(1989), M.A. (1970), Ph.D. (1974) University of Chicago. Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom, and in particular their freedom to be who they culturally are. Visitors at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, 2002. Intern at Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. When we think about war, what comes to mind is that quest for power and territory, the violent use of destructive armaments and the horrific costs incurred in human lives lost and shattered. Folklore (or traditional and popular culture) is the totality of tradition-based creations of a cultural community, expressed by a group or individuals and recognized as reflecting the expectations of a community in so far as they reflect its cultural and social identity; its standards and values are transmitted orally, by imitation or by other means. The Smithsonian accessed funding provided by its federal appropriations and tapped stalwart donorsBank of America and the Mellon Foundation to support packing and protection efforts and the acceleration of its satellite monitoring work. 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. A participant works on a quilt at the 1968 Festival of American Folklife on the National Mall, Washington, D.C. Yugoslav Dancers at Festival of American Folklife, 1973. Ph.D. (1979) University of California, Los Angeles. Folklife Magazine explores how culture shapes our lives. It also maintains the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. When the clouds cleared, satellite imagery confirmed what local residents had photographed with their cell phones: the tiny, isolated museum had been destroyed. In 1987, the office purchased the Folkways music collection which became the core of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, a rich resource for the study of folk culture and music. 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. project is a collaboration between the people of Armenia, the Smithsonian, and USAID. Crucial investigations are underway that will one day provide an accounting of Russias devastating war crimes. Satellite photography of the museum on February 14, 2022, prior to the invasion, shows the museum roof and surrounding area covered by snow. To date, the label has won six Grammy Awards, one Latin Grammy, 10 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards and 30 Independent Music Awards. Adams, Greg,Interim Archives Director. James Deutsch is a curator and editor at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution. While the archive, filled with paper documentation and other memorabilia, is traditionally considered to be museum material, the other two sections exemplify more accurately the direction CFCH is headed, with a "shift from reified and ossified discourses of 'preservation' to more dynamic and ecological models of sustainability". The center is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian that produces the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, exhibitions, symposia, publications and educational materials. The inventory now includes more than 28,000 sites. Among them was the Kosciuszko Foundation, a Polish American organization that, with funding and advice from the Smithsonian, has provided emergency stabilization supplies for dozens of Ukrainian museums from its offices in Warsaw. Pakistani Hand-Painted Truck at Smithsonian Folklife Festival, 2007. The Switzerland-based Aliph Foundation responded adroitly, quickly devoting several million dollars for packing and shipping supplies, fire extinguishers and other materials to scores of museums and institutions, and working closely with Ukrainian colleagues to improve collection storage facilities. The CFCH is one of several federal institutions to have related mandates. 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. The Smithsonian in Games and Other Formats, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Air and Space Museum and Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Website, Additional Historic Images of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Sign up for email updates on our amazing collection. (1976) Simmons College; M.A. Putin, though, claims that Ukrainians lack the history, culture and identity worthy of a national state separate from Russia. How much of the culture of a region is embodied in the actual vocabulary of its language? Since its inception in 1967, the Festival has highlighted artisans from all 50 states, more than 100 countries and nearly 70 occupations. 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. Every summer since 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival brings together artisans, musicians, cooks and storytellers from around the world on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for performances, workshops, and demonstrations of living cultural expression. (1983), Ph.D. (1991) Indiana University. (1988) Brown University; M.A. B.A. The lab has also used satellite monitoring to document looting. B.A. To date, almost 1,600 cases of potential damage to Ukrainian cultural heritage sites have been documented, including some 700 monuments and memorials, and more than 200 museums, archives and libraries. (1987) University of Maryland. Dr. Richard Kurin Research specialties: Intangible cultural heritage, Latin American music (specifically: USA, Mexico and Guatemala, Indigenous and migrant communities). The Ukrainian language, the countrys art and its historyincluding the Slavic-Christian state centered in Kyiv a thousand years ago, the 19th-century flowering of Ukrainian culture and nationalism, the post-World War I Ukrainian republic, the Ukrainian independence movement of the early 1990s and its reaffirming Orange Revolution in 2004 and the Euromaidan Revolution in 2013-2014all represent an undeniable Ukrainian identity that is centuries in the making. Building Arts and Traditional Architecture. Mailing Address: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Smithsonian Institution P.O. Contact:PlaceJ1@si.edu, Sheehy, Daniel E., Curator and Director Emeritus, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Contact Soeun directly . They focus on American, and more specifically Euro-American, African American, Caribbean and Native American musical and performance traditions. