New York, NY—The American-Scandinavian Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of ASF’s Scandinavian Folk Arts and Cultural Traditions program. Introduced in 2017, this program helps to nurture the rich Scandinavian folk art traditions in the Upper Midwest (North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) by deepening the skills of master artists, fostering long-term relationships among masters and apprentices, and enhancing the traditions’ visibility through public programs and community projects.
The 2023-24 cohort is a group of worthy individuals and organizations whose dedication to traditional Scandinavian arts and skills is an inspiration to us all. We look forward to seeing their projects unfold while we marvel over innovative ways that our grantees from previous years have carried out projects and shared folk-art traditions with their local communities.