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The web site of Local Learning links to national and regional resources and virtual folk artist residencies, specifically relating to Upper Midwestern cultures. "Archiving Projects promote organizational partnerships to identify, preserve, and make accessible for public use the region's historic and contemporary folk heritage as documented in audio and video interviews, photography, exhibits, and publications resulting primarily from ethnographic fieldwork. These projects serve the teaching, research, and outreach needs of the Center's staff, affiliated faculty, public folklorists, scholars, documented traditional practitioners and their heirs, and others interested in exploring and promoting the region's folk heritage."

"The mission of the Museum of International Folk Art is to enrich the human spirit by connecting people with the arts, traditions, and cultures of the world."

A video-streaming national preserve of American folk culture documentaries and offers users extensive background materials for each film. Use excerpts or entire films and the Educators Portal.

"...a virtual extension of City Lore's educational programs and its National Network for Folk Arts in Education. As you explore the people, places, and traditions that turn communities into classrooms, stock your cart high with the many useful resources available inside."

This is the place to meet Wisconsin artists who highlight their cultures and traditions in their art.

"Culture in Context: A Tapestry of Expression is an exhibit at the New Jersey State Museum ... presenting these traditional art forms and the folk artists who create them. Their stories and art together create a vibrant, living tapestry of New Jersey." I really like the style of this website.

This is a comprehensive Web-based guide with many lessons, essays, photos, video, and audio is public domain and adaptable for any region that is focused on the culture of Louisiana.

This is an online learning guide for (but certainly not limited to) students, teachers, and senior citizens interested in the folk life of Iowa.

The website is an "award-winning online lifelong multimedia learning guide for all ages. A new volume is at www.uni.edu/iowaonline/folklife_v2."

This is an online interactive art project which gives users video, audio, and text options to explore folk artists of Florida, including bobble head dolls who represent real-life scholars of the state's traditional culture.

"The FRC (Folklike Resource Center) houses an extensive archive containing a wide variety of materials in multiple formats. The project addresses two goals. The first goal involves transferring all of these analog formats into a more stable digital medium. This requires the digitization of thousands of photographs and slides, hundreds of hours of analog audio and video documentation. The second goal - user accessibility. Website visitors will now have unprecedented access to the archive through audio, video, and image-based media. Never before has the material housed in the FRC been available to such a wide audience."

This is site about intangible cultural heritage in newfoundland...includes community profiles and topic collections.