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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
The American Folklife Center announces the launch of the Chicago 1977: People, Places, and Cultures transcription campaign, as part of the Library of Congress By the People volunteer transcription initiative, and based on the Center's Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection from 1977.
Posted in: AFC History, Fieldwork, Folklorists, Volunteer
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
Folklife Specialist Nancy Groce announces a new American Folklife Center archival collection, the Warp and Weft of Yap’s Outer Islands: Backstrap Weaving in Micronesia, as supported through the Center's Community Collections Grant program.
Posted in: Acquisitions, AFC Awards, Community Collections Grants, Pacific Islander History
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post is an excerpt of an interview with 2024 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant recipient Dr. Ashley Minner Jones on her project, Beyond Baltimore Street: Living Lumbee Legacies, as part of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
Posted in: AFC Awards, Fieldwork, Maryland, Native American History
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
Aarti Mehta-Kroll, co-leader of the 2024 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant project, Documenting Goombay and Little Bahamas of Coconut Grove, discusses the project's focus and plans.
Posted in: AFC Awards, Caribbean Americans, Fieldwork
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
The American Folklife Center announces its new Story Map, California Gold: Sidney Robertson Cowell, 1930s California Folk Music, and the American Folklife Center, which follows the folk music collector, Sidney Robertson on her late 1930s trip to document musicians, singers, and their families and communities in California.
Posted in: AFC Publications, Fieldwork, Folklorists, Sidney Robertson Cowell
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post is an announcement of the 2024 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants recipients, whose work will become collections in the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Posted in: AFC Awards
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
The following is an excerpt of an interview with Tameshia Rudd-Ridge and Jourdan Brunson of the Dallas, Texas Community Collections Grant project, If Tenth Street Could Talk, as part of the Library of Congress Of the People blog series featuring awardee of the American Folklife Center's Community Collections Grant program.
Posted in: AFC Awards, African American History
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post summarizes the second roundtable presentations of the distinguished panelists of the American Folklife Center's Community-driven Archives discussion event, which was held in September 2023 and is now available online.
Posted in: AFC Events, Archival Practice, Intangible Cultural Heritage
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post, which is the first in a two-part series, is co-authored with folklorist Robert Baron and provides a summary of the first roundtable of the American Folklife Center's Community-driven Archives online discussion event, held in September 2023 and now available online.
Posted in: AFC Events, Archival Practice, Intangible Cultural Heritage