Current Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects Grantees

2025-2026 Grantees

The below funded projects will take place between July 2025 and June 2026.   

Delaware 

Elevate Vocal Arts 
Spirituals: America’s Black Folk Music 
Wilmington, DE 

District of Columbia

Crushing Colonialism 
Crushing Colonialism’s Traditional Storytelling Festival 
Washington, DC 

Maryland 

Ankole, Inc.  
Circus Arts Summer Professional Workshop 
Towson, MD 

Muse 360 
Open Classroom Series: Transformation of Memory 
Baltimore, MD 

New Jersey  

Indian Heritage and Cultural Association of NJ (IHCA-NJ) 
Nritya Darpan 25 
Matawan, NJ 

Umoja Dance Company 
Bridging the Gap: Umoja Dance Company and Sunu Percu Dance Summer 2025 Exchange 
Montclair, NJ 

New York  

Accent Dance NYC 
Multicultural Community Dance Performance at The Boys & Girls Club in Mt. Vernon, NY 
New York, NY 

ALT Alliance 
Healing through Art: Cultural Art Healing Workshops 
New York, NY 

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre (Notes in Motion) 
Notes in Motion/Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre’s Teaching Artist Workshop Series 
New York, NY 

Association for Cultural Equity 
An Art & Audio Exhibition Featuring Alan Lomax’s 1936 Haiti Recordings 
New York, NY 

Grupo Cultural Latinos en Rochester (GCLER) 
Project Carnaval 
Webster, NY 

Nuyorican Poets Café 
WomXn Orators Wednesday (WOW) 
New York, NY 

Society of the Educational Arts 
Arte pa mi Gente Festival 
New York, NY 

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY) 
Threads of Connection: Mohawk Arts and Environmental Stewardship 
Canton, NY  

Pennsylvania   

3 Dots Downtown 
Roots + Threads: Women’s Folk Artist Archive, Directory, and Engagement Program 
State College, PA 

Erie Arts & Culture 
Use the Groove: Folk Songs for Strong Kids, Classrooms, and Communities 
Erie, PA 

Puerto Rico  

Arte y Maña 
Fiesta Centinela Community Festival 
San Juan, PR 

Escuela de Bomba y Plena Caridad Brenes de Cepeda 
Zafra: A Tribute to Afro-Puerto Rican Heritage 
San Juan, PR  

U.S. Virgin Islands 

Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts (CMCArts) 
CMCArts St. Croix Festival Children’s Parade Troupe 
Frederiksted, VI 

Virginia  

Venture Richmond 
“Riverlore”: The Virginia Folklife Area at the Richmond Folk Festival 
Richmond, VA 

Victory Hall Opera 
Gullah Meditations: A Staged/Choreographed Performance of New Arrangements of Traditional Gullah Spirituals 
Charlottesville, VA