3. Symposium: Driving Student Success through Affordable Course Material (1:43:25)

Date:
2018-03-08
Main contributors:
McDonald, Robert H., Kelmer, Michele, Regoli, Michael, Olds, Kris, Nelson, Carrie, Wagstaff, Steel, Goodner, Mark
Summary:
This symposium explores the connection between course material costs and student success, progression, and retention, and features three experts on affordable course material from the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Kris Olds,Professor of Geography; Carrie Nelson, Director of Scholarly Communication; Steel Wagstaff, Instructional Technology Consultant.

4. Making an Oak Box (13:37)

Date:
2013-08-20
Main contributors:
Jon Kay
Summary:
This documentary was shot and edited by folklorist Jon Kay for the Chipstone Foundation, a research organization that supports the study of American decorative arts. The video features master furniture maker Randall O’Donnell and details the methods used to produce a replica of a Bible box in the Chipstone’s research collection that was originally made in the 1600s.

5. Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker (07:50)

Date:
2015-08-18
Summary:
Folklorist Jon Kay made this short documentary for the exhibition, "Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker." The exhibit explored the work of Viki Graber a willow basketmaker from Goshen, Indiana. Viki learned willow basket weaving at the age of twelve from her father, who was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a 2009 National Heritage Fellow. Where once her family plied their talents to make utilitarian workbaskets, Viki makes baskets for collectors and to sell at art shows and galleries. While using the same tools and methods as her great-grandfather, Viki's keen sense of color and innovative designs have elevated her family's craft to a new aesthetic level. Sponsored by the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences as part of their Fall 2015 Themester @Work: The Nature of Labor on a Changing Planet, the exhibition and the video were on display at the museum from August 18 through December 20, 2015.

6. The Mallet: Making a Maul in a Baiku Yao Community (08:07)

Date:
2018-04-19
Main contributors:
Jon Kay
Summary:
In 2017, folklorist Jon Kay traveled to Southwest China to join a team of researchers from the United States, the Anthropological Museum of Guangxi, and the Nandan Baiku Yao Eco-Museum who were documenting the basket and textile traditions of the Baiku Yao people in Nandan County, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The members of the research team visited a home in Manjiang village to inventory the baskets collected and used by a local family. As the fieldworkers worked photographing and measuring baskets, Mr. Lu Bingzhao came into the house and picked up a mallet, which he showed everyone and then went outside. Kay did not speak Mandarin or the local Baiku Yao dialect, but felt Mr. Bingzhao had something he wanted to show the team, so he followed the man outside and saw him lay the mallet on the trunk of a small felled tree for measurement; Kay realized he was going to make a mallet, so he grabbed a camera and began shooting. Mr. Bingzhao worked as the children played nearby. Neighbors and family members stopped by to visit as they returned home from picking greens. Mr. Bingzhao worked steadily as people came and went. With heavy chops, he used a billhook to quickly remove the excess wood. With the same tool, he then shaved the mallet’s handle smooth, using a pulling motion. Finally, at the end of the video, just as he completes the mallet, he gives it to his daughter-in-law. Technical Note: The video was shot with a Canon 90D camera with a RØDE stereo microphone attached to the camera’s hot-shoe mount.

8. Presidential Address: After the Revolution: Folklore, History, and the Future of Our Discipline (45:37)

Date:
2015-10-17
Main contributors:
Williams, Michael Ann, Turner, Kay
Summary:
More than four decades have passed since the advent of the new folkloristics. Assessments of this revolution tend to narrowly focus on performance theory and not on whether the broader promises of this era have been realized, especially in areas of cross-disciplinary research. This address will look specifically at how attitudes toward historical scholarship have changed within the discipline of folklore and how we have constructed our own disciplinary histories during this postrevolutionary phase. Finally, the address will look to the future and whether we are reconstructing our past in our current graduate training in the discipline.