If you visited the 2014 Folklife Festival, you may have noticed a wacky construction in the Kenya program area with beer bottles and other odds and ends sticking out of the sides.

Isaac Kibe is an artist from Kitengela Glass outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Over the two weeks of the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Upon entering the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival from the west, visitors are greeted by a 30+ meter bamboo flower plaque.

The flower plaque at the entrance to China: Tradition and the Art of Living at the 2014 Folklife Festival prominently features a character named Tian Tian.

Eight days before the opening of the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, participants from Hong Kong began construction on the bamboo flower plaque

Not every Smithsonian staff meeting ends in ceremonial fire.

I met the Welsh blacksmith and dry-stone waller at the perfect moment in my life: with two years of graduate school under my belt, I was fed up with thinking.

Beyond the vast skies over the Kenyan island of Lamu off the shores of East Africa, a beautiful reddish-yellow sunset looms in the west as the moon and stars become faintly visible in the east.

The Hungarian contemporary artist Gábor Miklós Szőke created a large-scale Puli dog sculpture for the Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Koro is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, India, with an estimated six to eight hundred speakers. Khandu Degio