Research specialties: Occupational folklife, African folklife, epic, narrative, proverbs, computer applications in folklore, intangible cultural heritage policy. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH), Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum (CHNDM), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG), National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), National Museum of American History (NMAH), National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL), National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP), Smithsonian Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Fellowships in Conservation of Museum Collections Program, George Burch Fellowship in Theoretical Medicine and Affiliated Theoretical Science, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF). At the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, visitors admire the Pakistani hand-painted truck originally brought to the Smithsonian for the 2002 Folklife Festival. (1971) University of California, Santa Barbara; M.Litt (1975) University of Edinburgh; M.S.L.S. B.A. Like Poshyvailo and his HERI teams, conservators across Ukraine have taken stock of the situation, salvaging collections and materials as best they can. B.A. The Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage promotes greater understanding and sustainability of cultural heritage across the United States and around the world through research, education and community engagement. B.A. At the 1985 Festival of American Folklife, the Hayride String Band performs. This page was last edited on 8 December 2021, at 08:10. (1973) Scripps College, M.A. (1981), Ph.D. (1995) University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D. (1979) University of California, Los Angeles. Originally part of the Smithsonians Division of Performing Arts, a separate Office of Folklife Programs was created in 1980. Support the Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Cultural Vitality Program, educational outreach, and more. Research specialties: Indigenous, intercultural, and community media; digital media and performance;Afro-Brazilian expressive culture. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections contains an extensive collection that documents American and world traditions in research notes, videos, CDs, audio tapes, and still images. The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage promotes greater understanding and sustainability of cultural heritage across the United States and around the world through research, education, and community engagement. One of the early cultural casualties of the Russian invasion was the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum. B.A. Poshyvailo was intimately familiar with the Smithsonians work, having served as a Fulbright scholar in 2010 while the institution mobilized on-the-ground efforts to save cultural heritage in Haiti following a devastating earthquake. B.A. In 2017, the label reached 251 million listeners through radio, online streaming and sales. When the clouds cleared, satellite imagery confirmed what local residents had photographed with their cell phones: the tiny, isolated museum had been destroyed. The company generously embraced the challenge. Search millions of objects in the collections including photographs, artworks, artifacts, scientific specimens, manuscripts, sound records, and transcripts. (1970) Williams College; M.A. The Festival takes place for two weeks every summer overlapping the Fourth of July holiday. Satellite photography of the museum on February 14, 2022, prior to the invasion, shows the museum roof and surrounding area covered by snow. Research Associate. (2009) University of Hawaii at Mnoa/East West Center; M.A. Research specialties: Africa and African Diaspora studies, immigrant and transnational culture and ethnicity, ethno-aesthetics, participatory research, cultural representation and cultural policy, culture and disability, multicultural education/social contexts. Along with the artifacts of material culture, we are blanketed with artifacts of intangible cultural heritage, including traditions of performance, ritual, music, dance, knowledge, storytelling, and oral transmission. Smithsonian Institution cultural center in the U.S. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Sustaining Minority Languages in Europe (SMiLE). Originally part of the Smithsonian's Division of Performing Arts, a separate Office of Folklife Programs was created in 1980. Research specialties: Asian American history and culture, Los Angeles history and culture, urban history, public history, vernacular landscape. Cookie Settings, Courtesy of National Research and Restoration Center, Courtesy of the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab, Courtesy of the National Research and Restoration Center, University of Maryland Center for Development and Conflict Management, Heritage Emergency Response Initiative (HERI), International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property. Currently there are three main research areas actively sponsored by CFCH. (1974), Ph.D. (1981) University of Chicago. [6] This was non-standard for the Smithsonian, and guaranteed to provoke curators accustomed to operating in orderly museum buildings.