Claiborne Rice (Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University) received the 2022 Folklore and Science Senior Prize.
Applications for the 2023 Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships are now open, with applications due February 1.
Log in to the AFS Annual Meeting Hub to play recordings of hybrid programs in Tulsa.
Jan Rosenberg, AFS lifetime member, died on January 7, 2023.
Jerrilyn McGregory (professor in folklore in the Department of English, Florida State University) received the Chicago Folklore Prize, honoring the best book of folklore scholarship of the year, for One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World (2022).
The National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) seeks an experienced, highly motivated individual with a strong commitment to a broad spectrum of folk and traditional arts to develop and coordinate program content for major annual festivals, tours and other events. Review of candidates will begin February 14, 2023.
A new biography of the trailblazing writer and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, premiers on PBS on January 17.
2023 concert dates for Voices of Mississippi, a multimedia event that celebrates the music, art, and storytelling traditions of the people of Mississippi, have been announced.
AFS members were elected to office starting in 2023. View the 2022 AFS election results.
The Nevada Arts Council seeks a Folklife Specialist who will work to cultivate the arts for the benefit of all Nevadans, with a focus on sustaining and documenting Nevada’s traditional art forms and artists, especially with underserved or marginalized communities.
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