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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: Rose Center: Council for the Arts

URL: http://rosecenter.org/

Description: The Rose Center Council for the Arts is an organization that is based out of the Rose Center and focuses on folk artists and their works. This center used to be a school and has become the cultural center for Morristown and Hamblen County, Tennessee. The organization puts on a major festival entitled Mount Makins Festival, which focuses on folk arts such as painting, storytelling, and sewing. The Rose Center also houses galleries that feature local artists and folk artists and the exhibits include painting, photography, and student art.

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Subject:   Folk Festivals Education Photography Painting Performing Arts Center Storytelling Folk Artists Performing Arts Centers City Centers Dance

Title: The Warren E. Roberts Museum of Early Indiana Life

URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~wer/

Description: This website focuses on the career of Warren E. Roberts and the folklore that was the passion of his career. The website include information not only about Roberts but folklife in Southern Indiana, information on the IU Folklore Archives, and the ability to visit the virtual museum that was Roberts' dream.

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Subject:   Indiana Folklore History Museum

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: Philadelphia Folksong Society

URL: http://www.pfs.org/

Description: The Philadelphia Folksong Society is dedicated to serving the past, promoting the present and securing the future of folk music and related forms of expression through education, presentation, and participation. This organization was founded in 1957 and offers programs of presentation, engagement, and education throughout Greater Philadelphia and the nation. Many of these programs are focused on the present of folk music and the education around it. Philadelphia Folksong Society promotes and stages the following festivals of note: The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Fall Fling, Spring Thing, and Cabin Fever Festival.

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Subject:   Folk Music Folk Festivals Education Music Education Music Festivals

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