Title: The University of Maine - Maine Folklife Center

URL: http://www.umaine.edu/folklife/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: The Maine Folklife Center, sponsored by the University of Maine, looks to promote, preserve, research, teach about, engage communities, and provide public programming in the vernacular arts and culture of Maine and the Maritime Provinces. The Folklife Center also offers a Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History that looks to preserve the oral histories of those who have lived in this area of Maine as well as artifacts of the culture that exists there. The Folklife Center also provides students at University of Maine with an opportunity to complete a minor concentration in folklore and provides them with hands on experience of research.

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Subject:   Folk Life,  Research,  Folk Festivals,  Preservation,  Post-Secondary Education,  Folklife Archives,  Oral Histories

Title: Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies

URL: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/culturalstudies/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: Drawing together students and faculty from various disciplines (Literature, Radio-Television-Film, Ethnomusicology, Theatre and Drama), APCCS provides a forum for engaging with scholarship from a variety of fields and working to synthesize them in the pursuit of distinctive research. Our starting point is ethnographic approaches to performance, representation, visual culture, aesthetics, affect, space, and publics. Our principal attention is geared towards how people perform, produce, and project cultural forms through verbal, visual, musical, kinesthetic, material, and dramatic means.

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Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Ethnography,  Anthropology,  Performance

Title: The Vermont Folklife Center

URL: http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: Founded in 1984, The Vermont Folklife Center is dedicated to preserving and presenting the cultural traditions of Vermont and the surrounding region. The Center attempts to do this through ongoing field research, exhibits, media, and educational projects to bring recognition to the skills, talents, and traditions of Vermonters, past and present. The Center has made a major breakthrough with one area: the preservation of spoken word and have an archive that comprises over 4,500 taped interviews in order to help preserve the traditions that make Vermont unique.

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Subject:   Folklife,  Vermont Folklife Center,  Digital Archives,  Education,  Vermont,  Exhibitions

Title: Virginia Folklife Program

URL: http://www.virginiafolklife.org/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: The Virginia Folklife Program is dedicated to the documentation, presentation, and support of Virginia’s rich cultural heritage. This idea of Virginia’s folklife refers to those “arts of everyday life” that reflect a sense of traditional knowledge and connection to community. This program looks to incorporate fieldwork, preservation of folklife and folk arts, and helping communities throughout Virginia preserve their own cultural traditions. The Virginia Folklife Program completes these goals by receiving funding from Virginia’s Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Subject:   Fieldwork (Educational method),  Folklore,  Folklife,  Apprenticeship,  Virginia,  Folklife specialists,  Arts,  Folk Art,  National Endowment for the Arts

Title: UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance

URL: http://www.wacd.ucla.edu/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: WACD is defined by a dynamic interdisciplinary approach that encourages intercultural literacies and repertoires, including and transcending geography, ethnicity, class, and other distinctions of identity. WACD is designed for self-motivated students who want to study the arts in global and local contexts.

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Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Arts,  Dance,  Cultural Studies

Title: Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art

URL: http://www.wardmuseum.org/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: The Ward Museum looks to expand the world of waterfowl art and merge the ideas of art, culture, and nature. The museum is promoting these goals by exhibiting, collecting, and preserving the wildfowl art and the educational materials around them. Another object of focus for this Museum are the Ward Brothers, who started carving waterfowl and helped generate a business out of their craft.

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Subject:   Animal Art,  Folk Art,  Art Education,  Art Museums,  Museum Exhibits,  Wood Carvers,  Ducks

Title: Western Kentucky University Folk Studies Programs

URL: http://www.wku.edu/folkstudies/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: Western Kentucky University has one of the most successful folklore programs in the United States. Western's Programs in Folk Studies place special emphasis on public folklore and the related areas of folklore and education and historic preservation. Western's Folk Studies Masters Program graduates have an unparalleled rate of success in securing jobs in the discipline, and our graduates perform important, leading roles in public, private, corporate, and academic institutions around the nation.

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Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Preservation,  Public Folklore

Title: Georgia State University Heritage Preservation Program

URL: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwher/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: The Georgia State University Master of Heritage Preservation Program offers compelling opportunities to pursue careers relating to the preservation, restoration, and interpretation of the physical past.

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Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Cultural Conservation,  Heritage,  Architectural History,  Urban History

URL: https://actaonline.org/resource_type/reports/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

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Title: American Folklore Society, American Folklore Society

URL: https://americanfolkloresociety.org

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: Description An association of people who study and communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world. The web site provides content on The AFS Review, the Society's activities, and The Folklore Commons. Description An association of people who study and communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world. The web site provides content on The AFS Review, the Society's activities, and The Folklore Commons.

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Subject:   Cultural Heritage,  Anthropology,  Humanities,  Folklorists,  Professional Associations,  Cultural Heritage,  Anthropology,  Humanities,  Folklorists,  Professional Associations

Title: Folklore Resources @ GMU

URL: https://gmufolklorestudies.pbworks.com/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: Folklore Studies enable students to explore the processes of tradition that move through multiple expressive forms, such as folktales, folk beliefs, folk medicine, folk art, folksong, and literature. A discipline based on ethnographic fieldwork, studies in folklore offer a chance to work in communities and collect living traditional materials that are critical to human identity and values. Interdisciplinary by nature, folklore thrives on local particularities as well as compelling global connections.

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Subject:   Storytelling,  Folklore

Title: Maine Arts Commission

URL: https://mainearts.maine.gov/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

Description: The Maine Arts Commission was created by the state of Main to encourage and stimulate public interest and participation in the cultural heritage and cultural programs of the state. This Commission shall also expand the state’s cultural resources and encourage and assist freedom of artistic expression for the well-being of the arts. The Maine Arts Commission looks to support programs and partnerships that engender a cooperative environment within the arts field that results in more efficient delivery of programs and service as well as programs that build a broad support base for the arts by increasing local capacity for arts-making and the presentation of the arts. The Commission completes these goals by sponsoring art shows, providing grants to artists, and utilizing media outreach to give the artists a stage.

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Subject:   Outreach Programs,  Social Media,  Arts,  Art Appreciation,  Educational Endowments,  Newsletters,  Folk Art,  Performing Arts,  Public Arts,  Grant Proposals,  Directories

URL: https://www.siefhome.org/

Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive

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