The Bea Roeder Fund:
For the Future of Public Folklore in the West

Bea Roeder in Tonga
Photo by Marilyn Reilly. Courtesy of Dave Roeder

This fund, named in honor of western folklorist Bea Roeder, provides support for graduate students, undergraduate students, and community scholars with demonstrated interest in a career in public folklore, to attend the annual Association of Western States Folklorists (AWSF) meeting.  AWSF has established this Fund as a way to celebrate Bea’s life and work and to create opportunities for networking and professional development for a new generation of public folklorists and cultural workers.  The fund is administered by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) on behalf of AWSF.

General Guidelines

The Bea Roeder Fund will be awarded to graduate and undergraduate students or community scholars who show a demonstrated interest in public sector folklore.  The fund will provide the recipient(s) up to $400 to be used to attend the annual AWSF meeting.

Applications need to be postmarked by March 1, 2008.  Download, complete, and print application form.  Please mail to The Bea Roeder Fund, c/o Russ Fuqua, 1621 17th Avenue #103, Seattle, WA 98122.  Award announcements will be made by March 15, 2008.  Recipient(s) will receive notification of their stipend amount at that time.  The recipient(s) of this award agree(s) to attend the annual meeting of the Association of Western States Folklorists in Port Townsend, Washington, April 12-16, 2008.  Funding will be used to cover, in part, travel to and from the conference, meals, and accommodations.

For more information, contact:
Ross Fuqua
(314) 255-9953
rossfuqua@gmail.com

Georgia Wier
(970) 350-9249
georgiawier@aol.com

Join Us in Supporting This Worthy Cause!

This fund is offered in memory of folklorist Bea Roeder whose vision, humanity, and passion for the field inspired and impacted folklorists, students, community scholars, and people from many cultures around the world.

Please help us support the professional development of students, young professionals, and community scholars interested in public folklore!

You may make a tax-deductible donation online using a credit card through ACTA’s PayPal service.

To send a check, download, complete, and print the contribution form. Please mail, along with your contribution, to The Bea Roeder Fund, c/o ACTA, 1245 Van Ness Avenue, Fresno, California, 93721.  Feel free to contact Amy Kitchener, ACTA’s Executive Director, at (559) 237-9813 or akitch@actaonline.org with any questions you may have.

About Bea Roeder

Bea Roeder passed away suddenly on June 12, 2003.  She was known to her friends, family and colleagues as warm, caring and involved.  She was married to Dave Roeder and had two sons, Mark and Bryan.  Bea loved to travel, and enjoyed people, culture and ecology everywhere.  Bea worked as a Colorado State Folklorist for the Colorado Council on the Arts (CCA) since 1988.  During that time she was involved in both statewide and local folklore, historical projects, archiving and oral history collections.  In 1990 at the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities Bea organized the first Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering, an event which is still going strong after fifteen annual gatherings.  She was a force behind the CCA/National Endowment for the Arts project "Ties That Bind,” a folklore education multimedia kit for teachers, and she deeply enjoyed conducting education workshops and partnerships.  She organized the Colorado Folk Arts Festival at Four Mile Historic Park.  She was deeply involved with Native American culture and spirituality, and a student of the Lakota language.

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