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OFN’s Culture Keeper, Inna Kovtun Wins Prestigious Taproot Fellowship Award

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Inna Kovtun

  On May 21, 2025—The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) announced the second year of the Taproot Fellowship, a project of ACTA’s Taproot Artists & Community Trust created to uplift culture bearers whose work is more vital than ever in confronting the social fractures of our time. One of Oregon’s culture keepers, Inna Kovtun,… Continue reading OFN’s Culture Keeper, Inna Kovtun Wins Prestigious Taproot Fellowship Award →

Folklorist Feature: Linnea Hill

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Linnea Hill

  The Oregon Folklife Network regularly hosts Graduate Student Employees who are a part of the Masters in Folklore program at the University of Oregon. Linnea Hill, who was a 2023-24 graduate student employee with the Oregon Folklife Network, is graduating this Spring term and has been offered a prestigious internship opportunity with the American Folklife… Continue reading Folklorist Feature: Linnea Hill →

Oregon’s Culture Keepers Attend Annual Community Gathering

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roup photo of all attendees at the 2025 Culture Keepers Gathering

  On April 25-27, 2025, Oregon Folklife Network hosted a “Culture Keeper Gathering” at Bend’s High Desert Museum.  Twenty-one traditional artists with profiles on OFN’s Oregon Culture Keepers Roster gathered to share traditions, discuss values, brainstorm needed resources, and build community.   Notedly, this group’s greatest strength is found in their diversity: together, attending artists represented… Continue reading Oregon’s Culture Keepers Attend Annual Community Gathering →

The “Gathering” Returns for its Second Year

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Participant of 2019 Master Artist Gathering in Bend OR. Photo from Oregon Folklife Network.

  On Friday, April 25th through Sunday, April 27th, Oregon Folklife Network will host a “Roster Artist Gathering” in Bend, Oregon. Twenty-one traditional artists with profiles on OFN’s Oregon Culture Keepers Roster responded to our invitation to convene for a weekend to build community, share traditions, and discuss values and concerns affecting culture keepers today. Ten Oregon… Continue reading The “Gathering” Returns for its Second Year →

2025 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Recipients Announced

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  EUGENE, Ore. – (February 18, 2025) – Four traditional artists in Oregon will receive a $3,500 stipend to teach traditional art forms to apprentices from the same cultural communities, Tribes, sacred, or occupational groups. The Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) is one way the Oregon Folklife Network supports traditional artists, or Culture Keepers, in… Continue reading 2025 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Recipients Announced →