Becarios Sostenedores de Tradiciones Vivas

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The Missouri Folk Arts Program has chosen the recipients of the inaugural Missouri Living Traditions Sustainer Fellowship, the state’s newest award to recognize the artistic excellence and lifetime achievement of living traditional artists in the Show Me State. The fellowships honor these individuals’ deep-rooted contributions to their art forms and to the vibrant communities in Missouri that the artists support.

An independent panel of traditional arts and community specialists selected the honorees from a competitive pool of public nominations. This new project is made possible through grant funds received from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Missouri Arts Council, with support from the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri.

The 2023 honorees will be recognized in a ceremony from 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. at Compass, Inc.,1107 University Avenue, in Columbia, Mo., on May 21, 2023.

Living Traditions Sustainer Fellowships are modeled on the National Heritage Fellowships presented since 1982 by the NEA. For Missouri’s fellowship, Missouri Folk Arts Program uses the NEA’s definition of folk and traditional arts:

The folk and traditional arts, which include crafts, dance, music, oral traditions, visual arts, and others, are those that are learned as part of the cultural life of a community whose members share a common ethnic heritage, cultural mores, language, religion, occupation, or geographic region. These traditions are shaped by the aesthetics and values of a shared culture and are passed from generation to generation, most often within family and community through observation, conversation, and practice.

Missouri’s 2023 Living Traditions Sustainer Fellows are:

Kenny Applebee, Old-time rhythm guitarist of Mexico, Mo. Kenny Applebee is widely recognized as a mainstay of old-time music in Missouri. He has “backed” fiddlers on his rhythm guitar for decades at contests, jams, concerts, dances, and the Bethel Youth Fiddle Camp. Applebee picked up the guitar at age 14 and credits a regional flat picker for teaching “all the chords I needed to know.” As an adult, he got involved in Missouri’s vibrant old-time music community via the Montgomery City Old Threshers Reunion and Fiddle Contest. In addition to a lifelong career in farming, over the years, Applebee has evolved as the “goto” back-up guitarist for numerous fiddlers from multiple generations. His notable honors include invitations to perform in 1988 with Rhonda Vincent and the late Pete McMahan in Hannibal, as well was at the 1991 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the 2010 Centrum Festival of American Fiddle Tunes. He accompanies master fiddler John P. Williams regularly for the Missouri State Museum and Old-time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival. Additionally, Applebee has taught three rhythm guitar apprentices in Missouri’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program between 2017 and 2021.

Carmen Sofia Dence,

Folkloric dancer/choreographer/costume maker of St. Louis, Mo.

Carmen Sofia Dence grew up immersed in the traditional Colombian dances of Barranquilla that meld Indigenous, Spanish, and African influences. She has lived in St. Louis, Missouri for over forty years, where she spent decades at Washington University, retiring in 2015 as an Associate Professor of Radiology. She tends to her lifelong passion for dance via Grupo Atlántico St. Louis, the dance troupe she founded in 1995. They perform often at Missouri History Museum, Festival of Nations, and other key events in metro St. Louis. As Missouri Touring Performers through Missouri Arts Council’s directory, Grupo Atlántico has performed around the state and in the Mid-America region. In 2012, Dence founded Dancing Damsels, a troupe of “seasoned seniors” dedicated to artistry and activity for life. She is a previous recipient of the 2022 Missouri Arts Award for Individual Artist; 2019 St. Louis Visionary Award for Outstanding Teaching Artist; and 2019 Anthony B. Ramirez Esperanza Award, among others. Additionally, Dence taught five apprentices since 1994 in Missouri’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.

For more information on the Missouri Folk Arts Program, contact Lisa L. Higgins, director, HigginsLL@missouri.edu, 573-882-6296, https://mofolkarts.missouri.edu/.

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