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West Virginia Folklife Collection Now Online Via WVU Libraries

West Virginia Folklife is thrilled to announce that its digital archives collection, The West Virginia Folklife Collection, is now accessible online through the West Virginia and Regional History Center at West Virginia University Libraries. The collection may be viewed at https://wvfolklife.lib.wvu.edu/

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The anniversary issue of @blackbygodwv "WV Pride: From Juneteenth to Father’s Day and West Virginia Day" is now available, and this latest issue features a photo of the Mollett family taken on Memorial Day 2022 in Edwight, WV. Generations of the Mollett family have gathered at the historically Black cemetery in Edwight every year since 1959 to clean and decorate the gravesites of their family and neighbors. Read more about this event on our blog - link in the bio
The West Virginia Folklife Program, a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council, is now accepting applications for its statewide Folklife Apprenticeship Program. The program supports West Virginia master traditional artists or tradition bearers working with qualified apprentices on a year-long in-depth apprenticeship in their cultural expression or traditional art form. These apprenticeships of traditional music, dance, craft, foodways, storytelling, and more—in any cultural community in the Mountain State—facilitate the transmission of techniques and artistry of the forms as well as their histories and traditions.
We are pleased to announce that for the past year we have been partnering with @midatlanticarts on their Central Appalachia Living Traditions project, or CALT. CALT promotes the understanding and recognition of folk arts and culture in Appalachian counties of Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia through a 3-part program that invests in folk arts communities while seeding new folk and traditional arts experiences and honoring underrecognized practitioners of traditions across the region.
@fieldsdoris will be premiering her video "Those Who Came Before"
On Saturday, April 23rd, Carnegie Hall, Inc. and the Ronceverte Public Library hosted a celebration of the new Legends & Lore roadside marker located on the corner of Walnut and W Main Street in Ronceverte. The marker is dedicated to the salt rising bread tradition. It reads: "Appalachian women make salt rising bread without yeast. First known recipe from Rena Scott of Ronceverte. Dated 1778."
Please join us at 12PM EST on Thursday, May 5th –The International Day of the Midwife– for a *pre-recorded* apprenticeship showcase featuring midwife Angy Nixon of Putnam County and her apprentice Christine Weirick of Fayette County. The pair recently completed their 2020-2021 apprenticeship with the West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program.
The West Virginia Folklife Program hosted an apprenticeship showcase titled The Power of Storytelling in Midwifery at the historic MacFarland-Hubbard House in Charleston, home of the West Virginia Humanities Council.
Here is another collection of photos from recent visits with some of the previous participants of the West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program.
An exciting new folk and traditional arts grant is now available with Mid Atlantic Arts!

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