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The New York Folklore Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Eileen Condon has been named the new Acquisitions Editor for Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore. She will replace Dr. Felicia McMahon who held the post from 2003-2008.
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ERIE CANALWAY ARTS INVENTORY—The New York Folklore Society was selected to begin a targeted inventory of the arts in the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor in 2009. The project is part of the Heritage-in-Arts Initiative begun in 2008. A team of folklorists and historians, as well as a photographer, will visit Canalway Corridor communities and regions gathering examples of the rich artistic and cultural expression inspired by and resulting from the development of the Corridor’s historic canals. For additional information on the arts inventory or the Heritage-in-Arts Initiative, contact Hannah Blake at 518-237-7000, ext. 202, or view the project webpage. We welcome your feedback and participation!
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TO HONOR GRACE HUDOWALSKI
the Grace Peak Committee of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers is proposing to rename one of the peaks of the Dix Range in the Adirondacks “Grace Peak.” Read more about Grace, the first female president of the New York Folklore Society, in the Director’s Column of the upcoming Voices.
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North Country Christmas
Stan Ransom and Marne O’Shae
60th Anniversary Album
Kelly’s Old-Timers
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Dan Berggren
Traditional and Original Music of the Adirondacks
Old Stone Walls: Catskill Land and Lore
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Early Settlers and Their Traditions
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Catskill Mountain Bluestone
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 The Gallery of New York Folk Art presents
An Exhibition featuring the work of Denise Allen, folk artist and master craftswoman from Palatine Bridge, NY
Opening wine-and-cheese reception with the artist: Thursday, February 25, 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
Gallery Hours: 10 a.m - 4 p.m.
Gallery of New York Folk Art, 133 Jay St., Schenectady, NY
Contact: 518.346.7008, email: lisa@nyfolklore.org
Cost: Free
As a folk artist who predominately focuses on themes of African American colonial life and country living, Allen creates one-of-a-kind textured artwork employing various techniques, prints, dolls, and story cloths. Her work has been featured nationally and internationally, and in February 2010, she will be unveiling her latest piece, a 9-11 story cloth that will be housed at the forthcoming 9-11 memorial in New York City.
February 25, 2010 - March 26, 2010
I read every issue of Voices.
The taxpayers are hollering,
and the state’s contribution
to this wonderful little
magazine has been
drastically cut. Those of
us who read it all the way
through have to all chip in.
—Pete Seeger, musician and activist,
Beacon, New York
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recipient of a 2005/2006 award from the Documentary Heritage Program of
the NYS Archives. As funded, the project is to support the arrangement
and description of folklore collections using a "circuit rider" approach...read more about our Archives projects |
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Worth the Wait!
New York Folklore Journal
Vol. 25, Nos. 1-4, 1999
The 1999 Journal is a reprinting of some of the best public sector writing from 1985-1995, with an introductory essay by Robert Baron. Other essays include the work of Karen Taussig-Lux, I. Sheldon Posen, Joyce Ice, Douglas DeNatale, Kate Koperski, Anna (Chairetakis) Wood, and others.
If you would like to receive a copy and you weren’t a member of the New York Folklore Society in 1999, they are for sale as individual copies in our on-line gallery bookstore for $10.00/copy plus $1.50 postage and handling.
Visit Our Folk Arts Gallery in Schenectady or online
Handcarved wood green wing teal duck decoy by Jim Neenan, a woodcarver from Staten Island.
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 | As a part of the Hudson Valley’s Quadricentennial celebrations, the New York Folklore Society commemorated the vibrant cultural traditions of New York’s Haudenosaunee tribes with “North by Northeast: Baskets and Beadwork from the Akwesasne Mohawk and Tuscarora.” Read about this exhibition and see photos and video. |
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Thank you to all of our fans and supporters! It was a wonderful night of music in the GE Theater at Proctors. See photos from the event.
Gala Benefit Concert and Voices Release Party
Voices—Roots and Branches of New York Folk Music
Friday, May 29, 2009
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The New York Folklore Society remains in the forefront of a creative movement. The impulse in 1945 to publish the folklore of New York State for the people of the state is continued today through this publication Voices. The editors of this publication encourage your submission of scholarly writing, as well as nonfiction, fiction, poetry, memoir, and other forms of creative literature.—Ellen McHale, Director
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| Folk and Community Arts Organizations: Creating, Producing and Managing (Intro or Adv) Co-sponsored with the New York Folklore Society, this Empire State College study was designed for students interested in non-profit community arts and folk arts programming, presenting, researching (field work methods), documenting, archiving and managing. It offered aomprehensive look at how arts organizations operate, the services they provide local communities and the public at large, the wide range of programs they create and produce, the research and documentation that informs their work, how they educate youth about the arts and local communities, and grant-writing and fund-raising.
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SEE PHOTOS FROM THE ESC/NYFS SUMMER COURSE
Exploring Place: Documenting Your Community’s Culture and Traditions
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Congratulations, Faye!
At the American Folklore Society annual meeting in October, it was announced that Felicia R. McMahon won the Chicago Folklore Prize for her book, Not Just Child’s Play: Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan. The Chicago Folklore Prize is awarded each year for the best book-length work of folklore scholarship for the year, and it’s the oldest, and most prestigious international award recognizing excellence in folklore scholarship. Faye, a research professor of anthropology at Syracuse University and Voices acquisitions editor from 2003-2008, wrote this book to raise money for its subjects, a community of Didinga Sudanese refugees who settled in Syracuse. She is donating her royalties from the book to the Lost Boys. According to Faye, “I think this book is just my way of lending a helping hand. My degree is in folklore and folk art, so what can I do? ... So this was my way of being able to extend a little kindness, and I’m hoping more people will get involved in this kind of work. I just gained so much from knowing newcomers to our city and our region.” (Read more.)
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Folklore in Archives:
A Guide to Describing Folklore and Folklife Materials
by James Corsaro and
Karen Taussig-Lux
A companion to
Working with Folk Materials in New York State
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