Alvarez to Lead $1M Consortium
Research Professor Maribel Alvarez will direct a new two-year, one million-dollar, cooperative agreement with the National Endowment for the Arts to design and launch a new National Folklife Network (NFN). The agreement creates a consortium partnership between Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA); the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA), a heritage arts and community development organization serving the nation’s most populous state; and First Peoples Fund (FPF), a South Dakota-based national nonprofit that is one of the most important support networks for Native American artists. According to a press release from SFA, “The new initiative is charged with strengthening the folk and traditional arts field through training, fieldwork, convenings, community collaborations, field scans, and cultural asset mapping in seven designated areas in the continental United States and Alaska.” Learn more about the project here. (Anthro News Digest date: 06/18/2021)