We are excited to announce that West Virginia Folklife, a program of the West Virginia Humanities Council, received a Folk and Traditional Arts Experiences grant from Mid Atlantic Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions program (CALT) to work collaboratively with the Mountain Weavers Guild in Elkins, West Virginia on a project titled “An Archival and Ethnographic…
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Apply for a Legends & Lore Marker Grant
Legends & Lore Marker Grant Program Seeking Applications Application Deadline: April 29, 2024Next window to apply: August 26, 2024 – October 14, 2024 The William G. Pomeroy Foundation is accepting applications for its Legends & Lore Marker Grant Program. The program highlights local folklife and promotes cultural tourism in the participating states in the United…
“Still Inventing:” A Fiber Arts Apprenticeship between Life-Long Friends
This article is published in the Fall 2023 issue of Goldenseal Magazine. It is written by West Virginia State Folklorist Jennie Williams and edited by Laiken Blankenship. The article is based on an interview recorded by the State Folklorist with the Folklife Apprenticeship pair on March 22, 2023. Barbara Weaner and Enrica McMillon have been…
Save the Dates for the WV Folklife Apprenticeship Showcases
We are celebrating our participants with three West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program showcases! Free and open to the public.
We Can Build Mountains: Aristotle Jones and Soul Music in Appalachia
“Appalachian Soul Man” Aristotle Jones is a professional musician and radio personality who is carrying on his music tradition in Osage where his grandfather and extended family have lived.
Scotts Run Resonance – Passing it Forward
West Virginia-based Scotts Run Settlement House, The Shack Neighborhood House, and the Scotts Run Museum & Trail have announced Scotts Run Resonance—Passing It Forward with support from Mid Atlantic Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions (CALT) program. This initiative includes a year of events and classes to exchange wisdom and pass on traditions of foodways, history…
West Virginia Day 2023
Join us at the historic MacFarland-Hubbard House as we mark West Virginia’s 160th birthday. This year’s featured speaker is Emily Hilliard, our former state folklorist, who will discuss her recent book–Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia.
Announcing the 2022-2023 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Participants
We are pleased to announce our 2022-2023 cohort of apprenticeship participants in the third round of the West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Seven apprenticeship pairs from across the Mountain State will study and practice traditions including soul food cooking, fiddle repair, and mushroom foraging. The Folklife Apprenticeship Program offers $3,000 to recognize and honor West…
West Virginia Folklife Collection at West Virginia University Libraries Receives American Folklore Society’s Brenda McCallum Prize
The West Virginia Folklife Program, a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council, is honored to announce that the West Virginia Folklife Collection housed at the West Virginia University Libraries has received the Brenda McCallum Prize, an award sponsored by the Archives and Libraries Section of the American Folklore Society. The West Virginia Folklife Collection…
Mollett Family featured in Black By God
The anniversary issue of Black By God – WV Pride: From Juneteenth to Father’s Day and West Virginia Day is now available! This latest issue features a photo of the Mollett Family taken on Memorial Day 2022. Multiple generations of the family gathered to clean and decorate gravesites, tell stories, and honor their ancestors and…
2022-2023 Folklife Apprenticeship Applications and Guidelines Now Available
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.
Partnership with Central Appalachia Living Traditions
For the past year we have been partnering with Mid Atlantic Arts 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…
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