Society for Folk Arts Preservation, Inc.

Our Founders

Our Founders.
The Society for Folk Arts Preservation is a nonprofit organization, singular in its goal of preserving living folk art and crafts traditions world wide, on film and video.  Kalika Stern, Executive Director, has traveled throughout Asia as a photographer with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and as a painter, illustrator, consultant and developer of educational materials for the New York State Department of Education.  As a photographer and lecturer, her work has been shown in major museums and universities.  The Society's board members and advisors are knowledgeable scholars and artists on worldwide Living Arts and Crafts traditions.  Dr. Erika Moser, Vice President, Visual Anthropologist, Universities of Cologne, and Heidelberg, West Germany, has produced fourteen films of women painters of northern Bihar (India).  Mrs.Kamaladevi Chattopahyaya, a former advisor and great friend of the Society, founded the All India Handicrafts Board at India's Independence, and traveled throughout India reviving craft traditions.  She is known as India's Handcrafts "Mother."