Expressing and Reading Identity through Photographs

How do we construct ideas about identity? During the last century photographic imagery has had a big influence on how we perceive people whose backgrounds and cultures differ from our own. More recently, photography has also served as a social justice tool that youth...

Public Folklore Programs and University Museums

Partnerships explored in this article include: Traditional Arts Indiana at Indiana University’s Mathers Museum by Jon Kay The Kentucky Folklife Program and the Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University by Brent Björkman and Virginia Siegel Michigan Traditional...

Untold Stories, Unsung Heroes

Beauty is around you. You have to discover it and use your heart to feel it.               —Inside Chinatown Participant “Seafood Encounters” is a photo of the fish counter at a local grocery store with a male Chinese worker in the background filleting a fish. The...