Jeanne Pitre Soileau (teacher) received the 2022 Iona and Peter Opie Prize.
Margaret Bennett (Professor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) received the 2022 Iona and Peter Opie Prize.
The Oregon Folklife Network (OFN) seeks to contract a financial strategist/consultant to review and revise the OFN’s financial plan. The performance period is February through June 2023. Funding for this project is $15,000 and ends June 30, 2023. Applications are due January 27, 2023.
The Mississippi Arts Commission’s (MAC) Folk & Traditional Arts program seeks to hire a contractor to identify traditional artists and conduct ethnographic fieldwork in 9 counties of the Northeastern Hill Country region of the state. The deadline is February 8, 2023
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Vivian Williams, fiddler, composer, recording artist, and writer, died on January 6, 2023 at the age of 84. She had been suffering with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), aka Lou Gehrig’s disease. Beginning as early as 1962, Vivian Williams, working with her late
Crystal Good (culture worker, artist, advocate, publisher, and entrepreneur) received the 2022 Women's and Independent Folklorists' Sections Annual Meeting Award.
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler (graduate student of Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill; writer, reproductive justice worker, freelance folklorist) received the 2022 Women's and Independent Folklorists' Sections Annual Meeting Award.
Karen Collins (African American Miniature Museum) received the 2022 John Wesley Work III award.
Birgit Hannele Wilson, wife of folklorist William A (Bert) Wilson, died January 11, 2023.
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