[7]. The centers collections are global in perspective, covering world ethnic performance traditions, spoken-word recordings, sounds of science and nature, occupational folklore and family folklore. The Sacred Grove: Essays on Museums. B.A. University of California, Los Angeles. The festival was started by folklorist Ralph C. Rinzler (1934-1994). Research specialties: Sound archives, archives, traditional musicof the United States, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, record production, history of sound recordings. Texas: A Celebration of Music, Food, and Wine, Roots of Virginia Culture: The Past is Present, Carriers of Culture: Living Native Basket Traditions, Nuestra Msica: Music in Latino Culture (2005), Haiti: Freedom and Creativity from the Mountains to the Sea, Nuestra Msica: Music in Latino Culture (2004), South Africa: Crafting the Economic Renaissance of the Rainbow Nation, The Baltic Nations: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Heartbeat: The Voices of First Nations Women, Russian Roots, American Branches: Music in Two Worlds, The Czech Republic: Tradition and Transformation, Culture and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, Masters of Traditional Arts: The National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows, Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Culture in the Americas, The Changing Soundscape in Indian Country, Forest, Field and Sea: Folklife in Indonesia, Roots of Rhythm and Blues: The Robert Johnson Era, Les Ftes Chez Nous: France and North America, The Caribbean: Cultural Encounters in the New World, Ingenuity and Tradition: The Common Wealth of Massachusetts, Migration to Metropolitan Washington: Making a New Place Home, Music from the Peoples of the Soviet Union, Cultural Conservation and Languages: America's Many Voices, Cultural Conservation: Traditional Crafts in a Post-Industrial Age, Black Urban Expressive Culture from Philadelphia, National Heritage Fellowships Program (1983), National Heritage Fellowships Program (1982), Music and Crafts of the Southeastern United States, Community Activities and Food Preservation, Folklife in the Museum: A Nation of Nations (1978), Folklife in the Museum: Renwick Gallery (1978), Folklife in the Museum: A Nation of Nations (1977), Folklife in the Museum: Hall of Musical Instruments, Folklife in the Museum: Renwick Gallery (1977). Research specialties: Latin American and Latino studies, American cultural history, material culture, folklife. Support the Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, sustainability projects, educational outreach, and more. The Dalai Lama, 2000 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Research specialties: Language documentation and description, language revitalization, youth motivation in language vitality, language and cultural diversity especially in Oklahoma and American Southeast, community-based endangered languages archives, language policy. Advertising Notice Nevertheless, he proposed to stage an outdoor festival on the National Mall during the summer, building on his previous career as both performer and manager in the music industry. nmaahc.si.edu. (2011) New York University. Intern at Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. B.A. With most of the worlds languages severely threatened, thousands of language communities have committed to revitalization eorts, from documentation and renewal to maintenance. (1993), A.B.D. He founded the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative. Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Jun 2022 - Present 9 . The topics and research areas that had been labeled as folklore and folklife are increasingly rebranded as topics within the purview of cultural studies. To this day, the festival features performers, crafts people, and community groups from the United States and foreign countries. University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1967 the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has taken place at the National Mall and featured ongoing performances and demonstrations of contemporary cultural traditions. B.A. Ripley, S. Dillon. A Lithuanian blacksmith demonstrates his skills in the Baltic Nations program during the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Search millions of objects in the collections including photographs, artworks, artifacts, scientific specimens, manuscripts, sound records, and transcripts. The Washington Monument is visible in the background. Satellite imagery from November 1 reveals the large trucks parked at the side of the museum and another vehicle, a van, stationed in its courtyard. Advisory Council Member at Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Contact:Diaz-CarreraC@si.edu, Holmgren, Meredith,Curator, American Womens Music. HERI mobilized to provide emergency packing materials. (1973) New York University; M.A. An aerial shot of the 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, showing the site of the South Africa program. Once again the subject matter was defined: Intangible Cultural Heritage means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, and skills as well as the instruments, objects, artifacts and cultural spaces associated therewith that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage. works with UNESCO, ministries of culture around the world, as well as local, national, and international governments to recommend and develop policy concepts and language on cultural sustainability. