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Description: The mission of the Alaska Native Heritage Center is to share, perpetuate and preserve the unique Alaska Native culture, languages, traditions and values through celebration and education. The Center does this by promoting the arts and languages of these people through programs in school and at the Center that focus on the culture around these arts and languages. The Center also focuses on preserving the past as well as establishing a clear idea of the present culture of the people in this area.
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Subject: Art Education, Culture, Languages, Education, Folk Culture, Folk Museums, Indigenous Arts, Indigenous People
Description: The South Georgia Folklife Project is an outgrowth of ten years of field documentation and public programs from 1996-2006. This collection that is housed at Valdosta State University includes both published and unpublished materials that document the traditional culture of the southern third of Georgia. Highlights of this collection include online exhibits and a radio archive as well as the practical tool of a finding aid.
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Subject: Folklore, Folklore Libraries, Georgia, Research, Radio Archives, Sacred Harp, Finding Aids, Archives, Folklife Archives
Description: This blog is run by volunteers that wish to provide open access alternatives to anthropological publications. It is the news outlet for the organization where they will notify the public of events and progress within the discipline of anthropology.
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Subject: Anthropology, Open access, Blogs
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: City Lore’s mission is to foster New York City – and America’s – living cultural heritage through education and public programs. They document, present, and advocate for New York City’s grassroots cultures to ensure their living legacy in stories and histories, places and traditions. They work in four cultural domains: urban folklore and history; preservation; arts education; and grassroots poetry traditions. In each of these realms, they see ourselves as furthering cultural equity and modeling a better world with projects as dynamic and diverse as New York City itself.
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Subject: New York, Heritage, Cultural studies, Urban Folklore, Urban History, Education, Traditions, Heritage, Preservation, Poetry
Creator: City Lore
Type: Web Archive
Description: The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (CSUMC) is committed to the languages and cultural traditions of this region's diverse peoples. CSUMC fosters research and the preservation of archival collections, while producing educational and outreach programs for a broad public audience.
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Subject: Folklore, Sound Recordings, Folk Music, Language, Folk Culture, Minnesota, Upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Preservation
Creator: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
Publisher: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
Format: Web Archive
Description: The Folklore Program at the University of Oregon offers perspectives on ethnic, regional, occupational, gender, and other traditional identities of individuals in specific societies. Students study the extent to which tradition continues to enrich and express the dynamics of human behavior throughout the world.
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Folklore, Ethnicity, Cultural Heritage, Popular Culture, Performance, Gender, Film, Religion, Diversity, Arts Administration, Globalization
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Oregon
Publisher: University of Oregon
Type: Web Archive
Description: The department of American Studies at The George Washington University is a nationally recognized program that has award-winning faculty as well as innovative masters and doctoral students who conduct new research in the field. This program focuses on providing the students with the hands on experiences of field research and encourages their new ideas about the culture, history, politics, and religion of America. The program offers bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees as well as interdisciplinary minors.
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Subject: Post-secondary education, American studies and media, Interdisciplinary Studies, Culture, Popular culture, Folklife, Folklore
Creator: The George Washington University
Publisher: The George Washington University
Type: Web Archive
Description: A series of project collection guides highlighting a wealth of ethnographic documentation and public productions generated in the upper Midwestern region since the 1970s.
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Subject: Folklore, Folk Culture, Minnesota, Upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Collection Guides, Documentary, Ethnography
Description: At USC, one can study folklore in various courses, or as part of the new interdisciplinary minor, "Folklore and Popular Culture". The core course: ANTH 333- Forms of Folklore aims to introduce students to the wide variety of folklore from around the world (and from their own lives), and to the basic methods of studying such material. Connected to the course is the USC digital multimedia folklore archive, which connects age-old folklore archiving techniques with cutting-edge technology. The archives is available to the worldwide scholarly community.
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Subject: Folklore, Popular Cutlure, Mythology, Legends, Music, Dance
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Southern California
Publisher: University of Southern California
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: The Folklore Program at the University of North Carolina emphasizes the study of creativity and aesthetic expression in everyday life and the political implications of that expression as it unfolds in contested arenas of culture. The study of folklore focuses attention on those expressive realms that communities infuse with cultural meaning and through which they give voice to the issues and concerns that they see as central to their being. These realms are often deeply grounded in tradition, yet as community self-definitions develop and change in light of shifting social, political, and economic realities, community-based artistry likewise evolves. Folklore thus moves beyond the study of the old and time-honored to explore emergent meanings and cultural forms.
