The University of Arkansas Libraries have been approved for a $25,000 grant through the Grants for Arts Projects, which will support Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts’ Community Scholars Program.
Sydney Nichols has recently joined the University Libraries Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts (AFTA) program as the inaugural Folk Arts Assistant.
The University Libraries have hired Lauren Willette to fill a new, temporary role as Folk Arts Survey Coordinator for Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts.
We so pleased that Lauren Willette has joined our team at Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts this summer. Lauren Willette is a doctoral student in the Heritage Studies program at Arkansas State University. She began an internship with AFTA in May and is focusing her time with us on a project she’s developed titled “Coronavirus Pandemic Response: Gardening and Food Production Resourcefulness in Arkansas.”
Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts is firmly dedicated to building cross-cultural understanding by documenting, presenting, and sustaining Arkansas’ diverse living traditional arts and cultural heritage. At the heart of our work is valuing human dignity and the right to proudly and safely exist in this world. Along with our fellow neighbors and colleagues across the nation, we are watching and witnessing events that remind us of the very real threats to life, justice, and human dignity operating in our communities today.
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