This year’s NYSCA New York State Folk Arts Roundtable took place in Utica from April 3-5. The NYSCA New York State Folk Arts Roundtable is a professional development meeting and convening that draws the state’s folklorists and traditional arts professionals for three...
Month: April 2019
New York Folklore Opens Inaugural Exhibit
New York Folklore opened its exhibition gallery with an exhibition of ebru paintings by Hatice Erbas-Sorkunlu. Hatice Erbas-Sorkunlu is an ebru artist originally from Turkey, currently living in Buffalo. Hatice studied the traditional Turkish tile art of çini at...
New York Local Artist Gears Up to Make an Animated Folktale Film
Rockland County native, Freia M. Titland, is no stranger to combining filmmaking and folklore. Her previous work (Ophelia and Magic and Shakespeare: a Representation of the Times) focuses both on the magical and ethereal and how those elements present themselves in...