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Honors for Folk Artists: Eleven individual folk artists and a husband-and-wife team named by the National Endowment for the Arts as 1990 recipients of National Heritage Fellowships will be honored in Washington today and Thursday. The honorees today will receive Master Traditional Artists certificates heralding them for “shaping our artistic traditions and preserving the cultural diversity of the United States.” The artists will then give a free public concert and craft presentation--hosted by newsman Charles Kuralt--on Thursday at George Washington University. The recipients hail from 10 states and Puerto Rico and include Natividad Cano, a Mexican mariachi player from Monterey Park.