BIPOC arts professionals and emerging creatives in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas are invited to register for a FREE session of Centering the Margins that takes place on June 12 at 4:00 pm CT.
News from the Field
WESTAF's TourWest is a competitive grant program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts that provides subsidies to arts and community organizations in the 13 states and 3 jurisdictions in the WESTAF region for the presentation of touring performers and literary artists.
Folklorists Brandon Barker and Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth were featured in webcasts, podcasts, and news interviews about the solar eclipse on April 8.
The Southeast Kentucky African-American Museum and Cultural Center in Hazard, KY; Quilt Alliance in Asheville, NC; and The Appalachian Rekindling Project in Knoxville, TN—are receiving $30,000 grants to advance their work in supporting the folk arts and traditional culture of Central Appalachia.
Dr. Sandra Bartlett Atwood, an Indigenous Studies instructor at Lethbridge College and founding member of the AFS Folklore & Science Section, received the Environment & Society publication of the year award from Utah State University.
The Folklore Society in the UK seeks papers for their 18th Legendary Weekend on the topic "Water in Legend and Tradition"
This summer the Leiden Department of Middle East Studies is partnering with the University Library to organize another summer school in Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World from August 19-30, 2024. The deadline for applications is Wednesday May 1, 2024.
Access recordings from the 2024 Chennai Storytelling Festival.
Hilliard, Owens, and Eisele talked to Grist bout how their work in Appalachia, the Bayou, and the desert Southwest address climate change.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced this year’s NEA National Heritage Fellows, recipients of the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. Every year since 1982, the NEA has presented this lifetime honor in recognition of individuals whose