A museum curator and folklorist, Edward Y Millar explores exhibit design and interpretation in this essay.
Public Folklore
Haudenosaunee Days of Sharing at Explore & More Children’s Museum in Buffalo, NY
Interviews with and profiles of Haudenosaunee artists involved in public sector folklore programs at the Explore & More Children’s Museum, Buffalo.
Pagentry Puppets, Community Memory, and Living Traditions: Extending the Reach of Cultural and Educational Institutions into Immigrant Communities
The author, a folkorist, examines folk culture in museum settings and the work of three museums (The Queens Museum, The Brooklyn Historical Society, and Teatro SEA) engaging museum audiences and making community connections.
Maritime Folklfe of New York City’s Forgotten Borough
Fieldwork-based study, Staten Island’s “Working Waterfront” Project and a discription of the resulting programs as a model for public sector folklore scholarship.
Transcendence: Making Meaning with American Public Folklore Diplomacy Programming in Nanjing, China
A report about Public Folklore Diplomacy in China, a 2014-2015 program through the American Culture Centers in China.
Democratizing the (Folk) Arts Nonprofit Workplace
This review essay describes a workshop on worker cooperatives and workplace practices held in 2016 through the auspices of New York Folklore.
An Interview with Hannah Davis
An interview with Hannah Davis, Upstate Regional Folklorist for New York Folklore about her new role.
Follow Spot: Growing the Ranks
An essay about the founding of Women of Color in the Arts, by Kaisha Johnson.
Remembering Jean (1964-2011)
A series of remembrances about Folklorist, Jean Crandall (1964-2011)
Artist Spotlight: Nada Odeh
Nada Odeh is a Syrian artist, activist, humanitarian, and a modern-day poet. She was born and raised in Damascus and lived in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates before coming to the U.S. in 2013 due to the conflict and revolution in her country. Nada received ...