Arts Midwest is now accepting applications for the 2025 Midwest Culture Bearers Award, which celebrates and supports the work of Midwest culture bearers and folk arts practitioners. Applications close at 11:59 pm CST on July 21, 2025.
The Center for Cultural Innovation's Investing in Artists: Tools & Equipment program will award grants of $1,000–$5,000 to individual craft artists to purchase artistic tools and equipment that support their ability to make object-based work. The application deadline is August 8 at 11:59 a.m. PT.
Scholars, educators, and specialists in diverse fields of study are invited to apply for the 2025 Berea College Media Archives Fellowship, an outreach program of the Special Collections and Archives (SCA) department of the College's Hutchins Library. The extended deadline is July 15.
The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) announced the opening of its 9th annual competition for Scandinavian Folk Arts & Cultural Traditions in the Upper Midwest (North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan). The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2025.
Arts Midwest is now accepting applications for the 2025 Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities, an award supporting accessibility in the arts and celebrating the work of disabled Midwestern visual artists. This award application will close at 11:59 pm CDT on July 10, 2025, with awardees notified in August 2025.
The College of Humanities and Social Science at George Mason University seeks a 12-minth postdoctoral research fellow in Immigration Research to help build folklore, arts, culture, and storytelling initiatives at the Institute for Immigration Research. The deadline for applications is June 24.
The 2024 AFS Annual Report is now available.
During the 2024 conference and in the months following, AFS staff negotiated with the Albuquerque Convention Center, firmly communicating the unacceptable air and heating conditions our participants, guests, and staff were dealing with during the meeting held in the ABQ Convention Center.
As the AFS Annual Meeting is only four months away, the AFS Executive Board and Annual Meeting team members got to spend some important in-person time in Atlanta, Georgia together. The Executive Board continued discussions for AFS’s long term plans while the team laid groundwork for the October meeting.
Playing the Archive (UCL Press) revisits the trailblazing work of folklorists Iona and Peter Opie, who documented children’s playground games, rhymes, and traditions in mid-20th century Britain, and brings their research into the digital age. This volume is available as an open access PDF.
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