The Florida Department of State Division of Arts and Culture has appointed Dr. Dominick Tartaglia as Florida’s new State Folklorist.
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Folklorist, civic leader, and educator Susan Eleuterio has been elected chair of the board of directors of Illinois Humanities.
(The Mississippi Humanities Council )– Dr. William Reynolds Ferris, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will receive the Cora Norman Award in recognition of his distinguished career as a scholar and national leader in the humanities. A native of
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
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