Congratulations to the inaugural awardees of the American Council of Learned Societies' Extended Engagement Microgrants, which were awarded by the Intention Foundry. The ACLS microgrant will fund a workshop at AFS’ 2024 Annual Meeting and follow-up conversations centered on inclusive folklore pedagogy.
News from the Field
Arts Midwest announces nine recipients of its inaugural Midwest Culture Bearers Award in recognition of their work of preserving cultural traditions rooted in community and prioritizing the next generation across the region.
The 17th International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) congress will take place at the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK 3–6 June 2025. Call for panels, roundtables, workshops and combined formats is open until 7 October 2024.
The Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University announces the accession of the Norine Dresser Collection. This collection is transferred from the Institute of Historical Survey Foundation, and it showcases folklorist Norine Dresser’s dedication to documenting global folklore.
The American Council of Learned Societies awards the 2024 Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies to the project "Diversifying Humanistic Pedagogy in China Studies: Incorporating Ethnic Minority Literary and Cultural Productions into North American College Classrooms."
The 2025 Journal of Folklore and Education seeks submissions that amplify and demonstrate the power and the promise of multimodal storytelling to educate. Developing and analyzing the findings of ethnographic documentation also involves creation of transmedia products, from podcasts to poetry, comics to videos.
Guest Editors by Michelle Banks and Sojin Kim join co-editors Lisa Rathje and Paddy Bowman in announcing the launch of Volume 11 of the Journal of Folklore and Education, On Shifting Ground: Migration, Disruption, and the Changing Contours of Home.
Los Herederos, a media arts non-profit dedicated to inheriting culture in the digital age, was featured on ABC 7 Eyewitness News on September, 23 for their Queens as Cultural Crossroads installation in the Roosevelt Avenue and 74th Street subway station in Jackson Heights.
On the 50th anniversary of the Western States Arts Federation, the organization has rebranded as Creative West and launched a new website.
Arts Midwest is now accepting applications for Cultural Sustainability: Equity-Based Operating Grants, a pilot program that offers grants of up to $67,000 to small arts and culture organizations that are rooted in communities of color. Applications close at 11:59 pm CT on October 15, 2024. Grants will be made in January 2025. An informational webinar will be held at 1pm CT, September 19, 2024.