Folk and Traditional Arts Partnership
The Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance has recently been named as a new partner in the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Folk and Traditional Arts Partnership.
Folk and Traditional Arts are defined as those artistic traditions characteristic of specific ethnic, religious, linguistic, occupational, or regional groups. These arts are shaped and shared within families, neighborhoods, and communities. They are passed down from one generation to another and learned through ongoing participation in community-based activities, and through observation, practice or apprenticeships with elders and masters rather than through classes, books or other means of institutional instruction.