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the institutions nonprofit record label, representing the collections and productions of nearly two dozen companies and organizations, documenting the diversity of the worlds musical and spoken-word heritage and creativity. The Center conducts ethnographic and cultural heritage policy oriented research, maintains the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, and provides educational and research opportunities through fellowships, internships, and training programs. Research specialties: Occupational folklife, African folklife, epic, narrative, proverbs, computer applications in folklore, intangible cultural heritage policy. (1978) Arizona State University. Research specialties: English country dance in the U.S., Scottish traditional song and the Folk Revival, comparative British and Appalachian folksong traditions. Contact:SheehyD@si.edu, Cadaval, Olivia, Research Associate. Research specialties: Ethnomusicology, audiovisual archives, music industry, social organization, cosmology, ritual, oral narrative, South American Indians, Brazil. B.A. Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism and Popular Culture Contact:Kurin@si.edu, Linn, Mary S.,Curator of Language and Cultural Vitality. Russias war against Ukraine and its people is a clear and terrible affront to humanity and a violation of fundamental rights recognized in those accords. Contact:Marjorie@si.edu, Kim, Sojin, Curator. B.A. Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Jun 2022 - Present 9 . Since 1967 the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has taken place at the National Mall and featured ongoing performances and demonstrations of contemporary cultural traditions. (2005) University of California, Los Angeles; PGCert. Contact:HolmgrenM@si.edu, Hunt, Marjorie, Folklorist, Curator, Education Specialist. Many Ukrainian museums hastily evacuated their collections to other locations, sometimes to basements, underground storage facilities or safe sites removed from major Russian attack zones. (1973) Scripps College, M.A. Originally part of the Smithsonian's Division of Performing Arts, a separate Office of Folklife Programs was created in 1980. Search millions of objects in the collections including photographs, artworks, artifacts, scientific specimens, manuscripts, sound records, and transcripts. (1983), Ph.D. (1991) Indiana University. Research specialties: cultural presentation and representation,cultural heritage policy, cultural disaster and response, material culture studies, museum controversies, indigenous knowledge systems, cultures of south Asia and the United States. Once approved by Ripley, Morris hired Ralph Rinzler to help him produce this festival for the upcoming summer 1967. Where possible, theyve treated artworks and artifacts, and repaired damage. This paper defines the field as folklore and uses that term throughout its paper:[4]. The American Folklife Center, at the nearby Library of Congress, limits its scope to American Folklife in contrast to the international scope of the CFCH. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundationrecalling the 2010 success of the Smithsonians Haiti Cultural Recovery Project hed supported when head of U.S. Agency for International Developmentpledged major support. Contact:Leopold@si.edu. 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). Polish organizations lent tremendous logistical help. University of California, Los Angeles. The Smithsonian Artisan Initiative is dedicated to building the sustainability of traditional culture. For a list of individual collections included under the umbrella of Smithsonian Folkways, see, For specifics on research questions for this group, see, For a list of events sponsored by this research group, see, Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, "Sustaining Minority Languages in Europe (SMiLE)", Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_for_Folklife_and_Cultural_Heritage&oldid=1059238250. Research specialties: Material culture, folklore and education, public programming. | READ MORE. These were successfully concluded in 1987, and this collection became the core of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, a rich resource for the study of folk culture and music. Those trucks were later reported to have delivered the artworks to the Russian-controlled Central Museum of Tavrida in Simferopol, Crimea. In presenting the Smithsonians contribution to that effort, we could not have been prouder. The Festival is an annual exposition of living culture held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for two weeks around the Independence Day holiday for audiences sometimes exceeding one million visitors. (1973) New York University; M.A. In 2010, a fourth component was added to this model: culture. The charge for this inquiry was set forth in 1992 with passage of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which mandates protection and promotion of historical regional and minority languages in Europe. (1972) State University of New York, Buffalo; M.A. Various alternatives failed, but thanks to contacts through the U.S. State Department, the Smithsonian enlisted Uber, which had been providing free transport for refugees fleeing Ukraine and even for relocating them in neighboring countries. Box 37012, MRC 520 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012. The Centers work is local, national, international, and global in scope. It follows international standards in collecting and storing digital evidence for potential legal proceedings and seeks confirmation of damage and destruction from detailed satellite imagery and on-the-ground reports. Research specialties: American folklife, material culture, building arts, occupational folklife, Italian-American folklore, culture and aging, oral history, cultural and linguistic sustainability, public programming. Contact:YoungerE@si.edu, Office of Academic Appointments and Internships, Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study (SORS) Intro. Research specialties: Native American and Pacific Rim material culture, contemporary Native American art, museum practice. The center is composed of three distinct units. B.A. Dr. Richard Kurin, the Smithsonian's Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador at Large, has served as the institution's Under Secretary and as director of the Center for Folklife and Cultural . [note 4] Through these connections with external networks and strategic cultural partners, best practices and challenges emerge to inform the future of cultural heritage policy and practice at the Smithsonian. Contact:DeutschJ@si.edu, Daz-Carrera, Cristina,Curator. (2005) Occidental College; Ph.D. (2017) UCLA. Research specialties: Indigenous, intercultural, and community media; digital media and performance;Afro-Brazilian expressive culture. The monuments lauded Russian triumphs, from the czarist empire, to Stalin and victory over the Nazis in World War II, to Russian heroes of 2014. Russian leader Vladimir Putin has wrongly made culture both a justification and an object of war with Ukraine. 