“It’s About the Stories that People Are Willing to Tell You”

About the photo: Zuni Pueblo community members, including librarian Jennifer Lonjose (standing), practice eliciting and recording cultural memories by “reading” historical photographs during Mukurtu community training workshop with Guha Shankar (left), at Zuni Tribal...

Growing Right

In Spring 2015, part way through my first year of public folklore graduate study at Western Kentucky University, I approached Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) Education Program Director Renee Hunt fresh on the heels of attending my first OEFFA...

“The art is, in fact, the community”

In the world of ethnic museums, there is often a focus on both art and the everyday life of immigrant communities, often in a historic context. They are often linked, but the focus on art and everyday life as part of historic pasts often forgets the importance of art...

The Sewing Circle Project

Even when immigrants and refugees embrace a move that takes them to a more stable and prosperous place, resettlement poses challenges of physical, psychological,  and cultural adaptation. Many new Americans ease transition by continuing, recreating, or reinventing...

Inspired Learning

by Betty J. Belanus and Charmaine Branch Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~W. B. Yeats Introduction Inspired learning can happen anywhere—at school, in a museum exhibition, at a public program, even in your own kitchen or backyard....