Texas Folklife Now Accepting Applications for 2027 Apprenticeships & Fellowships

Applications are now open for two of Texas Folklife‘s flagship programs.

Community Folklife Fellowship

The Texas Folklife Community Folklife Fellowship program is a statewide program that provides training in oral history, interviewing, audio storytelling, archives, and podcast production for adults. Participants learn to document community traditions in their own cities and towns throughout the state, through workshops and community partnerships. Fellows receive a stipend and free training in oral history, produce a documentary podcast episode, and present a community workshop in their community.

Applications for the 2027 Community Folklife Fellowship program are due November 17, 2026 at 11:59pm CT.

Apprenticeship Program

This program awards honorariums to roughly eight master artists each year, giving them the means to offer one-on-one training in an artistic, cultural, or heritage practice to a dedicated apprentice over six to eight months. By deepening mentors’ mastery, broadening apprentices’ skills, and passing knowledge within and between communities, the Apprenticeship Program carries Texas’s folk and traditional arts into the next generation.

Applications for the 2027 Apprenticeship Program are due November 23, 2026 at 11:59pm CT.