- The National Endowment for the Arts has announced 13 individuals and groups as 2014 NEA National Heritage Fellows and Jazz Masters. See the announcement and 2014 list: http://arts.gov/news/2014/nea-announces-lifetime-honors-recipients
- In a nod to the soccer frenzy underway in the United States, the Humanities listserv, H-net, has created a network specific to the sport and its culture: https://networks.h-net.org/world-cup-2014
- The American Folklore Society’s annual meeting will be held in Santa Fe, in November. You can tour a pueblo pottery firing or a fiber arts trail; there are workshops on indexing oral histories and collections databases, or a creative session on folklore writing. Check it: https://afsnet.site-ym.com/?page=AM14Events
- Are you a fan of material culture? (Wiki definition: the physical evidence of a culture in the objects and architecture they make.) Read abstracts from the professional journal, Material Culture Magazine: http://mcu.sagepub.com/content/current
- The Vernacular Architecture Forum has published its archive of “Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture,” 1982-2007, at: http://www.vernaculararchitectureforum.org/publications/pva-backlist.html
- The beautifully-decorated folkart of a 1930s shoeshine stand, created by an Italian immigrant bootblack, has been purchased by the Fenimore Art Museum of Cooperstown, New York. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/arts/design/a-shoeshine-box-with-a-luster-all-its-own-emerges-from-the-shadows.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar&_r=1
Folklife Endnote
Commemorating the Tucson Sand Trout of Rose Hill Wash
