Virginia Humanities

📣 Our Virginia Folklife Program is now accepting applications for its 2025–2026 Folklife Apprenticeship Program! We provide $5,000 in funding for an individual who is considered a master of a tradition to train an apprentice of their choosing. Projects in music, dance, crafts, community storytelling, cultural reclamation, traditional healing, agriculture, foodways, and specialty trades are all welcome. 📅 Application deadline: Monday, May 5, 2025 🔗 Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/IwpiAZA #Virginia #Folklife #VaFolklife #Apprenticeships

We imagine many of you have been reading and hearing news about White House executive orders and the current and future status of federal funding for agencies like ours that receive some of those funds to do our work. With this in mind, we're sharing the following statement from our Executive Director, Matthew Gibson... As the Commonwealth’s Humanities Council—which we’ve been proud to be for the past fifty years—Virginia Humanities is the state affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities. In that role, we receive approximately 15% of our operational and program funding from the federal government. Because of people like you who support and advocate for cultural enrichment and the preservation and dissemination of local stories and heritage, we are fortunate to have additional individual, corporate, and state government support. At this time, Virginia Humanities will continue to move forward with all grant and fellowship opportunities and programs that serve you, the residents of this great state. If this changes, we will let you know as soon as possible.... Your support and engagement are what make our work possible. Together we will navigate whatever comes next with the strength of our commitment to see one another’s humanity, to explore our state’s past and present, and to use the powerful tools that the humanities give us to navigate times of uncertainty. Read more: https://loom.ly/yNUYOPI

Going on a road trip soon? Check out this new virtual tour from the American Friends of Lafayette that will bring history to life as you drive across parts of Virginia! With support from a Virginia Humanities grant, the American Friends of Lafayette created a mobile tour that highlights sites in Virginia visited by Lafayette during his 1824-1825 Farewell Tour. Learn more & download the tour: https://lnkd.in/eBba7FkK 📸 Photos courtesy of the American Friends of Lafayette #VirginiaHumanities #History #VirtualTour #Lafayette

Just one week left to apply! Are you an educator passionate about history, culture, and the humanities? Or do you know someone who is? This opportunity supports educators in developing humanities-focused projects that inspire students and communities. 🍎 Open to K-12 educators in Virginia (teachers, media specialists, librarians, curriculum specialists, after-school specialists, and home school teachers) ✏️ Provides funding and resources 📓 Helps bring innovative ideas to life 🔗 Learn more & apply by Monday, March 3: https://loom.ly/Floj4TY #Virginia #Humanities #Education #Fellowship #K12

Tickets are selling fast! Get your tix to the public lecture ($33.60) now. Or join us for a special awards dinner and ceremony before the main event. During the dinner, we will celebrate remarkable individuals and organizations with three statewide humanities awards recognizing exceptional contributions to the humanities in Virginia. Details at https://loom.ly/ugV4RyM

Sheren Sanders says one of her favorite things about the HBCU Scholars Fellowship is that it gives her a platform. Sheren's research focuses on the Readjuster Party, a pivotal yet short-lived successful biracial coalition in Virginia in the post-Reconstruction era. We're currently accepting applications for the HBCU Scholars Fellowship. Applicants must be affiliated (alumni, faculty, or current doctoral candidate) with one of Virginia's historically Black colleges or universities. The application deadline is Sunday, March 2. Apply: https://loom.ly/iCHcnl4 #hbcu #virginia #humanities #fellowship #history #blackhistory CC: Virginia State University

Last chance to register! At noon on Wednesday, Feb.19, join Encyclopedia Virginia’s managing editor Patti Miller in conversation with Andrew Lawler, author of “A Perfect Frenzy: Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution,” to learn about the Ethiopian Regiment, the all-Black unit that fought for Britain—and their freedom—in the early days of the American Revolution in Virginia. 🔗 Register for this free webinar: https://loom.ly/YYJpHNA #Virginia #Humanities #EncyclopediaVa

"This project is larger than any other that VQM has undertaken, and we wanted to make sure that we could reach an audience beyond our members and visitors." - Alicia Thomas, executive director The Virginia Quilt Museum Hear more from Alicia about this ambitious three-year project, which aims to honor specific people, places, events, or ideas from Virginia history. #Virginia #Humanities #Quilting #History #quilts

Join us as legal expert and author Timothy J. Heaphy draws on his unique role as the lead investigator for two pivotal events: the 2017 racist and antisemitic riot in Charlottesville and the insurrection on January 6, 2021 to explore what these moments reveal about the declining trust in institutions and, more broadly, the state of American democracy. This event takes place Feb 20 in Charlottesville at UVA's Garrett Hall. Hosted by the Karsh Institute of Democracy in partnership with the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, Public Service Pathways, and the Virginia Festival of the Book. https://loom.ly/-PTU2jk

At noon on Wednesday, Feb.19, join Encyclopedia Virginia’s managing editor Patti Miller in conversation with Andrew Lawler, author of “A Perfect Frenzy: Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution,” to learn about the Ethiopian Regiment, the all-Black unit that fought for Britain—and their freedom—in the early days of the American Revolution in Virginia. 🔗 Register for this free webinar: https://loom.ly/YYJpHNA #Virginia #Humanities #EncyclopediaVa