At quilt shows and guild meetings around the United States, quilters perform bed turnings to share the stories about the quilts and the experience of making them.

The first panels of The AIDS Memorial Quilt were sewn in San Francisco in 1987.

UNUKUPUKUPU, which means “Shrine of Ferns [Rooted in Fresh Lava]," is an earth-centric hula group from Hawai`i Community College that aims to bring an awareness of the role and the spirit of hula as a sacred dance into a modern global context.

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

The Citified program of the upcoming Festival grows out of a long-term Anacostia Community Museum initiative, Call and Response, which explores arts and

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

After having seen, heard, touched, tasted, talked, felt, danced, lived and breathed the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival for two weeks

The Colombia program for the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival was an incredible and dynamic success

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