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Writer Maija Rhee Devine’s byung-poong folding screen has been crucial to her entire seventy-nine years of life.
Some jobs in the West traditionally designated to men are done by men or women in Bali. In fact, women in Bali tend to do the heavy lifting.
Makudang-kudang pakaryan ring panegara Barat akehan kakaryanin olih krama lanang, sakewanten ring Bali dados kaambil olih para jana lanang utawi istri.
La Coral Càrmina respon al repte d'arranjar una cançó del catàleg del segell discogràfic Smithsonian Folkways.
The Coral Càrmina of Catalonia answers the challenge to arrange a song from the Smithsonian Folkways catalog.
As a filmmaker, Adeyemi’s work is deeply anchored in an inescapable Black gaze that is banished of racial tropes.
Two leading craft thinkers and makers discuss how craft is shaping their communities and identities during the global pandemic.
The drum circle at OWS was a site of intense joy and conflict, its relentless polyrhythms filling the camp and reverberating throughout the Financial District’s thicket of glass towers.
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