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FOLKSTREAMS: Staff, Advisors, and Consultants.
STAFF:
TOM DAVENPORT (FOLKSTREAMS DIRECTOR) is an independent
filmmaker and film distributor living in Delaplane,
Virginia. He was graduated from Yale University, went to
Hong Kong with a Yale program to teach English in New Asia
College, and spent several years in Taiwan studying
Chinese language and culture. He began work in film with
documentary filmmakers Richard Leacock and Don Pennebacker
in New York and made his first independent film in 1969 on
the Chinese martial art of T'ai Chi. In 1970 he
returned home to rural Virginia and started an independent
film company (www.davenportfilms.com) with his wife,
co-producer and designer, Mimi Davenport. They are best
known for a series of live action American adaptations of
traditional folktales in series called "From the
Brothers Grimm". The last film in that series Willa:
An American Snow White (www.pbs.org/willa) is their first
feature length film and the winner of the Andrew Carnegie
Award from the American Library Association for "Best
Children's Film of 1998." With the University of
North Carolina Curriculum in Folklore and Daniel
Patterson, he has directed and produced a series of
folklife documentaries that include The Shakers 1974, Born
for Hard Luck (1976), Being a Joines: A Life in the Brushy
Mountains (1980), A Singing Stream: A Black Family
Chronicle (1986), The Ballad of Frankie Silver (1998),
When My Work Is Over: The Life and Stories of Louise
Anderson (1998), and Remembering the High Lonesome (2003)
MIMI DAVENPORT (FINANCIAL MANAGER, ARTISTIC DESIGNER) Mimi
Davenport is a Fine Arts graduate of Cornell University.
She and her husband Tom Davenport founded Davenport Films
in 1971. Their collaborative work to date includes eleven
dramatic interpretations of traditional tales for
children. She acted as designer and artistic director for
these films, which have received top awards from the
American Film Festival (three blue ribbons and one red
ribbon), the San Francisco, Sinking Creek, Chicago,
Athens, Houston, and Atlanta Film Festivals, CINE, and
others. Their last fairytale film Willa: An American Snow
White is a full-length feature with period customs and
sets. It won the 1998 Carnegie Medal from the American
Library Association for "Best Children's
Film" of the year. Mimi Davenport also designed the
PBS web site that accompanied the film.
STEVE KNOBLOCK (DATABASE AND ADMINISTRATION DESIGNER) is
an independent website consultant and developer of website
applications living in Arlington, Virginia. Steve has been
hired to develop the Folkstreams MySQL database. Since
1995 he has continuously operated an extensive website,
City Gallery, devoted to the study of historical gallery
photographers and their works, nineteenth-century social
use of photographs and help and encouragement to family
historians seeking to rediscover their family photographs
and create narrative histories based on their discoveries.
He developed an online photo album system for sharing
photographs on his site, which was released as open source
software. This software has been used by various sites
including the Army Corp of Engineers Navigation Database.
Currently develops and maintains a website, phphelp.com
devoted to providing technical help to web application
programmers developing database driven websites using PHP
and other open source tools. Since 1996 he owned and
administrated an email discussion list on family history
and antique photographs, attempting to bring together
archival experts with those most in need of help
preserving their individual family photo collections. The
list continues as the GenPhoto list on Yahoo Groups.
Occasionally served as temporary list administrator for
the original history of photography email discussion
group, PhotoHst, operated by Richard Pearce Moses email
discussion group hosted at Arizona State University (now
defunct). Also in 1996 developed custom software to make
subscription management for this list easy to use by
members from anywhere through their web browser. He
consults on database driven website development for small
business and, indirectly, for non-profit clients.
