El Herbario de Coquí

La organización sin ánimo de lucro Casa Múcura ha estado trabajando por más de siete años con la comunidad del corregimiento de Coquí, Chocó, en la costa Pacífica colombiana, en múltiples proyectos participativos que buscan valorar, promover y preservar los saberes y...

The Herbarium of Coquí

The nonprofit organization Casa Múcura has been working with the community of the village of Coquí, Chocó, in Colombia’s Pacific coast, for seven years in multiple participatory projects aimed at valorizing, promoting, and preserving traditional knowledge and...

Common Threads

Introduction Many influential figures in the Appalachian Craft Revival (1896-1937) lauded handwoven overshot coverlets as one of the finest expressions of the region’s handicraft traditions (e.g., Hall 1912). As a wave of university-educated women arrived from the...

Unwritten Presence

There is knowledge that refuses the page. Knowledge that arrives on the breath, in the bend of fingers, in the hush before a voice takes hold of the air. There is wisdom that cannot be footnoted, pedagogies older than the school—more fluid than text, more precise than...

Documentary Arts

For more than four decades, Documentary Arts has introduced and employed innovative interdisciplinary methodologies to broaden public knowledge and appreciation of the arts of different cultures in all media, from photographs, films, and videos to studio and field...