State & Regional Links

Alabama State Council on the Arts/Folklife
Links to ASCA's Folklife Program, Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, and Alabama Folklife Association.

Arkansas: Ozark Folk Center
Preserving and presenting Ozark crafts, music and dance in a State Park.

Florida Folklife Program
Division of Historical Resources, FL Dept of State, featuring Folk Heritage Awards, Folklife in Education, Apprenticeships, Folk Festival, Rural Folklife Days, calendar of events, etc.

Iowa Folklife at the Iowa Arts Council
Resource directory, education guide, annual institute, state festival, Iowa Ethnic Heritage Association.

Louisiana Folklife
Includes Louisiana Folklife Program with the Division of the Arts; Lousiana Living Traditions; and Louisiana Voices: An Educator's Guide to Exploring Our Communities and Traditions.

Maine Folklife Center
And the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History at the University of Maine in Orono.

Maine: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
A school, gallery, archive, and publisher of Salt magazine located in Portland.

Michigan State University Museum
Michigan folklife with festivals, publications, education programs, apprenticeships, exhibitions, research, collections.

Mississippi: Center for the Study of Southern Cultures
Academic program, archives, publisher of Living Blues (magazine) and other resources in Oxford.

Missouri Folk Arts Program
Projects, guide to folk art and artists, research, educational materials at the Missouri Arts Council.

Nevada: Western Folklife Center
Cowboy Poets, Voices of Youth

New Mexico: Museum of International Folk Art
Exhibitions, education, publications at this unit of the Museum of New Mexico in Sante Fe.

New York Folklore Society
Publications, conferences, Mentoring Grants, professional network with office in Schenectady.

New York: CityLore
New York City Culture Calendar, People's Hall of Fame, Endangered Spaces, American Talkers.

New York: TAUNY
Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, based in Canton near the Canadian border, celebrates the customs and creativity of everyday life in northern New York.

Ohio: Cityfolk
Dayton's traditional and ethnic presenting organization.

Vermont Folklife Center
Folk art gallery and shop, educational resource center, archive in Middlebury.

West Virginia: Augusta Heritage Center
Dedicated to making traditional music, crafts, dancing and folklore available to visitors and residents, at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins.