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…
Fall 2022 brought exciting change to the Oregon Folklife Network. We launched our newly updated Culture Keepers Roster full of new features that readers like you requested. A cohort of new graduate students originating from four different countries joined OFN’s newly hired Program Coordinator, adding staff language fluency in Spanish, Arabic, French, and Ukrainian. We… Continue reading →
Oregon Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Announces New Application Deadline Extended to October 31, 2022 EUGENE, Ore. – (Sept 28, 2022) – 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… Continue reading →
We are actively seeking funding to establish an advisory council of traditional artists and cultural services administrators to help guide our 3-year strategic plan and 10-year vision of statewide folk and traditional arts programming. Are you interested in serving? Artist council member positions will be paid, and terms of service will be defined by the… Continue reading →
OFN welcomes Timothy Herrera as the new program coordinator. Timothy recently graduated with a PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon and has previous experience as a program coordinator for Centro Latino Americano. In addition to bringing deep skills for working reciprocally with communities, Timothy is a Spanish speaker. He will be the… Continue reading →
EUGENE, Ore. – (Sept 8, 2022) – 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. TAAP is also funded in part by the Oregon Historical Society and University of Oregon.… Continue reading →
You asked and we listened. OFN’s newly revised Culture Keepers Roster incorporates numerous changes you requested. Please check out the new format and review your personal artist page before we make a public announcement about the new site. You can send your approval or request for edits through our roster survey. Here’s how: Visit the… 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 →
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 →
