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Description: The Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University supports the learning, teaching, research, and outreach of folklorists and students of folklore. With participation from across the colleges of Arts and Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Education and Human Ecology, the Center provides OSU folklorists with a network for cooperation and interdisciplinary dialogue.
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Folklore, Arts , Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Education, Human Ecology
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: The Ohio State University
Publisher: The Ohio State University
Type: Web Archive
Description: Mason's Folklore Studies Program is a leading center for the study of vernacular cultures and the historical, cultural and social context in which these cultures are rooted. The program has a distinguished 35-year history that offers students of all levels opportunities to study the broad range of human expression including narrative, dance, material culture, verbal art, cultural performances, foodways, and sense of place. Our diverse course offerings provide theoretical and historical grounding in the study of folklore with a strong emphasis in writing and ethnographic research methods.
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Dance, Arts , Performance, Foodways, Storytelling
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: George Mason University
Publisher: George Mason University
Type: Web Archive
Description: Advantageously situated within the Department of English with an emphasis on theoretical and writing strategies, the study of folklore at MU offers a unique opportunity for a truly interdisciplinary experience. With associated and affiliated faculty in Religious Studies, Sociology, Classical Studies, Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies, Theater, Art History, African Diaspora Studies, and Romance Languages, just to name a few, and the range of theoretical approaches students can explore increases even more. Folklore itself doesn’t exist in a vacuum: at MU, we believe the study of folklore shouldn’t either.
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Religion, Arts , Classical Studies, Anthropology, Gender, Language, Oral Histories, Performance
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Missouri
Publisher: University of Missouri
Type: Web Archive
Description: Folkvine is an ongoing interdisciplinary partnership project at the University of Central Florida that attempts to place art on the web in a manner that adequately represents select artists and their communities. In other words, the Folkvine Group collaboratively works to artistically tell the stories of selected artists within the context of their community settings.
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Subject: Arts , Storytelling, Community, Crafts
Description: The Maryland State Arts Council is a government sponsored organization that seeks to encourage the citizens of Maryland to appreciate and create art. This is done through grants and programs that look to encourage not-for-profit organizations and emerging artists to produce art that helps define culture for Maryland. The website for Maryland State Arts Council builds a bridge between the arts of Maryland and the people of Maryland. This site showcases education in the arts of Maryland to allow for educators to incorporate the arts in their classroom. The artists section displays the people from around the state that makes Maryland a cultural hub.
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Subject: Maryland, Maryland State Arts Council, Arts , Research Grants, Art Education, Folklife, Community arts projects
Description: The mission of the Illinois Arts Council Agency is to build a strong, creative, and connected Illinois through the arts and they attempt to accomplish this through government means. The council is governed by up to twenty-one private citizens chosen by the governor for their commitment to the arts. The council provides programs, technical assistance, and ensures the responsible and impactful distribution of all funds. The Illinois Arts Council Agency also looks to support Illinois’ arts sector, advance arts education, foster creativity, and encourage working artists.
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Subject: Arts , Grants, Government Departments, Art Education, Education, Educational Endowments, Folk Dancers, Folk Music, Folk Artists
Description: The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts is charged by the state legislature to stimulate public interest and participation in the arts and to serve as the liaison to the state arts community. The major tasks that the RISCA are responsible for include stimulating the growth of the state’s arts and the public’s participation in them, survey and assess the needs of the arts state-wide, provide educational opportunities in the arts, and actively support and encourage the expansion of the state’s cultural resources. The vision of The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts is for the all the people of Rhode Island to have an opportunity to participate in the arts, where the arts contribute to the social, economic, and educational well-being of the state, and where the arts are valued by all Rhode Islanders as an integral part of life.
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Subject: Rhode Island, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Arts , Research Grants
Description: The Arts Center of Cannon County looks to provide the arts to the under served population of 12,000 in Cannon County. This center uses the principles of self-sustainability, fiscal responsibility, and social entrepreneurship. The Center was established in 1980 and looks to educate the people of Cannon County through the visual and performing arts.
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Subject: Arts , Arts Center of Cannon County, Education, Performing Arts, Performing Arts Centers
Description: The Goucher College M.A. in Cultural Sustainability brings together knowledge from anthropology, history, folklore, ethnomusicology, communications, business and management, linguistics, and activism to teach students how to effect positive, community-driven change in the cultures they care about most-whether it be an African village, an American inner-city neighborhood, a remote tribe in Asia, or a threatened public space just down the street. The discipline of cultural sustainability can be and will be applied wherever valued ways-of-life are at risk.
