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Works in Progress 19:2/3. Cover photos. Captions: 20th Anniversary cover

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Row 1 (l-r): Gathering of artists at PFP in the Crawford Dining Room: Dottie Wilkie, Germaine Ingram, Yvette Smalls, Jamie Merwin, Sookyung Oh, Betty Leacraft. Photo: Debora Kodish, 2005. Baba Crowder and John Wilkie at Africamericas Festival. Photo: Tom Morton, c. 1990. Bronius Krokys and Joe Kasinskas, Lithuanian Music Quartet, rehearsing at home. Photo: Debora Kodish, 1989. Koung Peang teaching Khmer drawing to his granddaughter in a PFP Cambodian folk arts education class at the Fleisher Art Memorial. Photo: Jane Levine, 1990. Rosemary Cubas interviewing Zinka Hoxha, with Anula Shetty (sound) and a neighbor, as part of Scribe Video Center's Precious Places project. One of two projects where PFP staff worked with Rosemary and Community Leadership Institute to document and fight eminent domain abuse. Photo: Debora Kodish, 2005.

Row 2 (l-r): Anna Arias and her father Tito Rubio rehearsing flamenco songs. Photo: James Wasserman, 2005. Chamroeun Yin in Cambodian classical dance costume. Photo: Jane Levine 1989. Brian Vile with palms woven by his grandmother Frances Roccia and other family members. Photo: Jan Greenberg, 1987. Leap Koung puts on make-up at a Cambodian New Year celebration. Photo: Tom Morton, c. 1987. Edith Baby Edwards Hunt rehearsing. Photo: Jane Levine, 1992.

Row 3 (l-r): Terrence Cameron with steel drums of his own manufacture. Photo: Tom Morton, 1990. Viewers at PFP's Folk Arts of Social Change exhibition at the Fleisher Art Memorial. Photo: Tom Morton, 1999. Klezmer musician Elaine Watts plays drums at her own wedding, with her father, xylophonist Jacob Hoffman, and others. Photo courtesy Elaine Hoffman Watts. Germaine Ingram and Hortense Allen Jordan confer with musicians at a rehearsal for the PFP production "Stepping in Time". Photo: Tom Morton, 1994. Hortense Allen Jordan, Libby Spencer, Michelle Webster Roberts and other dancers in the finale of "Stepping in Time." Photo: Tom Morton, 1994. Heritage gardener Blanche Epps. Photo: Jerrilyn McGregory 1987.

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Row 1 (l-r): Lois Fernandez at ODUNDE. Photo: Tom Morton, 1991. Students in Oliver Nie's Chinese folk dance class at Asian Americans United, part of the Folklore Project's Folk Arts and Multicultural Education program. Photo: Rodney Atienza, 2000. Students in a South Philadelphia Cambodian folk dance class taught by Leendavy Koung in a procession (trot). Photo: Toni Shapiro-Phim, 2001. South African musician Mogauwane Mahloele. Photo: Jane Levine 1999. Flamenco dancer Anna Rubio. Photo: Toni Shapiro-Phim.

Row 2 (l-r): Lan Fong Lo, a Chinatown resident and gardener, featured in the PFP/AAU documentary video "Look forward and carry on the past." Photo: Barry Dornfeld, 2002. Oliver Nie, Chinese folk dance teacher. Photo: Rodney Atienza 2001. Shu Yuan Li, sixth generation Beijing opera performer, in costume for the opera "The White Snake." Photo courtesy of Ms. Li, 2003. Suzanne Povse, top-class skilled tool-and-die maker and writer. Photo: Debora Kodish. 2005. Lois Fernandez and the women of Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble at ODUNDE, 1991. Liberian dancer Kormassa Bobo. Photo: Toni Shapiro-Phim, 2003.

Row 3 (l-r): Ju-Yeon Ru and the Sori-Mori Korean percussion troupe at New Year. Photo: Debora Kodish, 2002. Skip Burton and Ione Nash. Photo: Tom Morton, 2001. Liberian singer Hawa Moore at a Philly Dance Africa rehearsal. Photo: Tom Morton, 1999. Ayesha Rahim, hat and crown maker and craftswoman. Photo: Debora Kodish, 2005. Homowo festival, Philadelphia. Photo: Ron Tarver, 2002. Dorothy Wilkie at ODUNDE. Photo: Tom Morton, 1999. Arisa Ingram holds someone taken by the spirit at ODUNDE. Photo: Tom Morton, 1999. Nanikha performing group. Photo courtesy of the artists. Sifu Shu Pui Cheung, Aaron Chau and Shuyuan Li, participants in "Walking on Solid Ground" project. Photo: Tze Ming Chau, 2003.

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Rollover images:
Home (door): Photo by Debora Kodish/Philadelphia Folklore Project
About us (board and staff): Photo by Thomas B. Morton
Archives (Eang Mao’s painting): Photo by Bill Westerman
Educators (Chamroeun Yin’s masks): Photo by Rene Marquez
Events (“Tie a yellow ribbon” anti-war protester): Photo by Bill Westerman
Exhibits (Detail of work by Pang Xiong Sirirathasuk Sikoun): Photo by Will Brown
Store (“No war” dollar bill): Photo by Bill Westerman
Hot folk arts issues (Minnie Robinson's embroidered Peace pillow): Photo by Bill Westerman

ABOUT

Staff and associates (http://www.folkloreproject.org/about/people.shtml):
PFP staff and board, clockwise from left: Terrence Cameron, Tom Kramer, Joan Huckstep, Mogauwane Mahloele, Holly Taya Shere, Chamroeun Yin, Nora Lichtash, Mary Yee, Germaine Ingram, Debora Kodish, Deborah Wei, Ruth Cameron. Photo by Thomas B. Morton, 2000

