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Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore 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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Ward Museum looks to expand the world of waterfowl art and merge the ideas of art, culture, and nature. The museum is promoting these goals by exhibiting, collecting, and preserving the wildfowl art and the educational materials around them. Another object of focus for this Museum are the Ward Brothers, who started carving waterfowl and helped generate a business out of their craft.
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Subject: Animal Art, Folk Art , Art Education, Art Museums, Museum Exhibits, Wood Carvers, Ducks
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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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