FACTS School-Wide Folk Arts Residency Spiral Curriculum

by | Sep 16, 2025

Welcome to the Folk Arts – Cultural Treasures School (FACTS) and the Philadelphia Folklore Project’s (PFP) teachers’ guide for a school-wide folk arts residency. Here we share our experiences about an approach to education that we believe matters, our thinking about a...

Art and Narrative

by | Sep 18, 2024

This curriculum guide explores the relationship arts education and teaching with primary sources that come out of ethnographic documentation and often feature folk and traditional arts. Learning Objectives Access new primary source sets developed with Visual Arts and...
Heritage Fellow Michael Doucet Virtual Residency

Heritage Fellow Michael Doucet Virtual Residency

by | Aug 18, 2021

When I wanted to find heroes, I went into my neighborhood. They may not wear Superman costumes, but they are real heroes. –Michael Doucet Found dancing and singing “You Ain’t Nothing But a Hound Dog” in the middle of the highway when he was a toddler, Michael...
Heritage Fellow Rosa Elena Egipciaco Virtual Residency

Heritage Fellow Rosa Elena Egipciaco Virtual Residency

by | Aug 18, 2021

National Heritage Fellow, 2003 Master Lacemaker “For me mundillo (lacemaking) is an art because, like the painter who has in his imagination what he wants to create on the canvas, so it is for us: we create, invent, and design what we want to make in lace.” –Rose...