Rooted in Tradition
Being housed at the University of Oregon empowers OFN to provide rich professional development experience. We offer a variety of student opportunities to train emerging public folklorist. Please welcome… Rebecca Pace, a first-year M.A. student in Folklore and Public Culture, working at the OFN for the 2019 – 2020 Academic Year. Originally from Los Angeles, Rebecca… Continue reading OFN Welcomes New Staff
We are happy to announce the return of and updates to our Buckaroo Traditions of Oregon exhibit! This exhibit celebrates the continuity of occupational traditions in rural Oregon and encourages audience understanding and appreciation of art forms arising from ranching practices. Cowboys have made an enduring mark on the American popular imagination but not every cowboy is… Continue reading Buckaroo Exhibit Pairs with Blake Little’s Gay Rodeo Exhibit at MNCH
Congratulations to Roberta J. Kirk for her First Peoples Fund Community Spirit Award! This award honors Roberta Kirk for her beautiful traditional beadwork and regalia as well as her devotion and service to her community and tribe. She has been a master artist in OFN’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and is on the Culture Keepers… Continue reading First Peoples Fund Honors TAAP and Roster Artist, Roberta J. Kirk
UO Folklore graduate students Christal Snyder and Iris Teeuwen conducted fieldwork in Clatsop County with OFN Director, Riki Saltzman, and contract folklorist Douglas Manger (August 23-25, 2019). Christal Snyder also accompanied Saltzman and contract folklorist Joe O’Connell (UO Folklore alumni) in Lincoln County, August 9-11. In Clatsop County, we observed Finnish traditions, foodways, and seaways,… Continue reading Media Corner: Folklife Fieldwork in Northwest Oregon, Student Photo Essay
Douglas Manger Like a twisting myrtlewood tree growing close by the sea, Highway 101 makes its way in circuitous fashion along Oregon’s spectacular Pacific coastline. During the month of August, Joe O’Connell and I trekked this evocative route, flush with names that spark imaginings of what folkways might be found in places like Winchester Bay,… Continue reading Clatsop County Fieldwork
Joseph O’Connell On the central and northern parts of the Oregon coast, worlds meet—land and sea, work and leisure, old and new. In social and cultural terms, no place evokes the region’s contrasts more than Newport’s historic bayfront. Along a short strip of Bay Boulevard, commercial fishing, ocean science, and tourism intermingle. Visitors can buy… Continue reading Sharing the Tides: Notes on Community and Culture in Three Oregon Coast Counties
The Museum of Natural and Cultural History is now accepting nominations for its third annual Oregon Stewardship Award. Spearheaded by the museum’s advisory council, the award recognizes an individual or organization that has involved the community in an environmental or cultural project that aligns with the museum’s mission to inspire stewardship of Oregon’s collective past,… Continue reading Museum of Natural and Cultural History Announces Open Nominations for the 2020 Oregon Stewardship Award