FOLKSTREAMS COMMITTEE:
JOEY BRACKNER (COMMITTEE CHAIR) is the coordinator of the
Alabama State Council on the Arts Folklife Program. He did
his undergraduate work at the University of Alabama in
Anthropology and received his MA from the University of
Texas in Folklore and Geography. His publications include
"Elder Benjamin Lloyd and his 'Hymn
Book'" and "The 'Primitive Hymns:'
Descriptions of Extant Editions" in Benjamin
Lloyd's Hymn Book: A Primitive Baptist Song Tradition,
ed. Joyce Cauthen (Birmingham: Alabama Folklife
Association, 1999, "Made in Alabama: Alabama Folk
Pottery and Its Creators" in Made In Alabama: A State
Legacy, an exhibition catalog edited by Bryding Adams
(Birmingham Museum of Art, 1995), and "An Overview of
19th Century Alabama Tombstones and their Makers" in
Southern Quarterly, 31, No. 2 (Winter 1993). He
co-produced the 1989 film Unbroken Tradition: Jerry
Brown's Pottery (1989), and edited and co-produce the
CD and book "Spirit of Steel": Music of the
Mines, Railroads and Mills of the Birmingham District
(Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, 1999). He is
the current editor of Tributaries: Journal of the Alabama
Folklife Association.
ELIZABETH BARRET is a film/video maker with Appalshop, the
community-based media, arts, and education center in
Whitesburg, Kentucky. She is the producer/director of
Stranger with a Camera, a documentary about the
consequences of image-making that uses the 1967 story of a
filmmaker shot and killed by a local resident in Kentucky
as the basis for exploring issues of media representation.
The video premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and
aired nationally on the PBS series "P.O.V.," the
award-winning showcase for independent non-fiction film.
Her documentary productions allow people to speak for
themselves, telling first-hand accounts of their life
experiences regarding the history of a place (Long Journey
Home [1987]), its culture (Hand Carved [1980] and Quilting
Women [1976]), and social concerns of Appalachia
(Coalmining Women, [1982]). She also collaborated with
Andy Garrison to produce two short films (Fat Monroe
[1990] and Night Ride [1992]), literary adaptations of
stories by Kentucky author Gurney Norman. In 1993
Elizabeth served as project director for an archival
photographic project and curated the NEA-funded exhibit
"Folk Photographer: William 'Pictureman'
Mullins," which toured under the sponsorship of the
Southern Arts Federation. A native of Hazard, Ky., and a
graduate of the University of Kentucky, Barrett has
received the Kentucky Arts Council's Al Smith
Fellowship in Media, an NEA Southeast Media Fellowship,
and a Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia
Fellowship.
BARRY DORNFELD is Director and Associate Professor of the
Communication Program at the University of the Arts,
Philadelphia. He is a documentary filmmaker and sound
recordist, media researcher, and educator. His documentary
work, which has been shown on public television and won
awards at festivals and competitions, includes Powerhouse
for God, Gandy Dancers, and Plenty of Good Women Dancers:
African-American Women Hoofers in Philadelphia. Dornfeld
has also published research on media organizations, media
reception and cultural performance, including Producing
Public Television, Producing Public Culture (1998,
Princeton University Press), an ethnography of a PBS
documentary series. Dornfeld also consults for non-profit
organizations. He received his doctorate from the
Annenberg School for Communication and the certificate of
the Anthropology Film Center in New Mexico.
GLENN HINSON, is the current chair of the Curriculum in
Folklore at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
has been actively exploring the expressive worlds of the
South for more than a quarter of a century. Throughout
this period, he has sought to foster public conversations
about cultural tradition and cultural policy, always with
an eye toward broad accessibility and collaborative
presentation. Towards this end, Hinson has organized
festivals and concerts, produced recordings of traditional
music, helped develop museum exhibits, worked in a variety
of public education projects, and served as consultant on
more than fifteen video and film documentaries. He is
currently co-directing the "Curriculum, Music, and
Community" project, a public education initiative
designed to restructure elementary school curricula around
the study of local musics. Much of his current research
centers on African American gospel singing, yielding the
recently published book, "Fire in My Bones."
PAUL JONES is a computer scientist and poet. He also holds
an appointment to faculties of the School of Information
and Library Science, where he teaches about cultural,
legal and technical issues on the Internet, the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication, where he teaches about
virtual communities as well as audio and video on the
Internet. Through a report to the Vice Chancellor for
Information Technology at the University of North
Carolina, he runs one of the original WWW sites in the
world (back to 1992) called ibiblio.org, previously known
as metalab.unc.edu and sunsite.unc.edu. ibiblio.org is
already one of the busiest educational servers on the Net
and has for years been a major distributor of Open Source
software and documentation. Additionally ibiblio.org is
the home to UNC's "Documenting the American
South" project and the Creative Commons project. His
interests and expertise include electronic news,
electronic publishing, collaborative environments and
applications, digital libraries, wide area information
protocols and applications, virtual communities, virtual
reality uses as well as social and legal issues relating
to networked information and access including intellectual
property, first amendment issues, anonymity and
information access. He also has an MFA in poetry from
Warren Wilson College and his work has received The
Carolina Quarterly Poetry Prize and prizes from Southern
Humanities Review, Hellas, and others.