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Subject: Folklore, Academic Program, Post-Secondary Education, North Carolina, Anthropology, Folk Literature
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publisher: University of North Carolina
Type: Web Archive
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Description: The program is nationally recognized and offers an undergraduate minor in Folklore and a Master’s Degree in American Studies with a concentration in Folklore. The Folklore Program provides a flexible and interdisciplinary approach to study, small class sizes, student-centered faculty, and close interaction between faculty and students. Utah State University houses the Fife Folklore Archives, a nationally recognized archive and repository for the papers of the American Folklore Society,
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Archives, Traditions, Oral Histories, Folktales, Folklife, Festivals, Dance
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: Utah State University
Publisher: Utah State University
Type: Web Archive
Description: The dynamic and ever-emergent Folklore Program engages varied comparative and interdisciplinary approaches in a broad range of courses on oral, material, social, and spiritual aspects of African, Middle Eastern, Asian, European, American Indian, North, Central, and South American folklore, on theory and the history of scholarship, and on the public presentation of folklore through archives, exhibits, festivals, media productions, and other modes of representation.
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Subject: Folklore, Post-Secondary Education, Cultural Expression, Oral Histories, Spirituality, Language, Ethnography
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publisher: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Type: Web Archive
Description: FolkOhio was designed by the Folklore program at the Ohio State University as a tool for outreach, research, and teaching as well as being a service to the greater Ohio area. FolkOhio offers a searchable database for the greater Ohio community of educators, students, historians, librarians, scholars, and researchers. FolkOhio seeks to help document and preserve the folklife of Ohio and make it accessible to a wider audience.
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Subject: Folklore, Ohio, Folklife Archives, Higher Education, Ohio State University
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 YouTube Channel for the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.
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Subject: Folklore, Folk Culture, Minnesota, Upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Moving Image Recordings
Description: The YouTube Channel for the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.
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Subject: Folklore, Folk Culture, Minnesota, Upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Moving Image Recordings
Description: The American Studies Program at Penn State Harrisburg integrates perspectives on United States history, culture, and society and represents a vibrant academic field with its own theories, methods, and applications. The Program emphasizes cultural and historical inquiry and the application of American Studies to public policy and heritage --including education, governmental work, museums, cultural agencies, archives, public policy, and communications.
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Folklore, Folk Culture, Ethnography, Cultural Heritage, Popular Culture, Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Age, Performance, Oral Histories
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: Penn State Harrisburg
Publisher: Penn State Harrisburg
Type: Web Archive
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Creator: University of Central Florida
Type: Web Archive
Description: The Kentucky Historical Society was formed in 1836 with the goal of preserving the history of the commonwealth. In 1838, it was chartered as the state society and began to collect items reflecting Kentucky’s history including printed materials and books. By the early 1950s, the Kentucky Historical Society became an agency of the Kentucky state government. The mission of the Kentucky Historical Society is to engage people in the exploration of the commonwealth’s heritage. The Society looks to accomplish this through educational programs, the continuation of their museum, and the preservation of items of Kentucky history.
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Subject: Kentucky, Historic Preservation, Governors, Historical museums, Education
Description: USE THIS SEED TO CAPTURE PDFS FROM ISFNR WEBSITE; DO NOT NEED TO MAKE VISIBLE FROM PUBLIC SITE
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Subject: Oral Histories, Best Practices, Authority Control
Creator: International Society for Folk Narrative Research
Type: Web Archive
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
Description: University of Kentucky’s Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department fosters the understanding of language and cultural study abroad and at home. This department teaches undergraduate and graduate students, purses advancing knowledge in language and culture, and provides service and instruction cultural awareness to the people of Kentucky.
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Subject: Languages, Folklore, Culture, Literature, Kentucky, Classic Literature, Post-Secondary Education, Graduate Education
Description: Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation develops partnerships and programs that reinforce artists’ capacity to create and present work, advance access to and participation in the arts, and promote a more sustainable arts ecology. This blog will include essays and entries from guest bloggers, advertise folk happenings around the region, and share other information the Mid Atlantic Folk Art Foundation thinks might be of use to their readers.
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Subject: Folk Art
Creator: Mid Atlantic Folk Arts Foundation
Publisher: Mid Atlantic Folk Arts Foundation
Type: Web Archive
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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: Museum Anthropology Review is an open access journal whose purpose is the wide dissemination of peer-reviewed articles, reviews, essays, obituaries and other content advancing the field of material culture and museum studies, broadly conceived.
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Subject: Anthropology, Museum culture, Publications
Creator: Museum Anthropology Review
Type: Web Archive
Description: The Ozark Studies Institute at Missouri State University looks to study the culture of the Ozarks and the people who inhabit the area. This website provides content on the Jews in the Ozarks, folk festivals in the area, as well as information on the Ozark Plateaus and the various collections they have for research.
