The Portland, Oregon-based Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is looking for a program coordinator. Applications are due by July 13, 2022.
News from the Field
The Department of Special Collections and Archives at Berea College's Hutchins Library has chosen Edward Karshner, Associate Professor of English at Robert Morris University, to receive a 2022 Media Fellowship.
AFS is pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural AFS Graduate Fieldwork Grant: Ben Bridges, a fifth-year PhD student at Indiana University, and Zahra Abedinezhad, a second-year PhD student at The Ohio State University.
The McKissick Museum of Columbia, South Carolina, seeks a full-time Folklife Program Director to plan and implement folklife-related research and public programs that engage on- and off-campus audiences.
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts, a national leader in the folk and traditional arts field, seeks a full-time Development Manager, and offers a remote or hybrid work option.
The Community Collections Grants from the American Folklife Center fund and support contemporary cultural field research and documentation within diverse communities. Available to individuals and organizations, the grants offer up to $50,000 each to support projects within their communities to produce ethnographic cultural documentation.
The SAPIENS Public Scholars Training Fellowship program guides anthropologists on accessible writing and podcasting for broad nonacademic audiences. The purpose of the fellowship program is to to provide in-depth training for anthropologists in the craft of science communication and public scholarship.
This year, the American Folklife Center has awarded Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons funding to two innovative projects that will benefit from research in ethnographic collections at the Library of Congress.
E. Anthony (Tony) Collins' project, “Missouri Fiddlin’: A Digital Archive of Old-Time Fiddlers in Missouri,” has won the 2022 Henry Reed Fund Award given by the American Folklife Center, given to support activities directly involving folk artists, especially when their activities reflect, draw upon, or strengthen AFC collections.
The American Folklife Center has awarded its 2022 Archie Green Fellowships to five projects aimed at documenting and analyzing the culture and traditions of American workers.