West African Textile Arts
Knoxville, Tennessee
As part of the 2025 Tennessee Arts Commission Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program, Knoxville-based, award-winning textile artist Wokie Massaquoi-Wicks, taught her son, Lahai Alexander Massaquoi-Wicks West African tie-dying, batiking, and mud cloth making. You can learn more about their project on the Tennessee Folklife Program's website. Photographs by Evangeline Mee.
Guitar Making
Sparta, Tennessee
During the 2025 Tennessee Arts Commission Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program, Sparta luthier Butch Hodgkins continued to mentor his apprentice Oscar “Trey” Upchurch III. Read more about their project on the Tennessee Folklife Program website. Photographs by Bradley Hanson.