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Subject: Folk Festivals, Post-Secondary Education, Ethnography, Religion, Regional Ethnonology, Regional Identity, Research Institutes
Description: Established in 1999, the Department of Performance Studies is the first department at Texas A&M solely devoted to the arts. The Department offers a B.A. and minor in both Music and Theatre Arts. The B.A. in Music offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of music, with courses in composition, ethnomusicology, music history, music theory, music technology, and performance through various means. The B.A. in Theatre Arts provides training in the classroom and in an integrated theatre production program. The curriculum preparesstudents for professional theatre training programs and/or graduate work in the liberal and fine arts, teaching theatre in the secondary school, and a variety of careers in the professional arena or the world of business and industry.
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Subject: Music, Theatre Arts, Ethnomusicology, Fine Arts, Ethnography, Cultural Preservation, Festivals, Religious Ceremonies, Storytelling, Folklore, Indigenous Arts, Women's Studies, Ritual
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: Texas A&M University
Publisher: Texas A&M University
Type: Web Archive
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
Description: The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts look to preserve and highlight the culture of the islands of Hawaii. This foundation believes that the preservation of culture and history as well as access to the arts is a central tenant of the quality of life for the citizens of Hawaii. This is done through outreach programs, grants, and education programs in the communities of Hawaii.
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Subject: Education, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (Hawaii), Art, Folk Art, Research Grants, Exhibitions
Description: The Center for the Study of Southern Culture looks to investigate, document, research, interpret, and teach about the American South. The interdisciplinary investigation of the South is mindset of this program while the academic program is the heart and main focus of the researchers. The students and professors of this program focus on the region of Mississippi and the Delta. Over the last quarter century the Center has become a focal point for innovative education and research on the American South, promoting scholarship on many aspects of southern culture, and encouraging public understanding of the South.
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Subject: Southern States, Post-Secondary Education, Folklife, Research, Blogs, Publications
Description: The Wisconsin Folks site is a branch of the Wisconsin Arts Board that showcases folk artists throughout the state. The highlighted artists are members of traditional communities throughout Wisconsin and use their talents to showcase their heritage. The artists of the Wisconsin Folks come from different backgrounds including Greek, Chinese, Korean, Iraqi, Cuban, Ho Chunk, and other cultures that inhabit the state. This organization looks to showcase the talent of these artists and their cultures.
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Subject: Wisconsin Arts Board, Field Teaching, Education, Folk Art, Folk dance music--Wisconsin, Folk Artists
Description: World Music Institute is a not for profit organization that seeks to present concerts that showcase music from around the world. WMI encourages cross cultural exchange through music and dance by bringing acts to different locations in New York City as well as sponsoring nation wide tours of acts from overseas. WMI was founded in 1985 and is committed to the research presentation, and documentation of the finest in traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the world.
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Subject: World Music, Folk Music, World Music Institute, Dance, Folk dance music, Performance, Concerts
Description: The Alliance for California Traditional Arts is the only state organization focused on all folk and traditional arts. Recognized for its culturally competent leadership, intellectual capital, and excellence in program administration, ACTA is the California Arts Council's official partner in serving the state's folk and traditional arts field. Dedicated to sustaining and fostering the growth of cultural traditions found within the California’s diverse communities, ACTA ensures that its core values of respect, cultural pluralism, and cultural democracy permeate every aspect of its activity and programming. ACTA helps people connect to their past and keep traditions a central part of life today and tomorrow. By supporting folk and traditional artists, ACTA supports the health, cultural continuity and diversity of California.
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Subject: California, Folk Art, Folk Artists
Creator: Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Publisher: Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Type: Web Archive
Description: An association of people who study and communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world. The web site provides content on The AFS Review, the Society's activities, and The Folklore Commons.
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Subject: Professional Associations, Folklorists, Humanities, Anthropology, Cultural Heritage
Description: The mission of Arkansas Heritage is to identify the heritage of Arkansas and the quality of life of the people of Arkansas by the discovery, presentation, and presentation of the state’s cultural, historical, and cultural resources. Arkansas Heritage looks to preserve the collective memory of all of the people of Arkansas and highlight the important dates and people behind the stories. This organization also looks to bring the natural resources of the region to the attention of others since it has a great impact and rich history on the Arkansas of today.
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Subject: Folklore, Natural Resources, Education, Government Departments, Folklife, Museums
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 Mississippi Arts Commission is a government body that exists to promote arts in Mississippi through programming and administrative means. It is a grant giving body that employs government help to provide for all citizen participation in the arts as well as ties arts in Mississippi to economic growth and development. Besides the grant giving aspect of the Commission there are also the roles that the commission plays in the arts around Mississippi. These tasks include: fostering networks of local leaders and volunteers among arts of all disciplines, consult on community arts programs, and lastly provide training in managing the arts, art education planning, and community wide cultural planning.