BEVERLY B. PATTERSON is a Folklife Specialist at the North
Carolina Arts Council in Raleigh, where she researches and
documents the state's traditional artists and culture,
administers a grants program and grant-supported projects
in cultural tourism, and consults on a wide variety of
public folk arts projects. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural
Anthropology with a Folklore minor from UNC-Chapel Hill.
She has served co-editor for Film and Videotape Reviews
for the Journal of American Folklore and has consulted on
films in the "American Traditional Culture
Series" produced jointly by Tom Davenport Films and
the UNC Curriculum in Folklore. With Wayne Martin and
Daniel Patterson she edited a Smithsonian Folkways CD
entitled Doug and Jack Wallin: Family Songs and Stories
from the North Carolina Mountains (1995). In 1995 the
University of Illinois Press published her book The Sound
of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist
Churches, and its accompanying cassette of documentary
recordings. She is the editor of the Cultural Institutions
Section of the Encyclopaedia of Appalachia, to be
published by the University of Tennessee Press.
DANIEL W. PATTERSON is a Kenan Professor Emeritus of
English and former chair of the Curriculum in Folklore at
UNC-Chapel Hill, and a Fellow of the American Folklore
Society. He has taught courses in "British and
American Folksong" and "Folklore in the
South," is a founder of the Southern Folklife
Collection in the UNC library, and has published ten books
(including The Shaker Spiritual, Sounds of the South,
Diversities of Gifts, and Arts in Earnest), three sound
recordings, and articles on American folklore. He and his
wife Beverly Patterson served as Film Review Editors for
the Journal of American Folklore from 1991-1993, and he
has collaborated with Tom Davenport on five folklife
documentary films. In 1997-98 he was a Fellow at the
National Humanities Center, and had a residency in 1999 at
the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and
Conference Center. The University of North Carolina Press
in 2000 published his book A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon
and Stories of Frankie Silver, which grew out of his
collaboration with Tom Davenport on the video The Ballad
of Frankie Silver. Patterson is at work on a book about
early Presbyterian grave markers in the Carolinas and
Pennsylvania.
TOM RANKIN is Director of the Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke University, where he teaches courses in
documentary studies and photography. A photographer,
filmmaker, and folklorist, Rankin has been documenting and
interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years.
Formerly Associate Professor of Art and Southern Studies
at the University of Mississippi and Chair of the Art
Department at Delta State University, he was educated at
Tufts University, the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, and Georgia State University. A native of
Kentucky, he has published numerous articles and reviews
on photography and southern culture. He co-produced two
documentary record albums, "Great Big Yam
Potatoes": Anglo-American Fiddle Music from
Mississippi (and Free Hill: A Sound Portrait of a Rural
Afro-American Community. He is the co-director and
co-producer of the film documentary film Powerhouse for
God. He has curated a number of exhibitions, among them
"Maggie Lee Sayre: A Pictorial Narrative of a River
Life" and "Revealing Visions: African-American
Mississippi Artists." His photographs have been
published widely numerous magazines, journals, and books,
and he has exhibited throughout the country. In 1991 he
was awarded the Susan B. Herron fellowship in the visual
arts from the Mississippi Arts Commission. His books
include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi
Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of
Arts and Letters Award for Photography, Deaf Maggie Lee
Sayre': Photographs of a River Life (1995), and
Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain
(1997). He recently served as a curator for the
Mississippi Delta program at the Smithsonian's 1997
Festival of American Folklife and is currently writing a
book about contemporary life in the Mississippi Delta.
SHARON R. SHERMAN is the director of the Folklore Program
at the University of Oregon and Professor of English. She
holds a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University and a
Master's degree in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA.
Most of her published work has concentrated on the
relationship between film and folklore, and perceptions
about folklore as revealed by filmmakers and folklorists.
