by Marlee Baron | Jan 16, 2020 | Site Visits
We spent Monday at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with two meetings, one about the Folkways Recording Label and the other about the Folklife Festival. Every summer since 1967 the Smithsonian has put on a roughly two week long festival on...
by Blake Ormond | Jan 16, 2020 | Site Visits
Even after doing research on Folkways Recording Label and learning about their 62 year history, I still wasn’t quite sure what to expect from our visit. Part of this uncertainty stemmed from my unclear definition of folk and what it means to be a folk artist. There is...
by Abigail Hansen | Jan 15, 2020 | Site Visits
“Everybody in, nobody out” became the cornerstone sentence for an organization that the Washington Post would later state, “has enriched the life of this community beyond any calculation.”[1] Washington Performing Arts was founded by Patrick...
![An apolitical federal institution? It’s less likely than you’d think.]()
by Emma Haren | Jan 15, 2020 | Site Visits
Learning about the mission of the National Portrait Gallery in my research changed the way I approached the gallery. Since 1968, they have attempted to create a uniquely American narrative with a variety of individuals who commandeer their own piece of American...
by Anna Cook | Jan 14, 2020 | Site Visits
As we walked through the repurposed 75,000 sq/ft of the underground subterranean streetcar tunnels stretching under Dupont Circle, the relationship between democratic policy and the arts seemed to seep through the colorful graffiti murals on the walls. On Jan 11, our...
by Alina Villa | Jan 14, 2020 | Site Visits
It’s taken me a minute to get to finish this blog as we have been kept so busy these past few days paneling with several organizations and going to groundbreaking shows. Native American history hits home for me which is part of the reason I find it both difficult to...
