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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Wisconsin Folks site is a branch of the Wisconsin Arts Board that showcases folk artists throughout the state. The highlighted artists are members of traditional communities throughout Wisconsin and use their talents to showcase their heritage. The artists of the Wisconsin Folks come from different backgrounds including Greek, Chinese, Korean, Iraqi, Cuban, Ho Chunk, and other cultures that inhabit the state. This organization looks to showcase the talent of these artists and their cultures.
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Subject: Wisconsin Arts Board, Field Teaching, Education, Folk Art , Folk dance music--Wisconsin, Folk Artists
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Alliance for California Traditional Arts is the only state organization focused on all folk and traditional arts. Recognized for its culturally competent leadership, intellectual capital, and excellence in program administration, ACTA is the California Arts Council's official partner in serving the state's folk and traditional arts field. Dedicated to sustaining and fostering the growth of cultural traditions found within the California’s diverse communities, ACTA ensures that its core values of respect, cultural pluralism, and cultural democracy permeate every aspect of its activity and programming. ACTA helps people connect to their past and keep traditions a central part of life today and tomorrow. By supporting folk and traditional artists, ACTA supports the health, cultural continuity and diversity of California.
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Subject: California, Folk Art , Folk Artists
Creator: Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Publisher: Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Wisconsin Arts Board has produced Wisconsin Folks as a portal to allow for the public to interact with the traditional artists of Wisconsin. The site features over seventy traditional and ethnic folk artists from all over Wisconsin to allow for the citizens of Wisconsin to learn about their art, cultural life, and discover links with cultural arts in their community. Through the site’s focus on the intersection of culture and art, it is possible to connect the students of Wisconsin with the ideas of cultural recognition and the production of folk art.
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Subject: Folk Art , Folk Artists , Wisconsin, Wisconsin Arts Board, Education, Art Education, Folk dance music
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: Long Island Traditions documents the culture and folk around the Long Island area. This group, in part, focuses on the local architecture that surrounds the area including bay houses, garden apartments, and farm buildings. Since Long Island has a disappearing maritime and farming culture, the Long Island Traditions is looking to preserve the traditions of this culture. Since Long Island has a wealth of diverse ethnic cultures they support major cultural activities including Irish stepdance, African American quilting, and Jewish klezmer music. By employing field interviews and oral histories, Long Island Traditions looks to preserve the cultural heritage of the people of the Island as well as break down boundaries between existing groups.
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Subject: Oral Histories, Folk Art , Historic Preservation, Ethnic Groups, Traditions, Education, Folk Artists , Architectural History
Creator: Long Island Traditions
Type: Web Archive
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