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A brightly colored painting of a curandera performing a healing in a bedroom. A woman in a red floral dress leans over a person lying in bed with a cloth on their forehead, sweeping a green palm frond across the turquoise bedspread. A boy in a horse-print shirt watches from the foot of the bed, resting his chin on his hands beside a red apple. Incense smoke rises from a blue can on the floor. The room holds an image of the Virgen de Guadalupe, a lit candle, family portraits on the wall, a sewing machine, and a window looking out onto green leaves.

July 23, 2026

Reconnecting Through Curanderismo: Exploring Healing Traditions in South Texas

Reconnecting Through Curanderismo: Exploring Healing Traditions in South Texas by Oddett Garza, Texas Folklife Community Folklife Fellow Growing up in…

Posted By: Mariela Freire

July 16, 2026

Yiddish Life through Song: When Memory Becomes Performance

Yiddish Life through Song: When Memory Becomes Performance by Samantha Goldberg Blackthorn, Texas Folklife Community Folklife Fellow The Project and…

Posted By: Mariela Freire

Hands shaping a lavender tissue paper flower at a workshop table scattered with colored paper, scissors, and partly finished blossoms.

July 9, 2026

Flor y Palma: Traditions of la primavera in South Tejas

Flor y Palma: Traditions of la primavera in South Tejas by Beto De León, Texas Folklife Community Folklife Fellow Flor…

Posted By: Mariela Freire

Color photograph of a group of barefoot dancers mid-leap in a studio with wood floors and white walls, arms raised, wearing casual practice clothes.

July 2, 2026

Archiving the Ephemeral: the Art of Preserving Dance

Archiving the Ephemeral: the Art of Preserving Dance by Amber Ortega, Texas Folklife Community Folklife Fellow San Antonio’s story of…

Posted By: Mariela Freire

June 29, 2026

The Light We Carry Forward

July: The Light We Carry Forward by Elisha Oliver, PhD Executive Director, Texas Folklife Some of my earliest Fourth of…

Posted By: Mariela Freire

Reconnecting Through Curanderismo: Exploring Healing Traditions in South Texas

Yiddish Life through Song: When Memory Becomes Performance

Flor y Palma: Traditions of la primavera in South Tejas

Archiving the Ephemeral: the Art of Preserving Dance

The Light We Carry Forward

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