Urban Explorers is a youth development program by City Lore in New York City that uses the skills of documentation and fieldwork.
Folk Arts Education
Common Ground: Community-based Teaching, Learning, and Environmental Stewardship in Art Centers, Museums, and Places of Learning
This is the transcript from a panel discussion with Indigenous artists about community based teaching and learning that took place during the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society (AFS).
From the Waterfront
Students in Freeport, New York examine their waterfront community in 2015-16 after Superstorm Sandy had affected local maritime traditions.
Music and Food in Multicultural Syracuse
Ethnomusicologist, Sydney Hutchinson, reports on a fieldwork based course at Syracuse University that engaged students with the city’s diverse tradition bearers.
Analysis and Intuition: Reflections on the Mystic Union of Measure and Abandon in the Art of Figure Drawing
An essay regarding the educational training of artists to engage students in both analytical and intuitive mental faculties.
Critical Thinking, Wisdom, and Paying Homage to the Human Experience
An essay about critical thinking.
Camp Woodland Memories Inspire A Poem
A description of Camp Woodland, and a song by Mickey VanDow.
Fishing partners: Remembering Cory Weyant
A remembrance about Cory Weyant, Long Island Bayman/fisherman who was a frequent speaker to school groups. A “View From the Waterfront” column of Nancy Solomon
Ethnic Folklore and the School Art Curriculum
Using folklore genres to engage secondary school students, the author dicusses the use of folklore in the art classroom.