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This article was originally published in the Beacon Senior News of Western Colorado. Reprinted with permission.

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Greene was thrilled to share her 40-plus years of storytelling experience with Reid, who, she said, “was born to be a storyteller.” During their year together, Greene taught her apprentice to project her voice, smile and gesture while she talks, and mime the actions of the characters in the story.

“That’s what the apprenticeship is all about — passing on what I do to somebody younger,” Greene said. “So that when I’m too old to perform…the skill and the performance will never die.”

Keeping Bulgarian music alive

Preserving Bulgarian folk music is what led Towson University music professor Kalin Kirilov and his son Stanley, 14, to apply for a Folklife Apprenticeship grant.

The Bulgarian-born resident of Phoenix, Maryland, said the apprenticeship helped his American-born son learn more about Bulgarian folk music.

“We established a learning routine of two lessons per week, which significantly advanced Stanley’s performer skills,” Kirilov said. They were also able to buy new professional instruments.

Kirilov, 48, said the program “gave us the time to have this more in-depth, immersive experience in the apprenticeship, which I had myself when I was learning the tradition back in Bulgaria.”

Stanley, who is homeschooled, said the apprenticeship program has made him a better musician. It’s also given him a chance to perform Bulgarian music with his family.

“Dad will usually be playing the accordion; I’ll usually go for percussion. And my sister will usually sing,” said the young musician.

His father said that musicians who know how to play Bulgarian folk music are getting harder to find. “Everybody’s hope…is that more people of Stanley’s age will start learning the tradition.”

The art of Indian printmaking

Indian printmaking was the focus of master artist Trisha Gupta, a Burtonsville resident, and apprentice Daria Parsa, 24, of Laurel, Maryland.

Gupta first became interested in printmaking during a visit to her ancestral home in India. When she discovered that her parents’ family had operated a textile production company, she became intrigued about the traditional dyeing process — which, she said, “was very dif- ferent from what it looks like now.”

Gupta, who took lessons from a master artist in New York, describes her artwork as “a type of Indian printmaking called viscosity printmaking.”

Gupta and Parsa met at the Sandy Spring Museum, which hosted a show of Gupta’s work. Parsa, who has a degree in studio art and art history, was the museum’s exhibition manager. She later became Gupta’s studio assistant for a few months.

Parsa had taken a few printmaking courses in college and wanted to learn more about the Indian tradition.

“I was always thinking about if I wanted to take more classes or just try to teach myself things. Or how I could get more involved with that form? So, this has been a great opportunity for that,” Parsa said.

Parsa found the apprenticeship a good way to hone new skills. “You’re getting one-on-one time [and] you have the funding, too — you can get any supplies you need,” Parsa said.

Gupta believes participating in the Arts Council program is a perfect way to pass down the arts.

“It’s bringing back the apprenticeship tradition, which is age-old,” Gupta said.

To learn more about the Maryland State Arts Council’s Folklife Apprenticeship program, email msac.commerce@maryland.gov or call (410) 767-6555.

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