June 2009
Humanities Council Invests More Than $73,000 in Nine Cultural Projects Across the State |
The funding supports a range of humanities addressing topics as diverse as the state’s changing landscape and African American coastal history. Approaches include videography, ethnography, public symposiums, touring exhibitions, scholarly publications, a literary festival, and service project. Program events begin in July 2009 and continue throughout 2010. > Read the full press release. |
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Yadkin Riverkeeper, Inc., for “A River of People,” a multi-media project exploring the complex dynamic between people and natural resources.
The project, which will include a traveling exhibit and catalog, uses as an entry-point the farming and immigrant communities of Surry, Yadkin, and Forsyth counties. |
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American Indian Center of the University of North Carolina for the “Implementation of a K-12 Curriculum on North Carolina Indians,” an interdisciplinary workshop for public school teachers from Title VII Indian Education programs. Teachers will utilize lesson plans from the recently published Curriculum Enrichment Project: North Carolina American Indian Studies. |
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North Carolina Folklife Institute for a “Community Folklife Documentation Institute.” Students statewide will study with oral historians, folklorists, and videographers to learn how to preserve North Carolina’s cultures, arts, and traditions. |
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Hidden Voices for “Home is Not One Story” about homeless North Carolinians. The project will broaden conceptions of homeless children, teens, and adults. “Home is Not One Story” includes an instructional workshop series, photographs by homeless North Carolinians, and a touring exhibit encompassing those images, along with digital audio and public video presentations. |
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Core Sound Waterfowl Museum for “A Collaborative Perspective of the Menhaden Fishing Industry of Carteret County” to support an ethnography of the commercial menhaden fishing industry, one of the oldest yet least recognized fishing cultures in North Carolina. The project will collect fishermen profiles for an exhibit and publication. |
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University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, “Rescue Men: The History of Pea Island Lifesavers,” a documentary film about the post-Civil War Outer Banks lifesaving station manned by an all-black crew and commanded by keeper Richard Etheridge, a former slave and Union Army veteran. |
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Elkland Art Center to support the first phase of “The Land and Us: A Todd Story,” a documentary film addressing the changing landscape in Watauga and Ashe counties. The project will include interviews crossing the public and private sectors with an emphasis on community dialogue. |
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Ashe County Arts Council for the literary festival “On the Same Page: A Celebration of Reading,” featuring acclaimed North Carolina writers Georgann Eubanks, Jill McCorkle, Pamela Duncan, and John Shelton Reed. The festival follows a community-wide book-read and coincides with the major renovation and expansion of the Ashe County Public Library.
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Tomorrow’s R.O.A.D. for “Connections Underground Railroad Project.” Funds make possible historian-guided sessions of intensive study and leadership development for a diverse group of teenagers. |
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