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José Soto, Mexican folkloric dancer
Learn about how we support traditional artists in Arizona through our Master-Apprentice Artist Award.
End of Life Programs
SFA’s End of Life: Continuum (EOL) project shares cultural knowledge about traditions, expressions, and practices associated with end of life, grief, mourning and death ... [Continue Reading]
VozFrontera in Nogales
A city without culture is a dead city. You just live to eat and work. Where there’s no creativity, no spontaneity, it’s a challenge to get your dreams going. –Gustavo ... [Continue Reading]
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My Sunrise: How I came of age the Apache way
by Brooke Gregg The Apache Sunrise Dance is a beautiful ceremony that has been going on for centuries to strengthen a young woman during her coming of age and offer her blessings for a strong, long life. Most of my friends had dances and they told me how they had fun and how special it […]
Honoring Traditions/Bridging Generations
We’re happy to share this video from Honoring Traditions/Bridging Generations, an educational program offered by the Arizona State Museum celebrating traditional artists in the state. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the program brought together master and emerging artists to learn from each other and to stimulate dialogue about their […]
Singing Agaves: An Interview with Violin Maker Anthony Belvado
Anthony Belvado is a violin maker from the San Carlos Apache Tribe. Traditional Apache violins are made by hand from a hollowed agave stalk and embody respect for plants and community. Their song is said to be a way of summoning true love, and the tradition—which dates back to the 1800s—is passed along male lineage. […]
Asylum/Asilo: Bearing Witness as Cultural Practice
by Kimi Eisele Tens of thousands of migrants, many from Central America, arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border last year seeking asylum. While the law allows them to arrive and seek refuge, the backlog of cases and ever-changing policies have mired their arrivals with injustices. For many Jewish Americans, these injustices have revived a sense of […]