On a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in Atlanta, thirty friends gathered at the home of Terrence Hooks and Richard Moultrie with food and drinks for a "block party."

The artists participating in the Citified program represent a range of genres. It has been exciting to meet them and learn about their work

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

We have just added an online exhibition about Malian Bogolan (mud cloth) to the website of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Migdonio Rivas Ríos from Colombia’s Pacific Coast constructs percussion instruments for chirimía ensembles using local materials and techniques

Dozens of Colombian craftspeople participated in the 2011 Festival

As a participant in the Smithsonian’s Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA), I was invited to be a volunteer in the Folklife Festival

As Rahama Wright embarked on a two year Peace Corps assignment in Mali, she had every intention of seizing the opportunity to empower and transform the lives of countless women

Bògòlanfini is a textile traditionally made by Bamana people in Mali, on cloth woven by men, painted by women and worn during times of transition