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Subject: Public Art, Art, Government Departments, Art Education, Poetry, Writing, Folk Art, Music
Description: The Wisconsin Arts Board has produced Wisconsin Folks as a portal to allow for the public to interact with the traditional artists of Wisconsin. The site features over seventy traditional and ethnic folk artists from all over Wisconsin to allow for the citizens of Wisconsin to learn about their art, cultural life, and discover links with cultural arts in their community. Through the site’s focus on the intersection of culture and art, it is possible to connect the students of Wisconsin with the ideas of cultural recognition and the production of folk art.
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Subject: Folk Art, Folk Artists, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Arts Board, Education, Art Education, Folk dance music
Description: Washington State Arts Commission was established by The Washington State Legislature in 1961. The Commission does this through being economic drivers by creating jobs as well as educational assets by putting on educational programs for K-12 students. Another tool the Commission uses is to preserve the arts of Washington and make sure that they are accessible to the people of the state.
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Subject: Washington, Public Art, Art Education, Folk Art, Washington State Arts Commission
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 Atlanta History Center was founded by the Atlanta Historical Society, which considered preserving the history of Atlanta as their top priority. The Atlanta History Center looks to promote the history of Atlanta through living-history projects, lectures, and the history center is one of the largest museums in the country. Along with the history museum, the Atlanta History Center also operates three other historic homes and produces exhibits to promote the history.
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Subject: Atlanta History Museum, Historical sites, Historical museums, Gardens, Outreach Programs, Exhibitions, Georgia
Description: The Blue Ridge Institute and Museum was created by Ferrum College in the early 1970s to document, interpret, and represent the folk heritage of the Blue Ridge region. The Institute enjoys a national reputation and puts on festivals, concerts, and exhibits as well as produces publications. The Institute puts on major programming including: The Blue Ridge Folklife Festival, BRI Museum Exhibits, the Blue Ridge Farm Museum, and The Blue Ridge Heritage Archives. The audience of this institute spans all ages and backgrounds and seeks to expand its work throughout Virginia and Appalachia but still focuses on the western portion of the state.
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Subject: Folk Festivals, Archives, Folk Music, Historical museums, Folklife Archives, Folk Art, Folk Museums
Description: The Brooklyn Arts Council looks to utilize the benefits of the Brooklyn Community by showcasing the arts from this area of Manhattan as well as fiscally supporting them. The Brooklyn Arts Council supports the visual artists, dancers, and musicians of this community through grants and providing space for them to perform or display their art. This council is also heavily involved in encouraging arts in schools by providing Arts in Education, a program that looks to immerse teachers and students in educational arts experiences in the full range of arts disciplines.
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Subject: Folk Art, Music, Visual Arts, Culture, Communities, Dance, Folk Dance, Art Education, Grants
Description: The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is built around three values of relevance, stewardship, and authenticity to ensure the preservation of the history and environment of the Chesapeake Bay. The Museum was founded in 1965 on Navy Point. The collection of the Museum includes more than 10,000 printed volumes and 85 boats, six of which are floating displays for the museum. Through the collections housed here, the Museum looks to encourage the public to realize the relevancy of the Chesapeake Bay area and explore the history of the region.
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Subject: Bays, Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.), Historical museums, Maritime life, Maritime museums
Description: The mission of ChinaVine is to educate English speakers about China’s cultural heritage. To complete this mission, ChinaVine has created an interactive website to help bring the English speaking community information about the folk art of China as well as the evolving visual, dramatic, and fiber arts of the country. Another goal of ChinaVine is to preserve the folk art of the rural parts of this country since many young people are moving to the cities of China to further their education.
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Subject: Folk Art, Education, Architecture, Dance, Festivals, Culture, Religion, Fiber Art, Literature, Drama, Visual Arts
Description: The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is the only federally recognized Native American group in Mississippi. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians looks to improve the lives of its members through providing jobs and utilizing the natural resources of the tribe. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians does things through the government side and also goes for partnerships with local entities in the Mississippi communities.
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Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Native Americans, Choctaw Agency (U.S.), Culture, Tribes, Mississippi
Creator: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Publisher: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Type: Web Archive
Description: The purpose of the California Indian Basketweavers Association is to preserve and promote the California Indian tradition of basketweaving. This is accomplished by encouraging basketweavers to get further education about basketweaving, by increasing access to California Indian traditional practices, and by promoting solidarity and broadening communication among Native American basketweavers and other traditional Indian arts.