She teaches Introduction to Folklore, Film and Folklore,
Folklore Fieldwork, Film and Video Production for Folklore
Fieldwork, American folklore, Narrative Theory, American
Popular Culture, the History of Folklore Theory and
Research, and other courses. Her students have produced a
number of films that have had local success on Oregon
Public Broadcasting and elsewhere. Professor Sherman is a
consultant on various arts and humanities projects, and
lectures on a variety of subjects for the Oregon Council
for the Humanities Chautauqua program. The topics range
from Oregon folklore, to analyses of ethnicity in America,
and to interpretations of documentary films from across
the country. Sherman has served on the Executive Board of
the American Folklore Society and is currently the Film
and Videotape Review Editor for the Journal of American
Folklore. She has produced a number of films, including
Kid Shoes; Tales of the Supernatural; Passover, A
Celebration; Kathleen Ware, Quiltmaker; and Spirits in the
Wood. In addition to numerous articles, she is the author
of Chainsaw Sculptor: The Art of J. Chester Armstrong
(1995), a book that grew out of her video fieldwork. Her
recently released book Documenting Ourselves: Film, Video,
and Culture (1998), is the first in-depth study of
folklore films as a genre of documentary.
JEFF TITON received his B.A. from Amherst College and his
M.A. (in English) and Ph.D. (in American Studies) from the
University of Minnesota, where he studied ethnomusicology
with Alan Kagan, writing his dissertation on blues music.
He has done fieldwork on religious folk music, blues, and
old-time fiddling, with grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts and fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Humanities. For two years he was the guitarist in
the Lazy Bill Lucas Blues Band, a group that appeared in
the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. The author or editor of
five books, including Early Downhome Blues, which won the
ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, he is also a documentary
photographer and filmmaker. Among his films are Powerhouse
for God (with Barry Dornfeld and Tom Rankin) and Albert
Collins. In 1991 he wrote a hypertext-multimedia computer
program on old-time Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport that
is regarded as a model for weblike interactive computer
representations of people making music. From 1990 to 1995
he was editor of Ethnomusicology, the Journal of the
Society for Ethnomusicology. His teaching began at Tufts
University, where he was assistant professor of English,
then associate professor of English and music. Since 1986
he has been professor of music and director of the Ph.D.
program in music (ethnomusicology) at Brown.
ALLEN TULLOS is Associate Professor of American Studies in
the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory
University and the co-chair of the American Studies
Program, teaching both undergraduate and graduate
students. His Ph.D. is in American Studies (1985) from
Yale University. He also has an M.A. in Folklore from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For the past
eighteen years, he has served as editor of Southern
Changes, the quarterly journal of the Southern Regional
Council, the South's oldest interracial organization.
In the summer of 1998 Tullos was selected to participate
in the Culpeper Faculty Seminar at Emory in order to
develop a web-based curriculum project. He currently teach
a course entitled "American Routes: Tradition and
Transformation of American Musical Cultures" relying
almost exclusively on server-based materials. He also
manages the web site for the "American Routes"
radio program, syndicated on Public Radio International
(americanroutes.com). He is the author of Habits of
Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the
Carolina Piedmont (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1989). Habits of Industry received the
Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical
Association as the year's outstanding book in the
field of Southern History. In 1993 Tullos produced and
directed Tommie Bass: A Life in the Ridge and Valley
Country, a video biography of the life and times of an
Appalachian herbalist and storyteller. He worked with Tom
Davenport and Daniel Patterson as co-producer and sound
recordist for the 1986 documentary film A Singing Stream:
A Black Family Chronicle, fourth film in the
"American Traditional Culture Series" produced
jointly by Davenport Films and the Curriculum in Folklore
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
STEVEN M. WEISS is the director of the Southern Folklife
Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. His education included a major in Music Production
and Engineering at Berklee College of Music, a B.S. in
Audio Technology in 1991 from The American University in
Washington, D.C., and a Master of Information and Library
Studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Before coming to UNC his work experience included serving
as Archives Assistant for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,
Intern at the Archive of Folk Culture in the Library of
Congress, Program Assistant at Northwest Folklife in
Seattle, Archives Technician for the Motion Picture, Sound
and Video Branch of the National Archives and Records
Administration, and Librarian/Assistant Library Manager
for CNN in Washington, D.C. Steve is also a member of the
Folkstreams committee.
