Our 2023 Annual Meeting Participant Survey has collected valuable insights into attendees’ responses to last year’s meeting and a window into the priorities and needs of our participants in the present moment. As AFS continues to navigate the changing landscape of constraints
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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
The AFS Fellows invites nominations for AFS Fellows for the 2024 Election.
The winner of the The Folk Arts and Material Culture Section 2023 Warren E. Roberts Prize for Best Student Project is "Devil in the Skies, Stars on the Barns: The Snallygaster, Hex Signs, and Barn Stars," by Jack Daly, a PhD student at Penn State Harrisburg.
Mount Adams School District teachers, Shelly Craig and Brettagne Aleck of White Swan, Washington were awarded the 2023 Robinson-Roeder-Ward Fellowship.
The 2023 recipient of the John Westley Work III Award is DieDra Hurdle-Ruff, The Alabama Blues Queen and Executive Director of the Pinson Valley Arts Council.
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies announce the new James Bailey Dissertation Research Grant in Folklore Studies. The deadline is April 1, 2024.
Applications are now being accepted for a Folklore Graduate Student Folk Arts Internship, supported through the Internship program of New York Folklore and the New York State Council on the Arts. Applications must be received by midnight on Sunday, March 17th.
Diana Baird N’Diaye, Lead Curator of the African American Craft Initiative at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, was named one of the Honorary Fellows of the American Craft Council.
Join Vermont Folklife Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 3:30 - 5:30 pm EST for an online professional learning workshop for educators and learn how to access, engage with, and teach from ethnographic and oral history sound recordings and more from the Vermont Folklife Archive.
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