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Subject: California, Indian Clubs, Basketwork, Basket making, Workshops, Folklife
Creator: California Indian Basketweavers Association
Publisher: California Indian Basketweavers Association
Type: Web Archive
Description: The City of Ketchikan operates two museums that focus on the history of the city and the people who have inhabited it. One of them is the Tongass Historical Museum, which focuses on the culture and people of Southeast Alaska and Ketchikan. The Totem Heritage Center was established to preserve endangered 19th century totem poles that were retrieved from sites around Ketchikan.
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Subject: Museums, Folk Museums, Ketchikan (Alaska), Tongass Historical Museum, Totem Heritage Center, Totem poles, Newsletters
Description: This award-winning center was created by the Crandall Library’s Board of Trustees in 1993. The mission of the Folklife Center is to research and present the cultural traditions of the upper Hudson valley and southern Adirondacks of upstate New York through its research, documentation, special collections, public programs, gallery and educational services.
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Subject: Folklife, Galleries & museums--New York (State)--New York—2000, Art Galleries, Archives, Folklore, New York, Public Libraries, Education
Description: The California Traditional Music Society is an educational organization that supports, promotes and encourages participation in traditional arts of the diverse communities of southern California. The California Traditional Music Society attempts to accomplish these goals through festivals, concerts, and other events, public education and services to artists. The two major ways they achieve this is by holding Music in the Schools workshop series and a House Concert Series.
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Subject: Education, Folk Music, Folk Culture, Concerts, Music Festivals, Outreach Programs
Creator: California Traditional Music Society
Publisher: California Traditional Music Society
Type: Web Archive
Description: Incantatio is an peer-reviewed open-access electronic journal dedicated to publishing research on verbal charms, as well as on the practitioners of charms and their practice. From time to time the journal may also feature book reviews and conference reports. They are associated with the International Society for Folk Narrative Research’s Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming, and they are hosted on the webpages of the Estonian Literary Museum.
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Subject: Charms, Incantations, Journal and Topics Newspaper
Description: Here at the Philadelphia Folklore Project, we are committed to paying attention to the experiences and traditions of "ordinary" people. Our focus is to build critical folk cultural knowledge, sustain vital and diverse living cultural heritage in communities in our region, and create equitable processes and practices for nurturing local grassroots arts and humanities.
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Subject: Folk Art, Folklore, Folk Culture, Cultural Heritage, Grassroots, Folklife
Creator: Philadelphia Folklore Project
Type: Web Archive
Description: Talking Across the Lines is a folklife documentary consulting and production firm. This firm looks to tell the stories of minority groups and underrepresented groups that have not been represented in modern media. The oral histories they capture include ethnic groups from all over the southern United States as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender stories.
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Subject: Oral Histories, Interviews, Folklore, Folk Art, Research, Ethnic Groups, Education, Folklife
Description: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution and is dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound.
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Subject: Folklore, Music, Sound Recordings, United States of America
Description: The Georgia Council for the Arts was created in 1953 by the state legislature. The Council for the Arts looks to embrace and promote the arts of Georgia to help better its people and their lives. The Council does this by focusing on four different areas to promote the arts including: economic development, community impact, advocacy, and capacity building. They also foster artists by providing grants as well as highlighting the work of artists in Georgia.
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Subject: Georgia, Georgia Council for the Arts, Folk Art, Research Grants, Public Arts
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 Institute for Community Research looks to use collaborative action research to bring their projects and programs directly into communities. The Institute looks to hold their research in the place where residents live, work and socialize. By being in the place where the residents call home the Institute looks to open up a dialogue process that drives their partnership with the community and its leaders where everyone can determine the priority concerns for the community. The Institute for Community Research looks to incorporate their cornerstone principles of collaboration and partnership, action research, recognizing the value of culture, and intervention, health promotion and health prevention. These pillars of the organization allows for the foundation to work in collaboration with the community they are doing action research in while also helping other communities through new methods of health initiatives and preservation of community culture.
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Subject: Community, Research, Research Institutes, Folk Culture, Cultural Diversity, Health Care
Creator: Institute for Community Research
Publisher: Institute for Community Research
Type: Web Archive
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
Creator: Indiana University: Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Publisher: Indiana University
Language: English
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 International Society for Folk Narrative Research is a scholarly and professional organization of international specialists in the areas of folk narrative, popular literature, folklore, and related fields. According to its statutes, the Society’s main goal is "to develop scholarly work in the field of folk narrative research and to stimulate contacts and the exchange of views among its members." Acknowledging developments in the field, this goal has broadened in recent years to covering all aspects of narrative as representing the pivotal category of human communication.