WILLIAM H. WIGGINS, JR. is the Acting Chair of the
Department of Afro-American Studies and Professor of
Afro-American Studies and Folklore at Indiana University,
Bloomington, where he teaches courses in
"Afro-American Folklore," "American
Folklore," "Folklore and Literature," and
"the American Folk Hero." He is a Fellow of the
American Folklore Society, Trustee of the Library of
Congress' American Folklife Center, editorial board
member of Southern Folklore and The Arkansas Review: A
Journal of Delta Studies, and former President of The
Association of African and African American Folklorists.
His publications include Jubilation!: African American
Celebrations in the Southeast (Columbia, S.C.: McKissick
Museum, University of South Carolina, 1993), Joe Louis:
American Folk Hero (Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa
Educational Foundation, 1991), and O Freedom!:
Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations (Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1987). In addition to
serving as either a consultant or a participant in
numerous folklore documentary films, the award winning PBS
Series, Keep Your Eyes On the Prize, and History Channel
productions, Wiggins has produced, with a major National
Endowment for the Arts, Folk Art Film Grant, two folklore
documentary films: In the Rapture, a sixty minute
documentary of a religious drama (1978) and The Rapture
Family, a thirty minute companion film that interviewed
the cast regarding the origins and cultural meaning of the
drama. Wiggins was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim
Fellowship in 1988. He is currently writing a folk
biography of Joe Louis, the former heavyweight boxing
champion, for the University of Illinois Press.
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANTS:
GRACE AGNEW is an Associate University Librarian for
Digital Library Systems is a data architect and metadata
specialist at Rutgers University. She consults with large
organizations and consortia on data-driven digital library
architectures. She has worked with the Association of
Moving Image Archivists as the architect of their
forthcoming portal, Moving Image Collections, the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Indiana
University's Variations 2 project, among others. She
served as pro bono consultant for the New Jersey State
Library and designed the New Jersey Digital Highway.
PADDY BOWMAN specializes in developing teacher training
and multimedia teaching resources in folklore and
ethnography. With funding from the National Endowment for
the Arts, she has coordinated the National Network for
Folk Arts in Education for over ten years. She serves on
the steering committee of the Arts Education Partnership,
directs several summer teacher institutes, and is adjunct
professor in a Lesley University education master's
program offered in over 20 states. Among her recent
publications are articles in Language Arts and a
forthcoming issue of the Journal of American Folklore. She
was lead writer for the extensive web-based guide to
folklore and fieldwork, Louisiana Voices
(www.louisianavoices.org), which is in public domain.
Paddy will develop the outreach to Teachers and the
Elderly for Folkstreams.
TYLER MILLER JOHNSON is a telecommunications systems
analyst with the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. His background is in electrical and computer
engineering, with an emphasis on network transport of real
time data streams, especially audio and video. Tyler is a
founding member of ViDe, the Video Development Initiative,
and is a principle architect for ViDeNet, the developing
global video and voice over IP network. He participates in
the Internet2 Commons, QoS Applications, Voice over IP and
Video Middleware working groups. Tyler is a member of
ITU-T Study Group 16, setting international standards for
video and voice over IP, and was the editor for the H.350
series of 'Directory Services Architecture for
Multimedia Conferencing' standards.
GARY MARCHIONINI is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of
Information Science in the School of Information and
Library Science at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. His Ph.D. is from Wayne State University in
mathematics education with an emphasis on educational
computing. His research interests are in information
seeking in electronic environments, digital libraries,
human-computer interaction, digital government and
information technology policy. He has had grants or
contracts from the National Science Foundation, U.S.
Department of Education, Council on Library Resources, the
National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, the
Kellogg Foundation, and NASA, among others. He was the
Conference Chair for ACM Digital Library '96
Conference and program chair for ACM-IEEE Joint Conference
on Digital Libraries in 2002. He is editor-in-chief for
ACM Transactions on Information Systems and serves on the
editorial boards of a dozen scholarly journals. He has
published more than eighty articles, chapters, and
conference papers in the information science, computer
science, and education literatures. He founded the
Interaction Design Laboratory at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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