Bernard L. Herman, renowned scholar of American material culture and George B. Tindall Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died on December 30, 2024.
US RAOs recently released their new funding program, Walking Together, which offers grants from $15,000 - $50,000. Webinars and office hours are available for additional information. The initial self-nomination deadline is Wednesday, March 19.
The KGOU podcast How Curious, which is hosted and produced by folklorist Rachel Hopkin, wins the 2025 Bruce T. Fisher Award from the Oklahoma Historical Society “in recognition of its outstanding work contributing to the broader public knowledge of Oklahoma history.”
Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) is NEA's principal grant program. Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of excellent art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. The deadline for this cycle of GAP funding is March 11, 2025 at 11:59 pm ET.
The 2024 Annual Meeting brought together nearly 900 US and international specialists in folklore and folklife, folk narrative, popular culture, music, material culture, and related fields to exchange work and ideas and to create and strengthen relationships and networks.
Our 2024 Annual Meeting Participant Survey has collected valuable insights into attendees’ responses to the Albuquerque meeting and is a window into the priorities and needs of our participants in the present moment.
This book includes 42 songs collected from tradition bearers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. While it was created with music educators and their students in mind, it is also a valuable resource for anyone looking to explore some of the songs Helen Creighton collected from a wide range of peoples.
On December 18, 2024, City Lore co-director Steve Zeitlin and archivist Seth Schonberg drove to Washington, DC to deliver over 40 years of the organization's archival audio and visual materials to be shared with the Library of Congress.
The Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) oral history program invites experienced oral historians to submit proposals for oral history projects surrounding themes of agriculture, farmers markets, and gardening traditions in the region. Applications are due February 14, 2025.
Through March, you can freely access Traci Cox’s essay in JAF’s Special Issue on Folklore Studies and Disability that received the "Best Article of the Year" Award from the Brothers Grimm Society of North America.
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