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Makudang-kudang pakaryan ring panegara Barat akehan kakaryanin olih krama lanang, sakewanten ring Bali dados kaambil olih para jana lanang utawi istri.
Worn by lay people since the early Middle Ages, devotional scapulars carry symbols or verses that once connected the wearer to a particular monastic community.
The Coral Càrmina of Catalonia answers the challenge to arrange a song from the Smithsonian Folkways catalog.
One Javanese text describes batik not only as an art form, but also as a method of individual character building.
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.
Gutiérrez’s new studio in Ventura, California, will provide a space for that very diasporic Zapotec community—especially the next generation of Oaxacan youth.
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