With participants arriving in less than two weeks, the Festival’s Supply Team has been rapidly amassing materials for each program.
West Virginia University is providing a new take on what you might consider folklife in Appalachia.
The 2012 Folklife Festival features a very eclectic series of evening concerts. Curators Jim Deutsch and Mark Puryear provide a preview of the following concerts
In preparation for this summer’s Folklife Festival, the Citified staff team met up with the program participants at the Anacostia Community Museum on Saturday
My name is Kevin Crane, but everyone knows me as Chili. My role with The Names Project Foundation is as the warehouse manager.
My first week interning for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival ended with a trip out into "the field" to meet some of the people who will be sharing their life experiences
My name is Jada Harris. I am the director of programs at The NAMES Project Foundation.
Calling all photographers! The 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Flickr Group is now open.
My name is Gert McMullin. I have been working with The Quilt since May 1987 in Quilt production and sewing at The NAMES Project Foundation.
Whoa--the festival is only a few weeks out! Time is flying! There’s still so much that the Participant Staff needs to get done.