Indiana Humanities names folklorist Jon Kay a “Humanities Hero,” a designation that highlights the work of public facing humanities scholars in Indiana.
News from the Field
Folklorist and American Routes host Nick Spitzer celebrated Thanksgiving with the 2022 National Heritage Fellows.
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is now accepting applications for ARSC Conference Grants for its Annual Conference, to be held May 17-20, 2023, in Pittsburgh, PA. All applications and supporting materials must be received by January 6, 2023.
Roots of American Culture: A Cross-Country Visit with Living Treasures of the Folk and Traditional Arts, which celebrates the 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellowship honorees, is available to view now.
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum and the University of Illinois Press are partnering to co-publish and distribute books on country music and related music styles. The first release in the partnership is Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock, the museum’s new companion book to its major multi-year exhibition of the same name.
The Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance has recently been named as a provisional partner in the PA Council on the Arts’ Folk and Traditional Arts program. As a part of the new initiative, PRAA seeks to hire a folklorist/consultant to build the program.
The 2022 AAR elections for the Board of Directors have concluded. Leela Prasad has been elected Vice President and Keri Day has been elected At-Large Director.
The Jazz & Heritage Archive is now accepting Applications for their Competitive Two-year Fellowship. The deadline to apply is December 20, 2022.
The Institute for Citizens & Scholars, formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, is still accepting applications for a number of programs for the month of November. Apply now.
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice invites essays for a special issue on Folklore, Conflict & Peace. The deadline for the submission is January 15, 2023.