Special Announcement

After 17 years, the Fund for Folk Culture will be suspending operations and closing its Austin, Texas office as of March 31, 2009. Find out more...>>

Artist Focus on Mark Newberry

Tennessee traditional chairmaker Mark Newberry received a grant from the FFC's Artists Support Program in Round Three to help defray the costs of a new workshop. Read an article from the Fall 2008 issue of Tennessee Arts, a publication of the Tennessee Arts Commission, about the Newberry family's craft. >>

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FFC Working Paper by Maribel Alvarez

After a hiatus, we re-activated our Working Paper series with an article by Dr. Maribel Alvarez, folklorist at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona. The paper Strike a Global Pose: Considerations for Working with Folk and Traditional Cultures in the 21st Century (Downloadable PDF Document 159KB. To view download the Free Adobe Reader.) is the third in our series and was commissioned as part of the FFC’s Changing Demographics Initiative (CDI) underwritten by the Ford Foundation. The paper examines 21st century challenges and strategies facing traditional artists and communities and suggests new ways of working.