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.
This Institute for Higher Education Faculty funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities brings together faculty and advanced graduate students in the humanities whose research addresses traumatic and/or controversial memories and histories and relies on archival or museum collections to interpret them. Applications due Tuesday, March 5, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.
City Lore announces Somos Boricuas, a two-week summer institute for K-12 educators, and Museum Educators from across the country. The institute will be held in New York City from July 14 – 27, 2024. The application deadline is March 5, 2024.
The Museum of International Folk Art Seeks Director of Curatorial Affairs to provide strategic and organizational leadership essential to the organization.
The Department of Music at Davidson College seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor for a temporary, two-year appointment to begin July 1, 2024. Applications completed by February 26, 2024 will receive full consideration.
The JAF editorial team is pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Winter issue of JAF: A Global Quarterly (v. 137, no. 543), a special issue on “Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere."
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