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Longtime Festival volunteer Robert Scow shares this video he produced of Jon Vrana’s interpretation of Senator Justin Morrill at the 2012 Festival
As members of the public pay their last respects to Senator Daniel K.
UNUKUPUKUPU is trigorous hula curricula of Dr. Taupōuri Tangarō at Hawai‘i Community College, University of Hawai‘i System.
I first met “Teeth” in early Fall 1968, the year I began my Baltimore Arabbers Photodocumentary Project.
The 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival paid tribute to the late Chuck Brown, the “Godfather of Go-Go”
When The Names Project Foundation came to discuss a Folklife Festival program about the AIDS Memorial Quilt, I asked if the program would include panels to commemorate Smithsonian colleagues and their family members who had died of AIDS.
This story was filmed at the Center during a 2012 “Call My Name” quilting workshop conducted by The NAMES Project Foundation.
My mission was to assist with the preparations for the Mpumalanga Traditional Arts Market, attend the event and make recommendations for adding more educational activities
In March 2012, a team from The NAMES Project Foundation came to The Women’s Collective in Washington, D.C., to conduct a “Call My Name” quilting workshop.
In reflecting on our experiences at the 2012 Folklife Festival, the team of interns kept coming back to the concept of community.
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