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. B.A. The Washington Monument can be seen in the distance. (2005) University of California, Los Angeles; PGCert. Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large. The third team at CFCH manages and curates the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. This eclectic collection of artifacts and activities came together at the Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage through a series of fortuitous and unplanned events. (1981), Ph.D. (1995) University of Pennsylvania. (1979) Emory University; Ph.D. (1991) George Washington University. The Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage (CFCH) is one of three cultural centers within the Smithsonian Institution in the United States. 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. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is a public resource home to hundreds of thousands of videos, films, photographs, sound recordings, and field reports that document cultural traditions, maintained with an increasing commitment to digital accessibility and shared stewardship. A plethora of newly minted compound concepts have been introduced into the vocabulary and discussion of culture since the turn of the century. [note 2] As such, Smithsonian Folkways has become an important collection to the musical community to access and research these recordings from all over the world. (1970), Ph.D. (1974) University of Chicago. B.A. Privacy Statement B.A. In 1998, the Festival was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to reflect its international interests, and in 1999 the office was renamed the Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage to reflect its research and public program functions. (1974), Ph.D. (1981) University of Chicago. (1964), Ph.D. (1973) University of Pennsylvania. Contact:Cordovaa@si.edu, Deutsch, James I., Curator. (1996) Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile; M.A. 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. Research specialties: English country dance in the U.S., Scottish traditional song and the Folk Revival, comparative British and Appalachian folksong traditions. Native American Blanket Toss at Festival of American Folklife, 1974. The record label originated as the Folkways Records of Moe Asch, which were donated to the Smithsonian in 1989 under the unique condition that all records in the collection remain available "forever", regardless of sales. Junior volunteer John McCauley demonstrates marblemaking to onlookers at the 20th Festival of American Folklife, in the Summer of 1986. In addition to daily performances and activities on the National Mall, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival recommends events and exhibitions relating to our programs at other Smithsonian museums and venues around Washington, D.C. All events are free unless otherwise noted. In a September 2022 presentation in New Yorks Ukrainian Museum during United Nations General Assembly week, Ukraines first lady Olena Zelenska and Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova clearly articulated this point. This research group brings together thought leaders, both digitally and in person, to explore some of the critical issues facing our nation and the world. (1971) University of California, Santa Barbara; M.Litt (1975) University of Edinburgh; M.S.L.S. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an international exposition of living cultural heritage annually produced outdoors on the National Mall of the United States in Washington, D.C., by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Research specialties: cultural presentation and representation,cultural heritage policy, cultural disaster and response, material culture studies, museum controversies, indigenous knowledge systems, cultures of south Asia and the United States. It now includes an extensive collection of traditional American music, children's music, and international music. Research Associate. Terms of Use The Center hosts the annual Folklife Festival on the National Mall and is home to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Research specialties: Ethnographic and Indigenous archives, information ethics, language revitalization, indigenous knowledge systems, knowledge repatriation, Africa. (2001) Youngstown State University; M.A. Research specialties: Caribbean/Latin American studies, Latino music, cultural representation. In 1964 the new Smithsonian secretary, S. Dillon Ripley, arrived in Washington with an innovative museum concept: he challenged curators to "take the objects out of their cases and make them sing". Contact:KimSO@si.edu, Kurin, Richard, Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large. B.A. Junior Volunteer at Festival of American Folklife, 1986. From our earliest musical encounters to the formation of complex social identities, the American musical landscape wouldnt be what it is today without the countless contributions of women changemakers, groundbreakers, and tradition-bearers. UNESCO arranged online meetings bringing together Ukrainians with European and American counterparts to discuss needs, resources and responses. Telephone: 202.633.6440 Fax: 202.633.6474, 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, Mailing Address Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Smithsonian Institution P.O. Research Associate. Following World War II, the nations of the world contemplated the armed conquest of neighbors, the Holocaust, genocide and mass execution, the restrictions of thought, movement, belief and association inflicted by the Nazi regime. 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