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Subject: Professional Associations, Folk Narratives, Folklore
Description: The New Jersey Historical Society is a state-wide, private, nonprofit historical museum, library, and archives dedicated to collecting, preserving and interpreting the rich and intricate political, social, cultural and economic history of New Jersey to the broadest possible audiences. This society was founded in 1845 and is the oldest cultural institution in the state. This society looks to examine who the people of New Jersey are and what it means to be a member of the state of New Jersey. As a historical society and museum, this organization seeks to promote exploration of the cultures of New Jersey as well as its past and present.
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Subject: New Jersey, History societies, etc., Cultural History, Ethnographic Archives, Historical museums, Educational materials, Genealogy
Creator: The New Jersey Historical Society
Publisher: The New Jersey Historical Society
Type: Web Archive
Description: The Jubilee Community Arts seeks to preserve and present the traditional arts of the Southern Appalachians. The organizations defined mission is “to promote, preserve and present the performing arts of the Southern region and to nurture the cultural milieu responsible for the birth and evolution of these and related art forms”.
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Subject: Archives, Research, Radio, Folk Festivals, Education, Folk Art Museums, Folk Art, Concerts, Concert Halls
Description: The Kansas State Historical Society looks to preserve, manage, and offer access to the documents that shape Kansas. This society operates as a state agency and looks to provide services to not only the people of Kansas but anyone interested in the state. The society looks to provide educational outreach services, collecting and publishing research, and producing exhibits. The society’s website looks to place all the most interesting aspects of Kansas culture and history at the user’s fingertips including “Cool People”, “Kansaspedia”, and “Kansas A to Z”.
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Subject: Society, Cultural History, Social History, Political History, Research Libraries, States (geopolitical areas)
Description: On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directs the Library of Congress (LOC) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to conduct a survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), and to record new interviews with people who participated in the Movement. The survey information and portions of selected interviews will be made available worldwide through the Project website. The interviews will become a permanent part of the national library and the national museum.
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Subject: Civil Rights, Collection Guides, Oral Histories, American Folklore Society
Description: Local Learning began as the National Task Force for Folk Arts in Education during a 1993 national roundtable at the National Endowment for the Arts. Today, it is a loose network of hundreds of people interested in engaging young people with their own traditional culture and with the local culture and folklore of their families, regions, and the larger world. Local Learning is an organization comprising folk cultural specialists, folk artists, and educators, who have developed Folk Arts in Education (FAIE) programs in a wide variety of educational venues.
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Subject: Folk Art, Folklore, Education, Folklorists, Oral Histories, Music, Dance, Cultural Conservation, Traditions, Popular Cutlure
Creator: National Task Force for Folk Arts in Education
Publisher: National Task Force for Folk Arts in Education
Type: Web Archive
Description: Long Island Traditions documents the culture and folk around the Long Island area. This group, in part, focuses on the local architecture that surrounds the area including bay houses, garden apartments, and farm buildings. Since Long Island has a disappearing maritime and farming culture, the Long Island Traditions is looking to preserve the traditions of this culture. Since Long Island has a wealth of diverse ethnic cultures they support major cultural activities including Irish stepdance, African American quilting, and Jewish klezmer music. By employing field interviews and oral histories, Long Island Traditions looks to preserve the cultural heritage of the people of the Island as well as break down boundaries between existing groups.
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Subject: Oral Histories, Folk Art, Historic Preservation, Ethnic Groups, Traditions, Education, Folk Artists, Architectural History
Creator: Long Island Traditions
Type: Web Archive
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 Massachusetts Cultural Council is a group that looks to provide monetary and educational guidance to artists in the Massachusetts area. This is done through multiple grants including artists fellowships, local cultural events, and the Artist Space.
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Subject: Massachusetts, Culture, Art, Education, Folk Arts
Description: This web site — and a complementary exhibition that was on display at the National Heritage Museum from May 18, 2008-June 7, 2009 — draws on eight years of fieldwork by folklorists at the Massachusetts Cultural Council. This investigation took researchers into homes, dance halls, boat yards, places of worship, and festival sites — places where folk art is produced, used and valued. They found, talked with, photographed, and recorded people practicing folk art traditions, with the goal of understanding these practices from an insider's point of view.
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Subject: Folk Art, Massachusetts, Celebrations, Dance, Music, Religion, Immigrants
Description: The Missouri History Museum wants to deepen the understanding of past choices, present circumstances, and future possibilities of Missouri. The history museum looks to help foster the bonds of community and facilitate solutions to common problems. The Missouri History Museum adopted six core values in 2001: civil society, empathy, inspiration, integrity, remembrance, and stewardship. The Missouri History Museum also looks to use exhibits to display the past of Missouri.
