Applicants will find funding programs accessibly explained, with illustrated examples of funded projects. This site includes a sampling of objects from a permanent collection of Utah folk art and a statewide events listing. Projects developed from its field research are described in detail on this site. Artists awarded folk arts fellowships and apprenticeships are listed, and many of them are profiled alongside photos of their work. This site wins the prize for most delightfully interactive.
Visitors experience distinctively Southern traditions.
Audio samples of folk songs about the pleasures of moonshining are provided. Pages for ghost stories, jack tales, and bawdy ballads have features that enable visitors to add lines or create stories or songs of their own. The page for the National Hollerin' Contest in Spivey's Corner delineates the four major types of hollers and surprises with a sample holler that doesn't require any additional click at all. The online audio, photographic and publications content of this site is unusually strong. A radio series in RealAudio format features programs on such topics as birdhouses, blues singers and traditional pottery making, along with a number of other representative southern traditions.