What is the Maryland Traditions program?
Maryland Traditions:

• is a partnership of the Maryland State Arts Council and the Maryland Historical Trust
• is a statewide program that supports communities to discover, share, preserve and sustain traditional arts and culture
• connects people to one another and to a place
• works directly with individuals and cultural institutions to encourage the vitality of living traditions and folk arts
• shares information through publication, interpretation, presentation and outreach
• receives funding from the National Endowment of the Arts through its Folk Arts Infrastructure Initiative

What are Maryland Traditions?

• shared expressions of living culture
• part of the fabric of our communities
• passed on from generation to generation
• learned by word of mouth or example, from master to apprentice, from parent to child
• found, repeated and valued in Maryland homes, workplaces and neighborhoods
• may be unique to our state or carried from another region or a distant homeland
• continued over time, ever changing but still recognizable
• recognized as our folklore, folk arts and culture- our enduring living traditions