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Archive: January 2019 (2 Posts)

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

American Folklife Center Fellowships and Awards 2019

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

2019 Proposals due March 12, 2019 The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress offers three competitive awards in 2019 to support  scholars working with ethnographic collection materials at the Library of Congress and for fieldworkers on folklife and related topics. This year, the American Folklife Center’s Archie Green Fellowship, Parsons Fund Award, and …

Posted in: AFC Awards

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Alabama Folklorist Ruby Pickens Tartt

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

If asked her about her profession, Ruby Pickens Tartt (1880-1974) would say that she was a painter. In an era when Alabama women rarely attended college, she graduated from the Chase School of Art in New York and painted and taught painting for much of her life. But folklorists consider her one of their own. She was …

Posted in: Folklorists, Women's History