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Director Michael Atwood Mason reflects on the transformative powers of cultural exchange.
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an exercise in cultural democracy, equity, and diplomacy.
With multilayered family legacies, dyeing is more than a business: “o kɛra ciyɛn.” "It is heritage.”
Food gathers the family; family gathers the food.
The pop-up International Folk Art Market will feature jewelers, basket makers, weavers, textile designers, woodcarvers, and other artisans from over fifteen countries.
“When I became a nurse, I realized that while pills and drugs are sometimes very necessary, they are not always so.”
These photographs feature Armenian artisans, their education, craft, and artistry, from before 1915 to the present day.
Along the Ebro River Delta, cooks gather crab, rockfish, conger eel, and mantis shrimp—all just to produce the seafood stock for cuttlefish rossejat.
Each summer solstice in the village of Isil, community members carry torches down the mountainside, creating a serpentine ribbon of fire.
Armenian American painter Arshile Gorky’s work will be spotlighted during a special gallery talk at The Kreeger Museum on Saturday, June 23, at 2 p.m.
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