On Friday, January 31st, ACE, together with ENU Builds, premiered ‘The Art of Protest', a multimedia exhibit that paired visual art by NYC-based artists with audio recordings, many of which were from the Alan Lomax Archive. The 2-day event was held at the Lab at Yonkers Arts in Yonkers, NY.
Our Italian colleagues at Centro Studi Alan Lomax, located in Palermo, Sicily, are presenting a multimedia exhibition, Sicilia 1954: Il viaggio musicale di Alan Lomax e Diego Carpitella (Sicily 1954: The musical journey of Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella).
We are pleased to announce that ACE has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $40,000. This grant will support digitizing, cataloging, and repatriating the 1935-39 Florida recordings made by Zora Neale Hurston and John and Alan Lomax, and hold workshops and a community scholar institute in the source communities. In total, the NEA will award 1,135 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling more than $37 million as part of its second round of fiscal year 2024 grants.
The Association for Cultural Equity is excited to announce the appointment of Sarah Luisa Bryan as Executive Director of ACE, a role fulfilled so productively by the cultural visionary Anna Lomax Wood.
On November 2, 2022, PLOS ONE published the scientific paper, “The Global Jukebox: A Public Database of Performing Arts and Culture” by Drs. Anna L. Wood (the Association for Cultural Equity at Hunter College, NY), Patrick E. Savage (Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan) and 17 colleagues.
Anna Lomax Wood honored at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Tulsa, Oklahome on Oct. 15, 2022, where the Mediterranean Section of AFS sponsored a Tribute to Anna Lomax Wood. Joseph Sciorra (John D.
ACE researcher Michael Cormier-O’Leary explores the Global Jukebox, using the Cantometrics system to trace musical similarities between songs of Southeast Asia and the rest of the world.
