On December 18, 2024, City Lore co-director Steve Zeitlin and archivist Seth Schonberg drove to Washington, DC to deliver over 40 years of the organization's archival audio and visual materials to be shared with the Library of Congress.
News from the Field
Through March, you can freely access Traci Cox’s essay in JAF’s Special Issue on Folklore Studies and Disability that received the "Best Article of the Year" Award from the Brothers Grimm Society of North America.
NASAA, in collaboration with NEA, released Cross-Sector Strategies for Health and Community Well-Being, which documents the strategies of seven state arts agencies with innovative programs connecting the arts sector and health care sector.
Dr. Maribel Alvarez converses with Folk music educator and performer Eugene Rodriguez, who founded Los Cenzontles, a youth music group, in 1989 in San Pablo, California, about the joys and challenges of folklore-based education and identity politics.
Listen to The UPside, a podcast conversation between editors Lisa Gilman and Anand Prahlad about the special issue of the Journal of American Folklore on folklore and disability.
The National Humanities Alliance is pleased to launch their new report, Attracting Students to the Liberal Arts Through Integrative Curricula. The report illustrates how undergraduate courses and programs that integrate the humanities, social sciences, and/or natural sciences with applied approaches and pre-professional training help to demonstrate the value of a broad-based education to skeptical students.
Congratulations to the Maryland State Arts Council, which wins the 2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Agency Award from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies for its Land Acknowledgment Project.
South Arts has compiled a list of resources that may be helpful to artists, arts organizations and communities who have been impacted by the recent hurricane.
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.
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.