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Subject: Folklore, Post-Secondary Education, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Language, Arts , Globalization
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: Goucher College
Publisher: Goucher College
Type: Web Archive
Description: The mission of the Iowa Arts Council is to enrich the lives of Iowans through the arts as well as recognize that the arts are essential to the quality of life for the people of Iowa. The Arts Council accomplishes this goal by offering scholarships, awards, and grants to artists that come from or live in the state of Iowa.
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Subject: Iowa, Folk Art, Arts , Education, Educational Endowments, Art--Awards
Description: The Louisiana Folklife Program, within the Division of the Arts, is designed to identify, document, conserve, and present the folk cultural resources of Louisiana. Folklife includes living traditions learned informally over time within ethnic, regional, occupational, and family groups.
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Subject: Folklife, Louisiana, Folk Art, Arts , Crafts, Language, Music, Film, Oral Histories, Traditions
Description: The Mississippi Cultural Crossroads is the arts agency for Port Gibson and Claiborne County, Mississippi. The programming that the Mississippi Cultural Crossroads makes the focal point of its programming the people who work and live in Claiborne County. This rural area is benefited from the arts programs of quilting and performing arts. The goals of this program include bringing together skilled professional artists and community members, to develop and enhance the forms of expression present in the community, and find ways to create economic development through the arts.
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Subject: Mississippi, Quiliting, Performance Art, Families, Arts , Arts Administration, Rural
Description: The mission of the New England for the Arts is to build connections among artists, arts organizations, and funders powering the arts to energize communities in New England, the nation, and the world. This program was established with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in an effort to strengthen the arts on a regional level. The programs that NEFA looks to sponsor have a regional, national, and international scope that looks to build a stronger and more dynamic art community in the New England region.
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Subject: New England, Arts , New England Foundation for the Arts, Performing Arts, Dance, Native American, Publications
Creator: New England Foundation for the Arts
Publisher: New England Foundation for the Arts
Type: Web Archive
Description: The Northwest Folklife Festival spotlights traditional arts across the worlds of dance, art, and storytelling. This festival is a major focal point for many traditional and ethnic performers in the Northwest area. The four-day festival features artists that vary from hip-hop emcees, Irish cloggers, Bluegrass fiddlers, and West African dancers. This festival is a great asset to the folklife community of the Northwest.
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Subject: Folklife, Folk festivals, Northwest American, Culture, Music, Dance, Arts , Folk arts
Description: The Kule Folklore Centre aspires to become the most important centre for the study of Ukrainian culture outside of Ukraine. Five strategic priorities have been identified which will be prominent in the Centre's profile: • teaching undergraduate and graduate programs • developing internet materials, including course delivery and resource banks • conducting fieldwork and maintaining a growing archive • reaching out to the community with publications and by other means • supporting researchers and students with scholarships and assistantships
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Folklore, Cultural Studies, Arts , Traditions, Anthropology, Ethnography
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Alberta
Publisher: University of Alberta
Type: Web Archive
Description: The Virginia Folklife Program is dedicated to the documentation, presentation, and support of Virginia’s rich cultural heritage. This idea of Virginia’s folklife refers to those “arts of everyday life” that reflect a sense of traditional knowledge and connection to community. This program looks to incorporate fieldwork, preservation of folklife and folk arts, and helping communities throughout Virginia preserve their own cultural traditions. The Virginia Folklife Program completes these goals by receiving funding from Virginia’s Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Subject: Fieldwork (Educational method), Folklore, Folklife, Apprenticeship, Virginia, Folklife specialists, Arts , Folk Art, National Endowment for the Arts
Creator: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Publisher: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Type: Web Archive
Description: WACD is defined by a dynamic interdisciplinary approach that encourages intercultural literacies and repertoires, including and transcending geography, ethnicity, class, and other distinctions of identity. WACD is designed for self-motivated students who want to study the arts in global and local contexts.
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Arts , Dance, Cultural Studies
Description: The Maine Arts Commission was created by the state of Main to encourage and stimulate public interest and participation in the cultural heritage and cultural programs of the state. This Commission shall also expand the state’s cultural resources and encourage and assist freedom of artistic expression for the well-being of the arts. The Maine Arts Commission looks to support programs and partnerships that engender a cooperative environment within the arts field that results in more efficient delivery of programs and service as well as programs that build a broad support base for the arts by increasing local capacity for arts-making and the presentation of the arts. The Commission completes these goals by sponsoring art shows, providing grants to artists, and utilizing media outreach to give the artists a stage.
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Subject: Outreach Programs, Social Media, Arts , Art Appreciation, Educational Endowments, Newsletters, Folk Art, Performing Arts, Public Arts, Grant Proposals, Directories
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