Manager, Folk Arts & Heritage Program, Massachusetts Cultural Council (1999 to the present), Director of Cultural Programming, Lowell National Historical Park (2010- to the present). Director, Folklife Program, Georgia Council for the Arts (1992-1999)

Education and Accomplishments: PhD folklore & folklife, University of Pennsylvania (1987), BA ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University (1979). Publications & public folklore work: Produced Lowell Folklife Series (2010-2014); curated Folk Craft & Foodways area, Lowell Folk Festival (2008-present). Author of Keepers of Tradition: Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts (2008), The Lost World of the Craft Printer (1992), and Portrait of Spirit: One Story at a Time (1996). Co-directed documentary film Gandy Dancers (1994); produced Georgia Folk: A Sampler of Traditional Sound (1989). Exhibition: Keepers of Tradition: Art & Folk Heritage (2008) with companion website, public programs, and audio tour; Radio features on WBUR 90.9’s Here and Now and WUMB’s Commonwealth Journal. Member, American Folklore Society (since 1982), member AFS Public Programs Section (since 1995), AFS Program Committee (2013), Member, Folklorists in New England (1999-) and current chair (2012-13); Member, Folk Arts Peer Group Planning Committee for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (2013-14). Served as panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, Southern Arts Federation, New Jersey Arts Council, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and Maine Arts Commission.

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