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Open Folklore Web Archive

Collected by: Indiana University Web Collections

Archived since: Sep, 2011

Description:

The Open Folklore Web Archive is a growing curated collection of websites relevant to the study of folklore to ensure that dependable website information about folklore will always be available. Our collection emphasizes the websites of academic folklore departments and programs, and of public-sector and independent folklore organizations.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Folklore

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Title: Missouri Folk Arts Program

URL: http://maa.missouri.edu/mfap/

Description: The Missouri Folk Arts Program is a division of the Missouri Arts Council and is administered by the Museum of Art and Archeology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. This program builds cross-cultural understanding by documenting, conserving and presenting Missouri’s living folk arts and folklife in collaboration with the citizens of Missouri. This program receives support from the Missouri Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the University of Missouri, and the MU Museum of Art and Archeology. MFAP also looks to expand education about folk arts and folk life and provides grants to encourage this expansion of understanding as well as an internship to encourage students and their interest in folk life.

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Subject:   Folk Art Post-Secondary Education Community Scholars,  Folk Life ,  Research Grants

Title: Louisiana Folklife Center at Northwestern State University

URL: http://www.nsula.edu/folklife/

Description: The Louisiana Folklife Center at Northwestern State University was established in 1976 and has been involved in folklife programs of public interest ever since being formed. This Center is a research facility that coordinates the Natchiotches/NSU Folklife Festival and serves as an archival repository for many folklife materials. It houses artist and subject files, audio recordings, and video tapes. It has also amassed a collection of periodicals, books, and photographic images. This center also receives financial support from the Louisiana State Arts Council, Division of the Arts, Office of Culture Development, Department of Culture, Recreation, and Travel as well as the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Subject:   Educational Endowments Lectures,  Folk Life ,  Folklore Folk Music Folk Art Folk Dance Archives

Title: Traditional Arts in Upstate New York

URL: http://www.tauny.org/

Description: The Traditional Arts in Upstate New York is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to showcasing the folklife, folk arts, and culture of the upper counties of New York state. TAUNY does this by preserving, promoting, and collecting the arts that come from the people of this section of the state of New York. This organization is dedicated to helping people appreciate and understand the traditions and local culture of the people of North Country.

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Subject:   New York Folk Art Culture Folk Culture Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. North Country (N.Y.),  Folk Life

Title: The University of Maine - Maine Folklife Center

URL: http://www.umaine.edu/folklife/

Description: The Maine Folklife Center, sponsored by the University of Maine, looks to promote, preserve, research, teach about, engage communities, and provide public programming in the vernacular arts and culture of Maine and the Maritime Provinces. The Folklife Center also offers a Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History that looks to preserve the oral histories of those who have lived in this area of Maine as well as artifacts of the culture that exists there. The Folklife Center also provides students at University of Maine with an opportunity to complete a minor concentration in folklore and provides them with hands on experience of research.

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Subject:   Folk Life ,  Research Folk Festivals Preservation Post-Secondary Education Folklife Archives Oral Histories

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