by Emily Hartlerode Each year we ask culture keepers to please review your personal artist page for accuracy. Here’s how: Visit the Culture Keepers Roster Type your name into the Name box and click Search. Your profile should come up. Review your contact information, fees, and programming, then fill the roster survey to indicate your… Continue reading →
by Emily Hartlerode OFN is helping Osher Lifelong Learning fill three dates with a few short programs (from 1-3pm) for retired professionals passionate about engaging with community and pursuing active learning. The program starts with a 30-minute introduction by OFN explaining our mission and how to use the Culture Keepers Roster. Your one-hour artist presentation… Continue reading →
In partnership with the Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+), Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) is launching a dynamic six-month program that will empower, nurture, and celebrate 20 talented Native craft artists.For the purpose of this program, “craft artist” is defined as artists who create or reproduce handmade objects for sale and exhibition using… Continue reading →
by Emily Hartlerode The University of Oregon’s Oregon Folklife Network is accepting applications until Monday, October 2, 2023 for the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) for projects in 2024. The program offers traditional artists and culture keepers a $3,500 stipend to teach their cultural practices to apprentices from their same communities, Tribes, sacred or occupational groups. The stipend supports master artists… Continue reading →
by Emily Hartlerode It feels like Summer has been in full swing since May, when the damp Spring typical of Oregon’s Willamette Valley was chased off early by unseasonably hot temperatures. Weather comes through so many human senses that tug at memory in mysterious ways. Born and raised in Nebraska, I still sense an internal… Continue reading →
The American Folklore Society invites you to submit a proposal for its 135th Annual Meeting to be held virtually October 11-12, 2023 and in Portland, Oregon, November 1-4. The theme of the conference is Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting. The proposal window is March 1-31. The 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society will bring hundreds… Continue reading →
by Emily West Hartlerode Amid the busy year-end holidays, OFN received sad news that 2007 National Heritage Fellow, Pat Courtney Gold passed away on July 11, 2022. We delayed our announcement to give space from holiday distractions to let this news to have its own time. Wasq’u basketmaker and citizen of the Confederated Tribes of… Continue reading →
Eugene—Oregon Folklife Network is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $45,000. This grant will support Culture Fest 2023 in Southern Oregon, and support access to decolonization trainings by Live Oaks Consulting. This grant is one of 1,251… Continue reading →
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 →
The University of Oregon’s Oregon Folklife Network has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts plus $40,000 from Oregon Arts Commission to support Oregon’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. Oregon Folklife Network is accepting applications until January 21, 2022 for the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) for projects in 2022. The program offers… Continue reading →