ARCHIVES

Folk artists

Frito Bastien: Portrait photo by Rene Marquez. Images of paintings photo by Will Brown

Kormassa Bobo: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Kenneth “Skip” Burton: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Terrence Cameron: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Sifu Shu Pui Cheung: Photos by Rodney Atienza

Robert Crowder: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Blanche Epps: Photo by Jan Greenberg

Germaine Ingram: Photo by Jane Levine. Used with permission of the Pennsylvania Heritage Affairs Commission

Peache Jarman: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Robert Kenyatta: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Leendavy Koung: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Peang Koung: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Bronius Krokys: Photo by Debora Kodish

Chia Kue: Photo by Teresa Jaynes

Mogauwane Mahloele: Photo by Jane Levine

Eang Mao: Photos by Bill Westerman and Will Brown

Hawa Moore: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Ione Nash: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Oliver Nie: Photo by Rodney Atienza

LaVaughn Robinson: Photo courtesy of LaVaughn Robinson

Pang Xiong Sirirathasuk Sikoun: Portrait photo by Debora Kodish. Images of work photos by Will Brown

Elaine Watts: Photo courtesy Elaine Watts

Dorothy Wilkie: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

John Wilkie: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

Chamroeun Yin: Portrait by Jane Levine. Photos of work by Rene Marquez and Will Brown

EVENTS (http://www.folkloreproject.org/events/index.shtml)

Philly Dance Africa Ga libation: Photo by Thomas B. Morton

EXHIBITS

Folk Arts of Social Change:

Introduction (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/intro.shtml): Photo of Bill and Miriam Crawford’s dining room by Will Brown

Details of work by Frito Bastien, Chamroeun Yin, Blanche Epps, and Don Manuel

Edwin Arocho (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/arocho.shtml): Photo by Elizabeth Sayre

Frito Bastien (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/bastien.shtml): Photo by Will Brown

Unknown lion for lion dance (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/lion.shtml). Installation photo by Will Brown

Blanche Epps (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/epps.shtml): Photos by Will Brown

Mogauwane Mahloele (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/mahloele.shtml): Photo by Jane Levine

Eang Mao (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/mao.shtml): Ah Chey painting photographed by Will Brown

Bud Little Wolf and Don Manuel (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/native.shtml): Carvings installation photograph by Will Brown

Chamroeun Yin (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/yin.shtml): Photographs by Rene Marquez

The People United (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/united.shtml): Installation details from photographs by Will Brown.

Chants (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/chants.shtml): Installation photo by Will Brown

Big Shoes to Fill (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/walking.shtml): Installation photo by Will Brown

Big Shoes quotes (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/quotes.shtml): Photos top to bottom: ACT-UP die-in photo by Teresa Jaynes, Pro-choice demo photo by Harvey Finkle

Freedom is my badge (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/freedom.shtml): Photo of exhibition installation of the Crawford’s dining room by Will Brown

Button collections (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/buttons.shtml): Installation photo by Will Brown

Stories to live by (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/stories.shtml): Installation photos by Will Brown

William Smith’s bolt cutter (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/smith.shtml): Installation photo by Will Brown

Koung Peang’s tror sao (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/koung.shtml): Installation photo by Will Brown

Father Paul Washington’s personal planner (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/fasc/washington.shtml): Installation photo by Will Brown

About the exhibition
Photograph of curator Teresa Jaynes (center): Exhibition photo by Thomas B. Morton

Artists in Exile
All photographs by Thomas B. Morton

Plenty of Good Women Dancers

Introduction (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/plenty/intro.shtml). Details of photos in exhibition, top to bottom: unknown dancer, Edith “Baby Edwards” Hunt, Delores McHarris, Libbby Spencer, unknown dancer, Hortense Allen Jordan, Hortense Allen Jordan. Photos used with permission.

Note that some photo credits appear on pop-up windows in this exhibition.

Edith “Baby Edwards” Hunt (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/plenty/baby.shtml). Photo of Ms. Hunt and Germaine Ingram by Jane Levine, courtesy Pennsylvania Heritage Affairs Commission

Opportunities and expectations (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/plenty/opportunities.shtml). Photograph of Isabelle Fambro by Jane Levine

ODUNDE
All photographs by Thomas B. Morton

Giants, Kings and Celestial Angels

You, Me and Them
(http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/ymt/index.shtml)
All photographs by Thomas B. Morton

Uses of Tradition

Preface (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/uses/index.shtml): Details of hands at work: Frances Roccia, Joseph Termini, Mary Ann Vile, Yola Savastano (for credits, see below)

Introduction (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/uses/intro.shtml): Frances Roccia. Photo by Jan Greenberg

History (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/uses/history.shtml): Yola Savastano and Dorothy Noyes photo by Vicki Valerio

Many inheritances (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/uses/stories.shtml): Details of images: Emmanuel Utti’s painting on an easel photo by Stephanie Kane. Vincent Clerico’s presepio by Will Brown. Yola Savastano beading by Vicki Valerio.

Occupational crafts (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/uses/crafts.shtml): Photo of Samuel Yellin Metalworkers courtesy Clare Yellin

Specialist provisioners (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/uses/traditional.shtml): Photo of Joseph Termini by Will Brown

Festival traditions (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/uses/festival.shtml): Saints Cosmos and Damian procession photo by Patented Photos. Armand Pandola in mummers’ parade, courtesy of Robert Pandola

Woven palms (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/uses/palms.shtml): Photo of Mary Ann Vile by Joe Solowiejczyk

Dressed windows (http://www.folkloreproject.org/exhibits/uses/windows.shtml): Photo by Jan Greenberg