Virginia Folklife Area
The Virginia Folklife Program works year-round to document, present, celebrate, and preserve Virginia’s rich traditional folkways. Please visit us at www.virginiafolklife.org.
About the Virginia Folklife Program
Since its inception in 1988, the Virginia Folklife Program has worked to document, present, and support the state’s living cultural folkways. The Folklife Program awards apprenticeships to master artists of traditional folkways, and produces educational materials and programs for the general public, including festival presentations, workshops, music and video recordings, performances, lectures, and exhibitions. The Folklife Program conducts fieldwork throughout the Commonwealth, capturing the stories of everyday people living extraordinary lives, and documenting many ways of life that are unique to the region, and may be on the cusp of great change. The field material collected by the Folklife Program results in the production of sound and video recordings, as well as a growing fieldwork archive.
The Virginia Folklife Program is a public program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), which encourages discovery and connection through the humanities by supporting and producing programs for a wide public audience. The VFH works with individuals and communities to explore the past, confront issues of the present, and discover a promising future.