Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Interdisciplinary artist, musician, educator, and curator of Native art at the Philbrook Museum of Art, @kalynfay uses their arts to build bridges of understanding and find intersections among people. Drawing on their Cherokee heritage, Fay’s weavings, storytelling, music, and contemporary craft focuses on community, collaboration, reflection, and empathy.
At the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, representing the Ozarks, Fay performed daily alongside cellist Matt Magerkurth.
Editing: Eve Moore
© Smithsonian Institution, 2023
Interdisciplinary artist, musician, educator, and curator of Native art at the Philbrook Museum of Art, @kalynfay uses their arts to build bridges of understanding and find intersections among people. Drawing on their Cherokee heritage, Fay’s weavings, storytelling, music, and contemporary craft focuses on community, collaboration, reflection, and empathy.
At the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, representing the Ozarks, Fay performed daily alongside cellist Matt Magerkurth.
Editing: Eve Moore
© Smithsonian Institution, 2023
![De Libertate: Sounds of Freedom and Hope from Ukraine [updated]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kBJ9Ew9WTQs/mqdefault.jpg "De Libertate: Sounds of Freedom and Hope from Ukraine [updated]
On the Fourth of July, De Libertate: Songs of Freedom and Hope from Ukraine features four groups of performing artists who express and share Ukrainian identity, tradition, and cultural resilience through the power of song. The four groups—Bozhychi, Katya Chilly, Mariya Kvitka, and Shchuka Ryba—use folk, traditional, and contemporary styles to illustrate how music unites and inspires the Ukrainian people during this pivotal moment in their history.
ACCESSIBILITY: Live real-time captioning is available for this program.")