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Subject: Missouri, Historical museums, Exhibits, Education
Description: The Museum of International Folk Art opened in September 1953 and has since gained national and international recognition as an accredited Museum that is home to the world’s largest collection of folk art. This Museum looks to showcase their exhibitions by promoting them on their website and creating exhibitions that reflect the regions the art comes from. Along with showcasing their exhibits on the website they also exhibit in four distinct wings of their museum: Bartlett, Girard, Hispanic Heritage, and Neutrogena.
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Subject: Folk Art Museums, Folk Art, Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.), Museums, Exhibitions
Creator: Museum of International Folk Art
Publisher: New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
Type: Web Archive
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 Memorial University of Newfoundland is the only Anglophone university in Canada to offer comprehensive folklore programs at all levels. Memorial University is also a vital part of its community - one steeped in unique lifestyles and traditions, and where the study and celebration of culture and heritage is considered crucial. This provides folklorists with rich opportunities for innovative community partnerships and learning experiences.
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Folklore, Canada, Ethnography, Women's Studies, Arts Administration, Oral Histories, Music, Folksongs, Childlore, Language, Popular Culture
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Publisher: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Type: Web Archive
Description: The North Carolina Folklife Institute looks to encourage communities across the state to preserve their traditional arts as well as promote them in conjunction with educational outreach programs and active citizenship. This Institute looks to document folklife and preserve and promote North Carolina’s traditional arts and culture. The Institute keeps these pillars of community alive by developing interpretations of Cherokee Heritage Trails, producing CDs of archival recordings of folk musicians and producing a broadcast for National Public Radio of different folk artists from the North Carolina area.
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Subject: North Carolina, Folklife, Folk Artists, Folk Artists--America, Preservation, Food, Awards, Podcasts, Regionalism
Creator: North Carolina Folklife Institute
Publisher: North Carolina Folklife Institute
Type: Web Archive
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 mission of the Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association is to preserve, promote, and perpetuate the traditional and contemporary art of Northwest Native American Basketry. The Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association looks to do this through annual gatherings, member outreach programs, and regional networking.
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Subject: Native Americans, Basket making, Folk Art, Basketwork
Creator: Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Publisher: Tulalip Tribes
Type: Web Archive
Description: The Pacific Northwest is composed of a rich mix of heritage and traditions and the traditional arts of the cultures that inhabit this area. Northwest Heritage Resources goal is to focus on the cultures of this area and encourage the utilization of their tools to bring attention to the people of the region. This website includes a searchable database of traditional artists from Washington State and a useful educational tool for learning about Washington cultural traditions. The Northwest Heritage Resource website provides audio heritage tours of the Washington State region and there is also a calendar that lists the Heritage events happening in the Northwest.
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Subject: Folklife, Folk Art, Heritage Tourism, Education, Storytellers, Oral Tradition
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
Creator: Northwestern State University - University of Louisiana
Publisher: University of Louisiana
Language: English
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 New York Folklore Society recognizes and celebrates the extraordinary in everyday life, bringing focus to the traditions of our state’s diverse peoples. NYFS is the leading resource for folklore and folklife by disseminating research and information throughout the state.
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Subject: Folklife, New York, Folk Art, Music, Dance, Festivals, Celebrations, Legends, Folktales, Foodways
Creator: New York Folklore Society
Type: Web Archive
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
Creator: Philadelphia Folksong Society
Publisher: Philadelphia Folksong Society
Language: English
Type: Web Archive
Description: PhilaPlace is an interactive Web site, created by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, that connects stories to places across time in Philadelphia’s neighborhoods. PhilaPlace weaves stories shared by ordinary people of all backgrounds with historical records to present an interpretive picture of the rich history, culture, and architecture of our neighborhoods, past and present. The PhilaPlace Web site uses a multimedia format – including text, pictures, audio and video clips, and podcasts – and allows visitors to map their own stories in place and time. More than a Web site, PhilaPlace includes ongoing community programs and publications, from workshops for teachers, to trolley tours, and exhibits. PhilaPlace is an engaging, meaningful way to understand more about where we live, and will serve as an enduring record of our heritage.
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Subject: Philadelphia, Urban History, Architectural History, Immigrants, Cultural Conservation, Folk Art, Migrants
Creator: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Type: Web Archive
Description: A collection of folk and mythology electronic texts, edited and translated by D. L. Ashliman at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Description: The Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation conserves, interprets and develops historical, cultural and recreational resources throughout western Pennsylvania. Through the artifacts of the “Big Steel” era the story of these eight counties is easily told and the culture of the area can be seen in the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area that has a museum, tours of the area, and produces historical events to engage the public. Rivers of Steel also seeks to link the colonial era of this region and the present day and future economic and cultural life of the region. This is done through resource preservation and economic revitalization projects.
