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Education
Dr. Duke passed away in December 2017, but his “teaching garden” of medicinal plants lives on in tribute.
Professor Wesley Thomas and graduate student Sharon Nelson have been key to the program’s inception, relevance, and dramatic growth.
Each year, our understanding of how to juxtapose European classical and traditional Navajo music deepens.
The Pocahontas Reframed: Storytellers Film Festival opens November 15 in Richmond, Virginia.
In this video, you will meet spiritual leaders, students, faculty, and staff at a Navajo Technical University graduation ceremony in Crownpoint, New Mexico.
With the summer term fast approaching, new interns at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage may wonder how their experience here will help prepare them for future work experiences.
Long considered austere, labyrinthine institutions, museums are keeping pace in today’s cultural landscape with new educational programming focused squarely on visitors.
In “The Urgency of Empathy and Social Impact in Museums,” Mike Murawski, director of education and public programs at the Portland Art Museum, called on museums to foster dialogue
Using the power of their video camera and insightful questions, last year two budding folklorists helped save an ancient craft tradition in India.
GALACTIC now hosts GALACTIC@SI, a living classroom at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Folklife Magazine explores how culture shapes our lives. We publish stories about music, food, craft, language, celebrations, activism, and the individuals and communities who sustain these traditions.