What comes to mind when you hear the word “folklore”?

¡Aparato! The word conjures up imagery of mechanization, of machine-man música, perhaps a throbbing techno beat punctuated by a bilingual binary code.

Torres is the founder and executive/artistic director of IFE-ILE, a Miami-based nonprofit organization.

In the past, textile production held a special place in the country of Georgia’s arts and culture.

In June and July 2014, more than a hundred culture bearers traveled from China to the National Mall of the United States in Washington, D.C., to participate in the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program.

In the September 2014 national Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation Forum, preservationists, historians, planners, and advocates of Asian and Pacific Islander culture in America gathered to address issues of cultural heritage.

This month I gave a presentation at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage about Georgia, the country I am from. I tried hard but could not share everything I wanted to about Georgian culture in forty minutes.

As you enter the reception area of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, a distinctively carved limestone block anchors the far edge of the seating area. It is, in fact, a beautifully carved Welsh apex stone.

James Rojas is busy. In 2014, he worked in over ten cities across seven states. In early February 2015, he had just finished leading a tour of East Los Angeles’s vernacular landscape.

Architects and architecture seem especially well suited to the cinema.