Public Folklore Programs and University Museums

by | Aug 26, 2021

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

by | Sep 9, 2020

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...

A Focus on Folklife

by | Sep 9, 2020

Home to wanderers–almost everyone is from somewhere else and brought the best of where they were, to mix and mingle in merry mayhem–a haven surrounded by water topped by magically lit towers springing from glistening waters against a blazing sky–it’s magical. It’s...

Revitalizing Folk Art within the Community

by | Sep 8, 2020

  I want to share with you a series of experiences and bring them into the whole concept of revitalization. In 1971, when I was a student at UCLA, I took a course offered for the first time entitled “Afro­American Folklore and Culture.”  The instructor, who is...

We Are All Essential

by | Sep 7, 2020

  It’s been months of reflection and of emotional stops and starts, as I worked for a path and vision of bigger answers to come through this article. I reviewed my favorite lessons, absorbed the daily news, stoked my Black Nationalist embers, and remembered...