The Susquenanna Folk Arts Center: resources and connections for the traditional arts community in Dauphin, Lebanon and Cumberland counties of south-central Pennsylvania. Our Folk Arts Center is evolving as the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, our founding partner, pivots to become Pennsylvania Creative Industries. (More about that change)

Amy Skillman, our folklorist

For over 30 years, Amy was Pennsylvania's state folklorist, managing the statewide folk arts infrastructure program for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and overseeing fieldwork around the state. Now living in Maryland, Amy is a part-time professor at Goucher College where she is the Academic Director for the Master's program in Cultural Sustainability. She is pleased to be doing fieldwork again in south-central Pennsylvania, her former backyard.

The Susquehanna Folk Music Society (SFMS) established its Folk Arts Center in 2019, as part of a statewide network of folk arts partners. Organized by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA), that partner network was created to celebrate Pennsylvania's diverse heritage of folk and traditional arts.

The Folk Arts Partner program was discontinued in October 2025, as part of the PCA's transformation to Pennsylvania Creative Industries.

Former PCA Folk Arts Partner organizations across the state include:

• Susquehanna Folk Music Society (Dauphin, Lebanon, Cumberland)
• Walk In Art Center (Carbon, Berks, Schuylkill)
• Philadelphia Folklore Project (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia)
• Community Partnerships RC&D (Juniata, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder, Union)
• Bottleworks (Blair, Cambria, Indiana, Somerset, Bedford)
• Erie Arts & Culture (Crawford, Erie, Warren)
• Rivers of Steel (Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Lawrence, Washington, Westmoreland)