Passing It On: Documentation, Preservation, Presentation
For generations, Texas has carried its stories, songs, and skills forward not through institutions alone, but through people — a master artist teaching an apprentice, a grandmother’s recipe becoming a family’s foodway, a song passed from porch to porch until it belonged to an entire community. Texas Folklife exists to protect that transmission, and Friends of Texas Folklife is how we invite you to be part of it.
Every gift, at every level, goes directly toward sustaining the people and practices that make Texas culture what it is — funding apprenticeships between master artists and the next generation, supporting young accordionists at the Big Squeeze, documenting traditions before they’re lost, bringing creativity to older Texans, and telling these stories through MOSAIC. When you give, you become part of the chain that keeps tradition alive — you become a Friend of Texas Folklife, standing with the artists, elders, and communities who carry Texas forward.
FRIEND- $35: Introduces Texans of all ages to the folk and traditional arts of their communities.
STORYTELLER – $65: Supports the documentation of Texas traditions — includes a subscription to MOSAIC, the Texas Folklife quarterly publication.
TRADITION CARRIER – $100: Supports 2 youth enrolled in our folk and traditional arts family of programs. (MOSAIC subscription included).
COMMUNITY CARETAKER – $250: Supports Archival preservation— preserving Texas traditions for future generations (MOSAIC subscription included).
FOLK SAINT – $500: Powers a full year of hands-on programming — Apprenticeships, The Folklorist Next Door Fellowship, creative aging workshops, and Texas Folklife Events (MOSAIC subscription included).
LEGACY GUARDIAN – $1500+: Sustains Texas Folklife’s full body of work across each region of the Lone Star State.