National Endowment for the Arts published an article by hula dance practitioner and founder of the PA’I Foundation, Vicky Holt Takamine. In this piece, Vicky discusses what inspired her to become an advocate for Native Hawaiian artists an cultural practitioners. Read the
News from the Field
The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for the position of Director for the American Folklife Center Archives. The application deadline is December 23, 2021. Among the duties of the position, the director will serve as a primary advisor to top
A librarian at the Alberta Library in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Lorisia MacLeod, has developed a citations template for indigenous oral teachings. The new citation template provides a means of including information such as the name of the source, the individual’s nation or
The University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. has recently announced a new, fully-funded PhD program, Climate Crisis and Indigenous Storywork: Decolonizing International Climate Change Discourse and Policy. The deadline to apply to this program is January 19, 2022.
Organizers for the National Folk Festival are now accepting applications for the festival’s host city for its 2023-2025 festival dates. Review of applications begins December 1, 2021 and will continue until the winning application is selected. The National Folk Festival is a
Missouri Folklore Society held its annual meeting virtually November 3 – 5. In order to accommodate the diverse needs of its membership and other audiences, the MFS 2021 Annual Meeting was made available online, starting with both “at will” sessions and “synchronous
The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, will present “The Culture of America: A Cross-Country Visit with the 2021 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows,” on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at
The Baltimore American Indian Center and Baltimore Center Stage will co-host a virtual launch and community celebration for several first-of-their-kind guides to Indigenous Baltimore which focus on the twentieth century and East Baltimore’s Historic American Indian “Reservation.” These free, public resources include
The Design History Forum at Drexel University invites papers for its inaugural Undergraduate Symposium in Material Culture Studies (USMCS) to be held via Zoom on Saturday, March 12th, 2022. We invite students who have taken classes in art history, design history, fashion
Jerusalem Archives’, a collaboration of Jerusalem Development Corporation (HARLI) and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, is an extensive project of heritage documentation and digitization which aims to locate, expose, and digitize official and personal documentation pertaining to the city’s modern building