The NAMES Project Foundation is co-producing the Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding the AIDS Memorial Quilt Folklife Festival program as a prelude to their participation in the XIX International AIDS Conference.
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival mourns the passing of Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go.
May 15, 2012 marks the exact 150th anniversary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The Citified program of the upcoming Festival grows out of a long-term Anacostia Community Museum initiative, Call and Response, which explores arts and
As part of the Campus and Community Festival Program, the UC Davis “Bags Across the Globe” (BAG) project will be creating a large sculpture in the shape of a globe from discarded plastic bags.
Today, May 4, artist Keith Haring would have turned fifty-four years old. Haring—a New York-based artist whose drawings, paintings, and public artwork
On Saturday, March 3, the Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt program staff and documentation team got a glimpse of what will be happening inside the Quilting Bee tent
The 2012 Campus and Community: 150 Years of Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA Festival program includes partnerships with, to date, about 20 universities and various parts of the USDA.
This July I had the privilege to serve as an interpreter and presenter at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program Colombia: La Naturaleza de la Cultura
In early December, Cristina Díaz-Carrera and I eagerly travelled to Bogotá to witness and enjoy the re-staging of the Colombia: The Nature of Culture 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program