Category: Media Features

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 →

Media Corner-Alseny Yansane (Guinean drummer and dancer) 2018-2019 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program

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Traditional skill/art/craft: Guinean drumming and dancing 2016-2017 Apprentice: Mamadouba “Papa” Yansane Filmed by: Emily West Hartlerode Edited by: Erin Wai Watch Alseny’s previous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd2jv… Learn more about Alseny and the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program at Oregon Folklife Network https://mnch.uoregon.edu/taap-awardee…

Artist Spotlight: Francisco Bautista

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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 Artist Spotlight: Francisco Bautista →

The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians

In partnership with Oregon’s nine federally recognized Tribes and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, OFN is producing a series of documentary shorts. We’re pleased to feature one of those videos, which provides a Native perspective on Oregon’s history and shows the ongoing work of cultural conservation and preservation. The Cow Creek Band of… Continue reading The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians →

Media Corner: Hoplore

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Click to Watch Video and Exhibit by Makaela Kroin Hoplore: Hop Culture in Oregon, OFN’s newest exhibit, traces over 150 years of hops cultivation in Oregon through worker profiles, farm tools, historical photographs, and a short documentary. While Oregon’s heritage hop yards are 3rd and 4th-generation family businesses, small hop farms are enjoying a renaissance throughout… Continue reading Media Corner: Hoplore →

New Video Premiere: TAAP Awardees Nisha and Shivani Joshi

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Nisha Joshi (Portland) is an internationally celebrated performer of classical Rajasthani Indian music, and one of OFN’S 2012 TAAP awardees. The Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program provided the necessary funding for Joshi to pass along the lesser known Rajasthani Folk Music to her apprentice, Shivani Joshi. Check out Nisha and Shivani’s new video at the Oregon… Continue reading New Video Premiere: TAAP Awardees Nisha and Shivani Joshi →