Services, projects, and programs of the Alabama Folklife Association are supported by grants and funding from the following:

(National Endowment for the Arts)

The Daniel Foundation of Alabama

The Caring Foundation of

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

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The Alabama Folklife Association (AFA) is a statewide non-profit organization dedicted to the documentation, preservation, and promotion of Alabama's folklife.  To learn more about the organization: membership, staff, and Board of Directors, click here......   

Folklife includes traditional cultural and artistic expressions that are passed down from one generation to the next through families, communites, regions, or groups.  Examples are quilts, music, basketry, folklore, pottery, foodways, dances, medicinal practices, decoration day, and folk architecture.

The exhibit, Alabama in the Making: Traditional Arts of People and Place

currently on display at 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center, Spanish Fort, Alabama.