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Up Close in the Studio with Master Artists Ron Carlos & Alice Manuel
Visit the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to learn basketmaking and pottery with master artists
Saturday, June 30, 2018
10am-2pm Cost: $60, lunch included
This Is Folklife: Summer Classes
This Is Folklife: Classes and Workshops Our "This Is Folklife" series offers cultural immersion experiences (Up Close), focused explorations of culture in action ... [Continue Reading]
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]
Become a Member
Invest in the Beauty of Everyday Life. Become a Member of SFA Today! Now more than ever, cultural learning is an important part of being a loving citizen and a ... [Continue Reading]
La Doce Research Findings
SFA is pleased to announce the release of La Doce Barrio Foodways: A report on community knowledge and recommendations for sustainable change. This bilingual report shares findings from the La Doce Barrio Foodways Project, a project which aimed to look beyond the commercial landscape to identify opportunities for food resiliency and creativity among residents. The […]
Seeding the Future: Youth Border Dialogues
Story and photographs by Maxwell Gay It’s an early afternoon in March in Nogales, Arizona, and the confluence of two nations is abuzz with middle school and high school youth. They unfold tables and chairs, pass out water bottles, and set up a small stage facing the nearly 20-foot-high steel fence that separates this town […]
Learning Purpose: Kathy Lohse on the Culture of the Classroom
Arizona teachers have been in the news lately, bringing attention to the realities of the occupation. We figured it was a good time to honor them by going inside the classroom and to shed some light on the occupational folklife of public school. Kathy Lohse has worked for 37 years as a teacher in public […]