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The New York Folklore Society board of directors is a diverse group of people, bringing a varied set of skills to the organization. Our goal to “recognize and incorporate the perspectives and contributions of diverse audiences/constituencies throughout every level of the New York Folklore Society, its programs, and services” necessarily includes those who serve on our board of directors. We continually seek greater ethnic diversity in our governance. In keeping with the original intent of the society’s founders, we also strive to include board members who represent the geography of New York State. Our board members come from throughout the state, including Genessee, Dutchess, Oswego, Broome, Warren, Nassau, Schenectady, and Columbia counties, as well as Manhattan and the Bronx. We include folklorists, archivists, arts administrators, business people, university professors, and a lawyer. Serving on our board of directors requires membership in the New York Folklore Society, as well as a commitment to the nurturance of New York’s cultural traditions. —Ellen McHale, Executive Director NYFS Establishes Advisory Committee At the February 2008 meeting of the board of directors of the New York Folklore Society, the society approved the formation of an advisory committee. The New York Folklore Society advisory committee will provide guidance, advice, and assistance to the New York Folklore Society’s board of directors on (1) issues related to the field and the organization where members have specialized knowledge, skills, and backgrounds that will advance the work of the society, and (2) increasing the society’s outreach and incorporating the perspectives of numerous stakeholders. The advisory committee allows the New York Folklore Society to broaden its outreach and incorporate perspectives from allied fields. It is a way to formalize the relationship with people who have institutional memory or specific expertise that is helpful, but who are unable to serve as members of the board of directors. Advisory committee members will be individuals respected within the fields or sectors from which they come, who have depth and breadth of knowledge to bring to the society. Honorary vice presidents of the society (a program, outlined in the society’s bylaws, to honor significant members) will automatically become members of the advisory committee. Advisory committee members will be appointed by the New York Folklore Society’s board of directors and will serve for renewable two-year terms. Recommendations for advisory committee appointments can be made by any member of the society and will be accepted throughout the year. To make a recommendation, please contact Executive Director Ellen McHale, or any of the current board members of the society. New York Folklore Society P.O. Box 764 Schenectady, NY 12301 518/346-7008 Fax 518/346-6617 nyfs@nyfolklore.org |
About the New York Folklore Society
ABOUT NYFS | BOARD | STAFF | MEMBERSHIP | GALLERY | CALENDAR | SHOP | SEARCH NYFS BOARD MEMBERS Gabrielle M. Hamilton, President, 2010-2012
Elena Martinez, Vice-President, 2010-2012
Delcy Ziac Fox, Secretary-Treasurer, 2010-2012
Polly Adema
Jean Crandall Jean Crandall served as Staff Folklorist at the Dutchess County Arts Council in Poughkeepsie from 1997-2004. She produced a core of annual programs which included the founding of “One River, Many Streams” folklife festivals in Poughkeepsie and Beacon; “La Navidad en Nuestro Pueblo” an annual celebration in partnership with local Latino communities presenting Christmas traditions; and other special projects. Crandall has also served as consulting folklorist for a wide range of organizations including the Historical Society of Rockland County, the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center, the Bardavon 1869 Opera House, the Council on the Arts and Humanities of Staten Island, Eldridge Street Project and the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum. Crandall travels to Mexico regularly, and works with Mexican folk artists through her company La Mula Chula. She is currently completing the certification process for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages K-12, and teaches adults in the evening. Karyl Eaglefeathers Karyl Denison (McIntosh) Eaglefeathers worked with Norman Studer to direct the Catskill Folk Festivals in the 1970s. After the last festival in 1979, she began studying for her Ph.D. in folklore at Indiana University. She is now an assistant professor at Empire State College. Ellen Fladger Ellen Fladger is head of Special Collections/Archivist for the Union College’s Schaeffer Library, Schenectady, NY. She holds a Master’s in Folklore from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Folk Cultural Studies and post-Master’s certificates form Columbia University’s School of Library Science. She serves as a consultant for archival projects throughout New York State. Jan Hanvik
Alice Lai Alice Lai is Assistant Professor in the Arts and Educational Studies at SUNY-Empire State College. She received a B.A. in Art and a M.A. in Art Education at California State University, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Art Education at The Ohio State University. At Empire State College, she develops and chairs an arts program. She also teaches courses regularly in the areas of art and art education. She is the author of several entirely online undergraduate courses including Artistic Expression in a Multicultural America and Images of Women. Collaborating with NYFS, she co-developed and taught a course for the Summer Field School Exploring Place: Documenting Your Community’s Culture and Traditions. Through teaching these courses, she invites students to research visual culture, material culture, folk traditions, and arts and craft in their communities. Her students have learned to interview local artists and identify and document local traditions. Through the lens of critical cultural study, visual cultural study, and multiculturalism, she has coauthored a number of articles investigating community based and place based artistic expression such as yard art in upstate New York and argues for the importance of place-based pedagogy for the arts and humanities. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Studies in Art Education and Pedagogy. Jessica Schein
Libby Tucker
Tom van Buren Tom van Buren is the Director of Folk Arts and of Performance Programs for ArtsWestchester, the Arts Council of Westchester County, New York. An arts presenter with extensive public sector folk arts experience in field research, performance programs, and media productions, he earned a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Maryland (2001), writing on the practice of music and dance in the francophone West African immigrant community of New York City. His areas of cultural expertise include also expressive cultures of the Caribbean, and the Middle East, as well as the wider topic of cultural migration and transnational communities. From 1994 to 2003, he worked on cultural programs related to immigrant communities of the New York metropolitan area for the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, including concert and festival productions and audio-visual documentation projects. From 1996 to 2000, he was project director of the Dominican Community Cultural Initiative which founded the Quisqueya en el Hudson Festival in Washington Heights, New York. In this capacity, he worked in collaborative community cultural organizing, field research, and artistic programming within the Dominican community of New York. He was co-editor/compiler of the Global Beat of the Boroughs CD series for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, for which he also produced two other albums: Badenya: Manden Music in New York City (2002) and Quisqueya en el Hudson: Dominican Music in New York (2004). Since 2003, he has produced public programs for ArtsWestchester (formerly the Westchester Arts Council), including concerts, festivals, and material arts exhibitions featuring primarily immigrant community-based artists of the lower Hudson Valley. In 2006 and 2007 and currently, he has written and administered grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for a multicultural concert series called Worlds Of Westchester, and a two-part program of Asian Indian culture and the current Latino Cultural Initiative. He is also an adjunct professor of music at Mercy College. Paul Mercer, Past President, 2009-2011
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