Grants and Acquisitions

Ann-Christe Galloway

Ed. note: Send your grants and acquisitions to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, email: agalloway@ala.org.

The University of Arkansas Libraries has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to serve as the home for the Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts Program. Working closely with the Arkansas Arts Council, a folk arts coordinator will document folk arts traditions from both longstanding communities and recent immigrant groups in the state. The coordinator will also develop special programs, such as apprenticeship programs and exhibits, that nurture the continued growth of these arts and foster a better understanding of the creative activities of the state’s diverse cultures. The program will dovetail with the libraries’ longstanding efforts to generate a greater understanding of the state’s folk culture through its digitization projects, such as those that highlight the fieldwork of folklorists Mary Celestia Parler and Vance Randolph.