2025 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Showcase: Craft
- Published: January 17, 2025
Save the date for MAC's Folk Arts Apprenticeship Showcase on Thursday, Feb 27, 2025, at 6:00pm at the Briarwood Arts Center in Jackson!
Join us for artist talks, demonstrations, and a Q & A from our two apprenticeship teams in the craft category: Brian Newman and Justin Mayfield (Apprenticeship in Pottery) and Rhonda Blasingame and Hazel Gaines (Apprenticeship in Quilting).
MAC will be partnering with the Briarwood Arts Center to host the showcase. Please come out and show your support for these artists as they share the work they did during MAC’s Folk Arts Apprenticeship program this year.
The Briarwood Arts Center is located at 614 Briarwood Dr. Jackson, MS 39211.
For more information about the program, please contact MAC Folk & Traditional Arts Director, Maria Zeringue at 601-359-6034 or via email at mzeringue@arts.ms.gov.

Justin Mayfield (left) and Brian Newman (right) working together during one of their apprenticeship meetings.
Additional Info about the Apprenticeship Program:
MAC’s Folk Arts Apprenticeship grants program supports the survival and continued evolution of community-based traditional art forms. During the apprenticeship, the teaching artist passes on specific skills, techniques, and cultural knowledge to the apprentice, who is an emerging artist of the same tradition. Participants are awarded $2,000 to assist with the fees for the teaching artist and other expenses such as travel costs and supplies. To learn more about the program, click here.

Hazel Gaines (left) and Rhonda Blasingame (right) at the S.E.W. meeting space where they completed their apprenticeship.