Jersey Shore Folklife Center
Demonstrator Schedule | Meet our Artists | Adult and Children’s Classes
The Jersey Shore Folklife Center researches, documents, supports and presents the diverse communities and traditions of the Jersey Shore and the Pinelands. The Center provides professional oversight for folk art programs and exhibits at Tuckerton Seaport and manages the artist roster and guest demonstrator schedule, the Folk and Traditional Artist in Residence Program, the Jersey Traditions outreach program and changing artist exhibits in J.C. Parker's workshop.
Through daily demonstrations, educational programs, classes and exhibits the Jersey Shore Folklife Center celebrates the profoundly creative spirit of the region, its traditional arts; and its occupational and recreational folklife.
Jersey Shore Folklife Center Programming Summer 2009
Youth Basket Camp
Instructor: Mary May
Date/Time: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday July 28-30, 2009 10am-2pm Fee: $85 members, $95 nonmembers
Learn the basics of basket weaving with master basket maker Mary May! Each day you will learn to make a new basket, using materials such as reed, paper, and recycled materials. Snacks will be provided; please bring your lunch with you. This class is open to children ages 8-15.
Pre-registration required by July 24, 2009
Pound Fish Basket
Instructor: Mary May
Date/ Time: Saturday, August 8, 2009 10am-5pm
Fee: $60 members/ $70 nonmembers
Step back in time with NJ master basket maker Mary May to recreate a full size 17” pound fish basket. Mary May will guide participants as they recreate this historical basket once was used by
New Jersey ’s pound net fishermen to hold their catch. Bring lunch and weaving tools if you have them. Materials fee of $30 payable to instructor.
Pre-registration required by August 1, 2009.
Blue-wing Teal Carving Class
Instructor: Jode Hillman
Date/Time: Sunday, October 4 and Sunday, October 11, 2009 10-5pm
Fee: $115 members/ $130 nonmembers
Join master carver Jode Hillman for an intensive two day class in which students will learn the methods and techniques needed to carve and paint a
Delaware River style Blue-wing Teal. Students may choose a hen or drake to carve and paint. Price includes materials fee.
Pre-registration required by September 27, 2009
Ongoing throughout the year:
Check in at Boatworks to see Boatbuilder Ron Spodofora and his apprentices as they build historic Barnegat Bay sneakboxes.
Daily decoy carving demonstrations in Jay C. Parker's Decoy Shop and Hurley Conklin's Decoy Shop and boatbuilding demonstrations in Perrine's Boatworks.
Call 609-296-8868 for a full schedule of each day's activities.
Jersey Traditions Outreach Program
Bring history and art alive to your students. Sign up to have an artist come to your classroom!
The Jersey Traditions Outreach Program introduces regional folk arts to children and gives them a chance to learn first-hand from a master the important part these folk arts and skills played in the history of the region and the development of the local culture. Teachers choose from programs on decoys, quilting, basketry, and boat building.
After participating in the Jersey Traditions class, students pose with carver Fred Reitmeyer and display their painted "flattie."
The outreaches were developed to meet New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards for 4th grade. The program includes pre- and post-visit teacher packets and a visit by a local artist. If you would like more information about the Jersey Traditions program, please call 609-296-8868 x 116.
Pickin' on the Porch
Second Sunday of Every Month form 12pm to 5pm
$5.00 Includes Admission to all Seaport Exhibits
Free for Seaport Memebers
Join us on the Seaport grounds for a jam session and get together. Come to pick or just listen. We'll swap songs, tell stories and share homemade goodies. Bluegrass, Country and Old Time Music.
Acoustic instruments only please!
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