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Lynn Martin Graton, Traditional Arts Coordinator
As Traditional Arts Coordinator, Lynn Martin Graton administers a statewide program to support and document NH traditional and folk arts. In 1998, she co-curated the NH program of the 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The following year, she curated the expanded re-creation in Hopkinton, known as the NH Folklife Festival, which took place in 2000.
Previously Lynn had been the Folk Arts Coordinator for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. While there, she served as co-curator for the Hawaii presentation at the 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and was subsequently Festival Director for Hawaii’s restaging in 1990. Through both these positions, Lynn acquired extensive experience in fieldwork, photography, festival management, and publishing.
Lynn studied oriental art history at Sophia International University in Tokyo, Japan and earned a BA in Ceramics and Sculpture. In the following year she received certification in Secondary Art Education, from the University of Guam. She received a scholarship from the East-West Center Research Institute of the University of Hawaii to pursue her masters in Pacific Island Studies which she completed with an emphasis in Pacific Art History. She also completed advanced course work in ceramics and fiber arts and has exhibited her traditional and contemporary work. To further refine her craft work, Lynn studied with Japanese potters in Japan and learned a variety of traditional basketry and floral techniques from master weavers from the islands of Palau, Yap, Pohnpei, Fiji, Samoa, and Tahiti.
Lynn has reviewed grant applications as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. She also served on the review panel for the 2003 National Heritage Fellowship Awards. She has consulted for the Peabody Salem Museum; the Kona Historical Museum in Kailu-Kona, HI; the Enfield Shaker Museum and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and Arts.
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