Image Gallery

Here are some of the images we use in the background throughout our website.

We hope to update these images regularly with work created and submitted by our members and colleagues. Please contribute! Contact us at [email protected].

The in-person portion of the 2021 Annual Meeting will be held October 21–24 in Harrisburg, PA. Harrisburg is home to the Harrisburg Mural Festival, which works with artists and neighborhoods to create vibrant murals throughout Harrisburg. Here, San Francisco-based artist Nathaniel works on his wall on Paxtang Avenue during The 2019 Harrisburg Mural Fest. Sept. 07, 2019. Photo by Sean Simmers | [email protected]

mural on brick wall says Harrisburg in large letters — A Sprocket Mural Works mural at the Midtown Cinema in Harrisburg, PA. Photo courtesy of Sean Simmers, PennLive.com July 12, 2016

Four individuals pose for the camera in front of some banners at a professional conference. — AFS members enjoy a break from an Annual Meeting reception to say hello to the camera.

A group of people dancing as a band plays in the background. — Boise Basque band, Amuma Says No, performed a socially distant pandemic concert at the Idaho Botanical Garden. Unable to resist, members of the Oinkari Basque Dancers also gave an impromptu performance. Playing accordion for Amuma Says No, Dan Ansotegui was awarded a 2019 National Heritage Award through the National Endowment for the Arts. Photographed by Arlie Sommer, Boise, Idaho.

Jars of pickles — Pickles and beans, Preston County, WV. Photo by Debra Lattanzi Shutika

NEW YORK CITY, USA - JUNE 12, 2020: Crowd of people walk into the light of sunset at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest march on 14th Street in Manhattan. — NEW YORK CITY, USA – JUNE 12, 2020: Crowd of people walk into the light of sunset at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest march on 14th Street in Manhattan. Photo by deberarr, Adobe Photostock.

View from above of many people gathered in a hotel lobby around posters and exhibit tables — Attendees mingle and interact with local artists demonstrating their work at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in Baltimore. Photo by Meredith McGriff

A smiling group stands in front of a sign that reads "Folklorists and Ethnomusicologists at Work Around the World" — Members of the AFS Cultural Diversity Committee gather in 2019. Photo by Meredith McGriff

Giant masked figures in costume, including a female figure in a white veil and dress, in a courtyard with a crowd watching from the periphery — San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato 2006, Mojiganga. Photo by Debra Lattanzi Shutika

A square quilt made of irregularly shaped, colorful fabric pieces — Women’s Section quilt made by members of the section to benefit the Elli Kongas-Maranda Prize, 1993 – 1995. The quilt was designed and pieced by Laurel Horton and Jane Przybysz, and quilted by the Fairview United Methodist Church Quilters of Camden, Arkansas.