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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The mission of the Alaska Native Heritage Center is to share, perpetuate and preserve the unique Alaska Native culture, languages, traditions and values through celebration and education. The Center does this by promoting the arts and languages of these people through programs in school and at the Center that focus on the culture around these arts and languages. The Center also focuses on preserving the past as well as establishing a clear idea of the present culture of the people in this area.
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Subject: Art Education , Culture, Languages, Education, Folk Culture, Folk Museums, Indigenous Arts, Indigenous People
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Maryland State Arts Council is a government sponsored organization that seeks to encourage the citizens of Maryland to appreciate and create art. This is done through grants and programs that look to encourage not-for-profit organizations and emerging artists to produce art that helps define culture for Maryland. The website for Maryland State Arts Council builds a bridge between the arts of Maryland and the people of Maryland. This site showcases education in the arts of Maryland to allow for educators to incorporate the arts in their classroom. The artists section displays the people from around the state that makes Maryland a cultural hub.
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Subject: Maryland, Maryland State Arts Council, Arts, Research Grants, Art Education , Folklife, Community arts projects
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The mission of the Illinois Arts Council Agency is to build a strong, creative, and connected Illinois through the arts and they attempt to accomplish this through government means. The council is governed by up to twenty-one private citizens chosen by the governor for their commitment to the arts. The council provides programs, technical assistance, and ensures the responsible and impactful distribution of all funds. The Illinois Arts Council Agency also looks to support Illinois’ arts sector, advance arts education, foster creativity, and encourage working artists.
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Subject: Arts, Grants, Government Departments, Art Education , Education, Educational Endowments, Folk Dancers, Folk Music, Folk Artists
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Mississippi Arts Commission is a government body that exists to promote arts in Mississippi through programming and administrative means. It is a grant giving body that employs government help to provide for all citizen participation in the arts as well as ties arts in Mississippi to economic growth and development. Besides the grant giving aspect of the Commission there are also the roles that the commission plays in the arts around Mississippi. These tasks include: fostering networks of local leaders and volunteers among arts of all disciplines, consult on community arts programs, and lastly provide training in managing the arts, art education planning, and community wide cultural planning.
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Subject: Public Art, Art, Government Departments, Art Education , Poetry, Writing, Folk Art, Music
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: Washington State Arts Commission was established by The Washington State Legislature in 1961. The Commission does this through being economic drivers by creating jobs as well as educational assets by putting on educational programs for K-12 students. Another tool the Commission uses is to preserve the arts of Washington and make sure that they are accessible to the people of the state.
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Subject: Washington, Public Art, Art Education , Folk Art, Washington State Arts Commission
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Brooklyn Arts Council looks to utilize the benefits of the Brooklyn Community by showcasing the arts from this area of Manhattan as well as fiscally supporting them. The Brooklyn Arts Council supports the visual artists, dancers, and musicians of this community through grants and providing space for them to perform or display their art. This council is also heavily involved in encouraging arts in schools by providing Arts in Education, a program that looks to immerse teachers and students in educational arts experiences in the full range of arts disciplines.
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Subject: Folk Art, Music, Visual Arts, Culture, Communities, Dance, Folk Dance, Art Education , Grants
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
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