5 years. It still exists on line -- http://www.FolklifeInstitute.com _______________________________________________________ Presentations "Ljuskrona in the Midwest" with Slides ---Oct. 1996 Missouri Folklore Society "Politeness, Folk Art and Skåne Geese" Keynote Speaker ---May 1994 Swedish Council of America "Reverse Painted Glass Tech." with Slides ---Oct. 1993 Missouri Folklore Society "Sense of Place" with Slides ---Feb. 1992 Kansans of Color Conference "A Remnant Folk Art Object" with Slides ---May 1990 Institutet for Folklivsforsking, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden "Woodcarving in a Swedish American Village" with Slides ---June1989 Center for Folklore and Mythology Univ. of Calif. at Los Angeles _______________________________________________________