VFC’s Collection to Reach National Audience
This month Jane Beck Folklife Fellow, archivist Susan Creighton provides an overview of the next phase of the National Folklore Archive Initiative, a project funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Hogwarts comes to 88 3/4 Main Street!
Check out photos from the VFC’s 21st Annual Gingerbread House Competition and Exhibit! This year’s theme was “Christmas at Hogwarts Castle.”
Education Reflections: Discovering Community in Proctor
At this year’s Discovering Community Summer Institute for Educators, the Discovering Community team were fortunate to be joined by Proctor High School educator Linda McCuen. In this post, Linda reflects on the implementation of her collaborative ethnography project and what her students learned in asking their community “What does it mean to be an American?”
Brattleboro Bonanza!
Attention southern Vermont friends! This fall and winter the Vermont Folklife Center is bringing events and workshops to ‘the one-and-only’ Brattleboro. We are YOUR Folklife Center and we’re committed to bringing our work closer to you by sharing exhibits and films with statewide partners, holding workshops and presentations, and connecting with you in your own home towns. Check out the event listings here!
A "Very Vermont" Summer Institute!
This year’s Discovering Community Summer Institute for Educators was held at The Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury. Faculty included Discovering Community educators Trish Denton and Mary Wesley, VFC’s Archivist Andy Kolovos, and visiting scholar West Virginia State Folklorist Emily Hilliard. With the support of a handful of key community members, we were able to weave together a wonderful, place-based program to discover the unique community that is St. Johnsbury today.
Traditional Arts Apprenticeships
In this month’s From the Archives post, Jane Beck Folklife Fellow Susan Creighton looks at the Vermont Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program collection.
Now Accepting Applications - Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program
The Vermont Folklife Center is now accepting applications for the 2019-2020 Vermont Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. For over twenty-five years this program has supported master artists in the teaching and passing along of their knowledge and artistry.
LGBTQ+ Experiences
This month Jane Beck Folklife Fellow, archivist Susan Creighton highlights several collections about LGBTQ experiences in Vermont, as part of June’s Pride Month celebrations.
Traditional Arts Apprenticeshp Program Comics
As a part of our Vermont Cartooning and Culture Project, cartoonist Iona Fox visited with three participants in the Vermont Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and created a series comics about them.
Remembering Martha
This month Jane Beck Folklife Fellow, archivist Susan Creighton discusses the Martha Pellerin Collection of Franco-American Song, as well as other Franco-American song materials in our archives.
Out on the Ice
This month we are excited to present the first in a series of monthly blog posts from our Jane Beck Folklife Fellow, archivist Susan Creighton . Between April and December Susan will share insights into her work and interesting things she comes across in the collection. As winter gradually transitions to spring, and inspired by our current on-site exhibit, Ice Shanties: Fishing, People & Culture, this month Susan shares some archival bits related to ice fishing and other winter activities on our frozen lakes.
Maple Sweet
To mark the 2019 sugaring season we asked legendary English folk singer (and Brattleboro resident) Tony Barrand and his apprentice, Amanda Witman to share a rendition of the classic Vermont folk song, the Vermont Sugar-Maker's Song, also known as Maple Sweet.
Meet our Newest Trustee, John Miller!
Meet our newest trustee, Coventry-based photographer, John Miller.
Vermont Cartooning and Culture Project
We received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the Vermont Cartooning and Culture Project.
Meet the 2019 Beck Folklife Fellow—Susan Creighton!
Meet our 2019 Jane Beck Folklife Fellow, archivist Susan Creighton.
Legends & Lore
We are excited to announce our partnership with the The William G. Pomeroy Foundation on their Legends & Lore® Marker Program.
Executive Director Receives Fellowship
With the financial support of a fellowship from Brown University, Vermont Folklife Center Executive Director Kathleen Haughey will be on leave until January 2020 in order to complete her dissertation and PhD in ethnomusicology.
Flanders Award for Traditional Vermont Music 2018/19 Awardees!
This year the Flanders Award for Traditional Vermont Music has been awarded to two musician/scholars: North Bennington, VT native, Matthew Christian and Nora Rodes, a student at the Putney School.
“VT Untapped” podcast taps into Vermont Folklife Center Archives, Fieldwork
Get excited! In early December the Folklife Center will launch VT Untapped™, its very own podcast. Host Mary Wesley is your guide as you explore Vermont’s people and cultures through the voices of its residents.
Culture Through Comics: Lucy Wright
A short comic produced by Lucy Wright based on her fieldwork experiences studying traditional dance in the UK. Lucy created it as a part the Culture Through Comics workshop we coordinated at the Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in Buffalo, NY.