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Chronicling Culture in Crisis
The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting everyday life and cultural expressions around the nation and across the world. This series features individuals and their communities as they use their traditions and creativity to respond not only to the public health crisis but also economic uncertainty, structural racism, and climate change.
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The Power of Cups: Ife Williams Teaches Craft Skills and Entrepreneurship through PotteryLearn how Williams designed her project, about the social life of cups, and the importance of changing expectations about who can be a potter.
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The Monsters of Fear: A Catalan Opera Adapts Greek Myth to Understand the Refugee CrisisSince 1993, 33,293 people have drowned in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic trying to reach a safe place to start a new life.
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Els monstres de la por: el Liceu adapta un mite grec per explicar la crisi de les persones refugiadesDes del 1993, 33.293 persones han mort ofegades en alta mar al Mediterrani i a l’Atlàntic intentant arribar a un lloc segur on poder reprendre les seves vides.
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Choirs Against Fear: Reinterpreting Raimon’s Anti-Fascist Lyrics TodayThe Coral Càrmina of Catalonia answers the challenge to arrange a song from the Smithsonian Folkways catalog.
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Indonesian Batik Education: Going Virtual, Growing in RootednessOne Javanese text describes batik not only as an art form, but also as a method of individual character building.
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Craft Futures in COVID: Namita Gupta Wiggers and Lisa Woolfork in ConversationTwo leading craft thinkers and makers discuss how craft is shaping their communities and identities during the global pandemic.
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How Ranchers in the Flint Hills of Kansas Cope with the COVID PandemicThough I will forever be in love with the landscape, the best part of this adventure, by far, has been the people I’ve met along the way.
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Kichwa Otavalan Communities in Ecuador Wrestle with the PandemicIn 2020, the pandemic altered plans for Inti Raymi, the Great Day-Sun Festival, celebrated during the June solstice in Otavalo.
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Comunidades Kichwa Otavaleñas en el Ecuador Luchan con la PandemiaEl Inti Raymi es el festival grande del sol y ocurre durante el solsticio vernal en junio. Este año sería drásticamente diferente.
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Ecuador Mama Llaktapi, Otavalo Runa Ayllullaktakuna Pandemia Llakichikukpi Imatalla Ruranakushkamanta27 puncha Panchi killa 2020 watapimi, COVID -19 unkuy Ecuador mama llaktaman chayashkata willachirka, chayka pusak horasta Otavalomanta rishpa, mama kucha manyapi tiyak Guayaquil kitipimi karka.
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