This is only one of several Lithuanian/Latvian-centered events planned for ”The Creativity of Tradition: The Survival and Renewal of Folk Culture in the Lithuanian and Latvian Communities” at ...

127th St. encompasses much that Lithuanian-Americans treasure of their native country: their Catholic religion, their art work and folklore, their history and especially their language.

Kari Petrulis’ parents enrolled him in the Lithuanian church in Detroit, Mich., and he grew up taking folk dance lessons, playing competitive sports and going to summer camps and folk dance ...

There, through prints by Goya, Callot and Dürer, which Varnelis diligently collected, you can see a fusion of American constructivism and geometric motifs drawn from Lithuanian folklore.

K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art. Though steeped in Lithuanian folklore and mythology, Čiurlionis’s visionary paintings in pastels and tempera engage with the resurgence of spirituality ...