TAI's Partners
Indiana Arts Commission
www.state.in.us/iac/

Indiana University Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology
www.indiana.edu/~folklore/

Indiana State Fair
www.indianastatefair.com/

Indiana Historical Society
www.indianahistory.org

indianaarts.org
www.indianaarts.org


Educators Web Bibliography
A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/teachers.html#readings

American Memory Learning Page - Teachers from around the country have designed lesson plans as part of their participation in an annual summer institute at the Library of Congress using the large online collections of the American Memory Project, which digitizes thousands of photographs, documents and recordings.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html

Cityfolk - This Dayton, Ohio organization documents and presents many programs, including educational projects such as a jazz education initiative.
http://www.cityfolk.org

City Lore - A NYC organization that documents and celebrates the folklife of the city and works nationally with teachers through the "CARTS Catalog" and other education resources and projects.
www.citylore.org

Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students - Website of the National Taskforce on Folk Arts in Education, which links to national resources, the online "CARTS Catalog" and folk artist registry.
www.carts.org

Cultural Documentation - American Folklife Center poster featuring lesson-plan ideas
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/poster/webresources.html

Fieldworking - This site supports an online community for people engaged in cultural conservation and takes its name from the book by Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater an Bonnie Sunstein.
http://www.fieldworking.com/home.html

Folklore in the Classroom - curriculum guide published in 1985 by Indiana Historical Bureau
www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/publications/classroomres.html

Louisiana Voices -- a pioneering guide for integrating traditional arts and culture into 4th and 8th grade classrooms
http://www.louisianavoices.org/edu_home.html

NEH Edsitement - The National Endowment for the Humanities selects top-notch education Websites in the humanities.
www.edsitement.neh.gov

Montana Heritage Project - Home of a statewide network of educators and students engaged in community documentation and cultural heritage education with extensive articles and teaching ideas.
www.montanaheritageproject.org

Oregon Folklife Program "Masters of Ceremony" - Lessons based on four immigrant folk artists' work and rites of passage.
www.ohs.org/exhibitions/moc/shell.htm

Public Broadcasting System - Resources include online lessons such as River of Song with lessons on traditional music up and down the Mississippi River; The New Americans on immigration; Vietnam: Stories Since the War which has dozens of archived personal stories; Africans in America, which includes excellent content and oral history collection tips; and ideas for utilizing folk tales in film from Davenport films and From the Brothers Grimm.
www.pbs.org

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage - Find online curriculum such as "Borders and Identity" about the US-Mexico border as well as kits to order and a link to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, which offers great recordings e specially useful for American History and social studies.
www.folklife.si.edu

WebCT Cultural Diversity Forum - Folklorist and technology/online learning specialist Gail Matthews-DeNatale is among the hosts of dialogues and online events such as simulcasts on this e-learning Website. Past topics included Cultural Diversity: Holidays and Calendar Customs.
http://www.blackboard.com/us/index.Bb


Artist Resources:
Artswire and Visual Artists Information Hotline - useful resource for artists (health insurance for artists, grant programs, filing taxes, copyright basics, etc.)
www.nyfa.org


National Folklore Sites:
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/

Fund for Folk Culture
www.folkculture.org

National Endowment for the Arts
www.arts.gov

National Council for the Traditional Arts
http://ncta.net/

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
http://www.folklife.si.edu/

American Folklore Society
http://afsnet.org/


Regional Folklife Program Websites:
Michigan Traditional Arts Program - Michigan State University Museum
http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/MTAP/index.html

Kentucky Folklife Program
Kentucky Folklife Program
Kentucky Folk Web -- Western Kentucky University
http://www.wku.edu/kentuckyfolkweb

Illinois Arts Council Folk Arts Program
http://www.state.il.us/agency/iac/


Other sites of interest for cultural documentation:
Center for Cultural Documentation - Duke University
www.indivisible.org

Veterans Oral History Project - American Folklife Center
www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/