It is hard to celebrate the good work that Oregon Folklife Network has accomplished in the first part of 2022 while violence in the U.S. and globally reveals tremendous suffering caused by intolerance. When asked how America appears from the outside, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Admiral James Stavridis replied, “we lose the ability to step… Continue reading →
Francisco Bautista, a Zapotec fabric artist, is a 2021 TAAP award recipient. Listen to a short excerpt from Bautista’s TAAP interview with OFN Interim Director Emily Hartlerode and graduate employee Jenna Ehlinger. Bautista worked with his son David for the TAAP program. Bautista was born in the town of Teotitlán de Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico.… Continue reading →
This folklife fieldwork internship was funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Folk & Traditional Arts program, to document culture keepers in the southern Oregon counties of Josephine, Jackson, and Douglas. Olivia Wilkinson has been working with OFN’s folklore specialist and retired executive director, Riki Saltzman, to learn how… Continue reading →
This year OFN welcomed University of Oregon graduate employees Lillian DeVane and Yosser Saidane. Thank you for your work in supporting our programs! Former OFN graduate employee and intern Iris Teeuwen returned as a program specialist, and focused on streamlining the Oregon Culture Keepers Roster, one of our core programs. Olivia Wilkinson joined the OFN… Continue reading →
by Riki Saltzman, Folklorist, High Desert Museum/Folklore Specialist, Oregon Folklife Network During the weekend of May 14-15, 2022, the High Desert Museum featured three programs with culture keepers from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Lake County, and Grant County. The culmination of nearly two years of documenting traditions in the High Desert and around… Continue reading →
We are excited to introduce the 2022 TAAP awardee cohort! The TAAP program offers folk and traditional master artists and culture keepers a $3,500 stipend to teach their art form to apprentices from their same communities, Tribes, sacred or occupational groups. The stipend supports master artists in sharing their knowledge, skills and expertise with apprentices… Continue reading →
