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Folklife Education
Plain View Fellowship This pilot fellowship program was launched spring 2021 to supports ethnographers, documentarians, or artist-researchers in documenting folklife, culture, and heritage in the Greater Southwest and Northwest Mexico. The program takes its name from folklorist Mary Hufford’s notion that the study of folklife reveals beauty …
End of Life Programs
SFA’s End of Life: Continuum (EOL) project shares cultural knowledge about traditions, expressions, and practices associated with end of life, grief, mourning and death in Southern Arizona’s folk, ethnic, occupational, faith-based and alternative communities. Current projects End-of-Life Audio Stories End-of-life (EOL) care is tender and …
VozFrontera
(2018-2019) A city without culture is a dead city. You just live to eat and work. Where there’s no creativity, no spontaneity, it’s a challenge to get your dreams going. –Gustavo Aranda, High school music teacher VozFrontera was a program for youth engagement, leadership, and local arts incubation in Nogales, Arizona. It offers …
Honoring Traditions/Bridging Generations
We're happy to share this video from Honoring Traditions/Bridging Generations, an educational program offered by the Arizona State Museum celebrating traditional artists in the state. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the program brought together master and emerging artists to learn from each other and to stimulate …
Cuban artist Nereida García-Ferraz visits border communities and artists
Our program to boost cultural activities and bring opportunities to youth and artist in border communities, VozFrontera, got a splash of cultura cubana this spring with a visit from Nereida García-Ferraz, a mixed-media artist who splits her time between Miami and Havana, Cuba. Born in Havana in 1954, Nereida migrated to the United States in …