The Mississippi Arts Commission’s (MAC) Folk & Traditional Arts program seeks to hire a contractor to identify traditional artists and conduct ethnographic fieldwork in 9 counties of the Northeastern Hill Country region of the state. The deadline is February 8, 2023
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Vivian Williams, fiddler, composer, recording artist, and writer, died on January 6, 2023 at the age of 84. She had been suffering with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), aka Lou Gehrig’s disease. Beginning as early as 1962, Vivian Williams, working with her late
Birgit Hannele Wilson, wife of folklorist William A (Bert) Wilson, died January 11, 2023.
The Virginia Folklife Program seeks one or more paid interns for Summer 2023. Online applications are due Friday, March 31.
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies is offering a paid Summer 2023 internship this year to work with their Arts & Cultures domain. The deadline is Feb. 3, 2023.
A new biography of the trailblazing writer and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, premiers on PBS on January 17.
2023 concert dates for Voices of Mississippi, a multimedia event that celebrates the music, art, and storytelling traditions of the people of Mississippi, have been announced.
Edited, translated and introduced by Nancy L. Canepa, this new release provides a representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English, now available with a discount from Wayne State University Press.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced that grant guidelines and application materials are now available for Challenge America and Grants for Arts Projects (GAP).