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. The Smithsonian, in an effort to document cultural war crimes as defined by the 1954 Hague Convention, shares its findings with Ukrainian cultural colleagues, and with the U.S. Department of States Conflict Observatory. Research specialties: Ethnomusicology, audiovisual archives, music industry, social organization, cosmology, ritual, oral narrative, South American Indians, Brazil. The Center also produces major national cultural events consistent with its mission. Curator. From the enslaved looking to the cosmos for freedom to popular sci-fi stories inspiring Black astronauts, to the musical influence of Sun Ra, OutKast, Janelle Monae, P-Funk, and more, this exhibition covers the broad and impactful spectrum of Afrofuturism. Smithsonian Folkwaysisdedicated tosupporting cultural diversityandincreased understanding among peoplesthrough the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. In addition to those named above, the author wishes to thank Hayden Bassett, Katharyn Hanson, Brian Daniels and members of the SCRI, CHML, HERI and NRRC teams who have engaged in this cultural heritage work. (2007), Ph.D. (2015) New York University. How, then, could conservators make house calls around the country at facilities storing collections of art, artifacts, books, documents, photographs and scientific specimens that documented the richness of Ukraines history, art, culture and scientific achievement? Smith College; M.A. Year after year, it continues to bring musicians, artists, performers, craftspeople, workers, cooks, and storytellers into this public forum to demonstrate the skills, knowledge, and aesthetics that embody the creative vitality of community-based traditions. Adams, Greg,Interim Archives Director. Director, Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Research specialties: City and regional planning, cultural sustainability, elevation of cultural practices to improve local economies. Toward the end of the fierce battle for Kherson in November 2022, museum staff at the Kherson Regional Art Museum reported that dozens of Russian specialists and aides haphazardly loaded two trucks with some 10,000 artworks without proper packing. Research specialties: City and regional planning, cultural sustainability, elevation of cultural practices to improve local economies. B.A. The Cultural Vitality Program works collaboratively with communities around the world to support the sustainability of homegrown forms of cultural and artistic production, especially in the areas of language, Indigenous culture, and craft. (1973) Scripps College, M.A. Street and Delivery Address: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Capital Gallery Building 600 Maryland Avenue SW Suite 2001 MRC 520 Washington, D.C. 20024. (1977) Smith College; M.A. (2004 and 2012) University of Maryland. How much of the culture of a region is embodied in the actual vocabulary of its language? Since then, the label has expanded on Asch's vision of documenting and preserving music and soundscapes from around the world. [note 1] Its budget comes primarily from grants, trust monies, federal government appropriations, and gifts, with a small percentage coming from the main Smithsonian budget.[2]. Contact:SeitelP@si.edu, Smith, Stephanie, Research Associate. The National Park Service has as one of its objectives the preservation of historic sites, partnering with CFCH in their concerns for the cultural sustainability of both tangible and natural cultural resources. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. Ihor Poshyvailo, director of the Maidan Museum in Kyiv and co-founder of Ukraines Heritage Emergency Response Initiative, along with his crew, salvages the remains of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary built in 1862 and shelled by the Russians in March 2022. Research specialties: Cultural anthropology, cultural heritage presentation and representation, cultural performance and social activism, museum programming and public engagement. At a meeting in 1989, they published a "Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Folklore". The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage promotes greater understanding and sustainability of cultural heritage across the United States and around the world through research, education, and community engagement. (1979) Emory University; Ph.D. (1991) George Washington University. | READ MORE. There are restrictions for re-using this image. Stryelnikova needed passenger vans to carry teams of up to 16 conservators daily along with equipment and supplies around the country to service stored but still endangered collections. For the past nine months, a squad of Uber drivers has made more than 200 trips and racked up more than 30,000 miles taking conservators to hundreds of museums and offsite storage locations throughout Ukraine. Given satellite coverage, they can reference images over a period of time to pinpoint when the damage occurred and how extensive it is. As with all archives, the Folklife Archives is currently working to move its entire collection into digital format, thus enabling global access to the artifacts. Alarmed, the lab began geolocating cultural heritage sites in Ukrainerecording the coordinates of monuments and memorials, places of worship, cemeteries, museums, libraries, archives, performing arts centers, historical buildings and archaeological sites. In the practical implementation of cultural sustainability, CFCH also manages three different projects where the theoretical finding of this research can be put to test in the field. The center is composed of three distinct units. Contact:smithsdl@si.edu, Younger, Erin,Research Associate. Contact:Leopold@si.edu. Svitlana Stryelnikova, director general of the National Research Restoration Center of Ukraine, and her staff of expert conservators at the headquarters in Kyiv and branch facilities in Kharkiv, Odesa and Lviv were charged with caring for Ukrainian national collections. The Center hosts the annual Folklife Festival on the National Mall and is home to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Through audio recordings and educational materials Smithsonian Folkways strengthens people's engagement with their own cultural heritage and enhances their awareness and appreciation of the cultural heritage of others. (1981), Ph.D. (1995) University of Pennsylvania. 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