Resources: Cultural Heritage
Brooklyn Arts Council's Cultural Heritage is a locally renowned program with international reach. We are proud to be associated with national and state cultural heritage organizations that offer a wide range of online resources.
AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus
The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is a searchable online vocabulary that can be used to improve access to information about folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and related fields.
Alliance for california traditional arts
As a leading advocate for the folk and traditional arts, ACTA is weaving a more integrated, more understanding, and more empathetic social fabric across California.
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
Designated by the U.S. Congress as the national center for folklife documentation and research, the American Folklife Center continues to collect and document living traditional culture, while preserving for the future its unparalleled collections in the state-of-the-art preservation facilities of the Library of Congress.
American Folklore Society
The American Folklore Society website connects the Society to its members and also connects folklorists to each other and to the world at large.
Center for Traditional Music and Dance
Founded in 1968, the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD) assists New York City’s immigrant communities to preserve the vitality of their distinctive performing arts traditions and promotes cross-cultural understanding by sharing these art forms with audiences across the city.
City Lore
Founded in 1986, City Lore’s mission is to foster New York City – and America’s – living cultural heritage through education and public programs.
New York Folklore Society
New York Folklore was founded in 1944 as an offshoot of the New York State Historical Association to provide an opportunity for individuals interested in folklore in New York to share their collecting activities and their scholarship, and to provide a vehicle for continued folklife activities in the state.
Open Folklore
Open Folklore, a partnership of the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, is a scholarly communications effort to make a greater number and variety of useful resources available to folklorists.
Philadelphia Folklore Project
Established in 1987, Philadelphia Folklore Project is an independent public folklife agency that documents, supports, and presents Philadelphia-area folk arts and culture, including the arts of people who have been in Philadelphia for generations and those who have just arrived.
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution that produces the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, exhibitions, documentary films and videos, symposia, publications, and educational materials.
Texas Folklife
Texas Folklife is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the diverse cultures and living heritage of the Lone Star State.
Vermont Folklife Center
Founded in 1984, the Vermont Folklife Center is a nationally known folklife education organization that uses ethnography—the study of cultural experience through interviewing, participation, and observation—to strengthen the understanding of the cultural and social fabric of Vermont's diverse communities.
Our Cultural Heritage Program
The Cultural Heritage network is vast, with many collectives working tirelessly to preserve cultural traditions across the United States. Here are additional organizations that Brooklyn Arts Council is pleased to consider colleagues.