Read our 2024 Impact Report, Vermont Folklife at 40, to learn about our recent programs, partnerships, and accomplishments.
Tradition, Innovation, and Culture
Vermont Folklife’s mission is to deepen our understanding of each other by engaging with communities across the state to document and share everyday expressions of tradition, innovation, and culture.
Vermont Folklife builds programs around community concerns and our partners’ expertise. We root our work with educators, students, traditional artists and musicians, researchers, and non-profit professionals in the process of collaborative ethnographic inquiry, seeking to understand experience from the perspective of the people to whom an experience belongs.
Through techniques such as interviewing, cultural documentation and media production, we recognize every individual in Vermont as valuable and significant, as an expert in their own arenas of activity, as creative, smart, and capable. No one is on the margins; no one is dismissible.
Explore Vermont Folklife
-
![]()
Read the latest "Did You Know?"
-
![]()
It's our 40th Anniversary!
-
![]()
Traditional Arts Apprenticeship
-
![]()
Visions of the Future
Where to Find Us
Vermont Folklife shares events, exhibits, and workshops across the state. Our offices are not open to the public, however our staff are actively working in communities around Vermont. To see what we’ve been up to lately, please visit our blog or check out our newsletter.
Vermont Folklife exhibits are displayed at a range of locations around the state. To see where we have exhibits on display at the moment, visit our exhibits page or events calendar.
Elements of our Archive are available online through our digital archive. For all other inquiries, please email Archivist Andy Kolovos.
