Craft in America will be launching the initiative Handwork: Celebrating Craft 2026 to present the importance of handmade craft, in a year-long collaboration among organizations and educators.
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.
Mildred L. (Millie) Rahn, (age 72), of Belmont, Massachusetts, passed away due to cancer on April 9, 2024 in West Friendship, Maryland.
the University Library at California State University, Sacramento is accepting applications for the Hellenic Research Fellowship Program (HRFP), the only residential fellowship program west of the Mississippi in Hellenic studies broadly conceived, enables visiting scholars to conduct research using the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection in Sacramento, CA. The fellowship application deadline is May 3, 2024.
This year, the deadline is midnight on Wednesday, April 10.
Erie Arts & Culture has opened applications for their summertime folk intern position.
Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA) seeks a dynamic applicant for postdoctoral fellowship for a Community Engaged Research Specialist. The deadline is April 22, 2024.
Poster sessions return to the AFS annual meeting this year! Thanks to added functionality with our new conference platform, we will be able to accommodate poster sessions as an online interactive experience in our virtual Poster Hall. Poster presenters will be named in
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.
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