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Subject: Pennsylvania, Historic Preservation, Steel, Research Grants, Historical museums, Travel
Creator: Rivers of Steel
Publisher: Little Kelpie
Description: Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum is based in western Maine and focuses on the logging industry and the history they have left on this area. This museum looks to preserve the rich cultural heritage of logging in the Rangeley Lakes Region so that it can be preserved for generations to come. They also seek to educate about the contributions of logging, logging families, and the logging industry as well as instill appreciation for the natural resources of the western Main forest. The Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum looks to do this through producing classes for students, educating the public, and holding programs at their museum to instill this awareness about the logging industry that has existed in this region.
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Subject: Logging (Forestry), Logging tools, Industrial Museums, Folk Art, Visual Arts
Description: The Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania began in 1962 under the direction of MacEdward Leach, a medievalist who taught in the English department, and whose sound recordings from Jamaica, Newfoundland, and the Southern Mountains launched the Folklore Archive. Over the next four decades nearly 250 students earned the Ph.D. in Folklore from Penn. In 1999, the Department of Folklore and Folklife was restructured as a Graduate Program and a Center for Folklore and Ethnography (open 1999-2008).
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Subject: Folklore, Folklife, Post-Secondary Education, Music, Performance, Folk Art, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Film, Religion, Urban Folklore, Anthropology, Oral Histories
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania
Type: Web Archive
Description: The Sealaska Heritage Institute is a regional Native American organization founded for the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people of Southeast Alaska. This institute administers Sealaska Corporation’s cultural and educational programs. The mission of the Institute is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures. They do this through art programs, educational programs, and language and culture workshops. The Institute also produces publications that relate to Native Alaskan cultures, languages, and historical events. The Sealaska Heritage Institute holds rare items and books that are representative of the history of the native peoples of Southeast Alaska.
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Subject: Native American, Native American Association, Tlingit Indians, Haida Indians, Tsimshian Indians, Folk Art, Folklife, Folklife Archives, Education, Publications, Folklore
Description: The North Dakota Council for the Arts looks to preserve, promote, and perpetuate the art of North Dakota. This council intends to promote these endeavors by deepening citizens’ art and cultural engagement as well as enable community grass-roots projects focusing on art as a reflection of North Dakota culture. North Dakota Council on the Arts also looks to expand education in the K-12 sector and give citizens a greater understanding of art by encouraging artists’ creative expression and recognize artists as an essential educational tool in the classroom and outside of it.
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Subject: Legislative Bodies, Folklore, Folk Art, Public Art, Proposals, Teaching, Education
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
Description: Texas Folklife is a statewide organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the diverse cultures and living heritage of the Lone Star State. Since its beginning twenty-nine years ago, Texas Folklife has honored the cultural traditions passed down within communities across Texas and have showcased them through exhibits, educational programs, and outreach activities. To further their goal of making the arts and culture of Texas accessible Texas Folklife holds performances, puts on radio and television programs, and hosts community residencies.
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Subject: Folklife, Texas, Folk Culture, Texas Folklife, Exhibitions, Outreach Programs, Nonprofit organizations
Description: Traditional Arts Indiana is dedicated to expanding public awareness of Indiana’s traditional practices and nurturing a sense of pride among Indiana’s traditional artists. TAI identifies, documents, and seeks to understand more fully the many ways in which cultural values are embedded in daily life. TAI actively documents Indiana’s traditional arts and artists through interviewing, recording, and photographing individuals and groups throughout the state about their crafts and traditions.
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Subject: Folk Art, Indiana, Folk Culture, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Conservation, Folklorists, Folklife, Music, Crafts
Creator: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana Arts Commission
Publisher: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana Arts Commission
Type: Web Archive
Description: The Tuckerton Seaport looks to preserve, present and interpret the rich maritime history, artistry, heritage and environment of the Jersey short and the unique contributions of its baymen. The Tuckerton Seport has evolved into a maritime village located along the historic Tuckerton Creek in Tuckerton, New Jersey. This 40-acre site includes historic and recreated buildings connected by a boardwalk, a maritime forest and wetlands nature trail. The Tuckerton Seport looks to expand education on the Tuckerton Seaport by providing exhibits about the past of this place, folk art education programs, and looks to expand awareness about the folklife of the area with the Jersey Shore Folklife Center.
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Subject: Folklife, New Jersey, Tuckerton Seaport (Tuckerton, N.J.), Museums, Learning Activities, Education, Folk Festivals
Creator: Tuckerton Seaport and Bayman's Museum
Publisher: Tuckerton Seaport and Bayman's Museum
Type: Web Archive
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
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