AHC Grants Funded

AHC General Grants Funded February 2006

Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, Phoenix. OneBookAZ, $3,025. Statewide author events for the 2006 OneBookAZ selection An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg, including an interview on KAET’s "Books and Co." with ASU Professor Ron Carlson. Project Director: Holly Henley, 602/258-5053 X1.

Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, Phoenix. OneBookAZ for Kids. $3,025. Statewide dramatizations and author events, accompanied by an online toolkit, for Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath, the OneBookAZ for Kids selection for 2006. Project Director: Holly Henley, 602/258-5053 X1.

Arizona Women's Heritage Trail, Rio Verde. Planning and Development for the Arizona Women’s Heritage Trail, $6,025. Planning meetings for the development of a statewide Women’s Heritage Trail that will promote Arizona women’s history to state citizens and tourists. Project Director: Joan Anderson Meacham, 480/471-7797.

Colorado River Indian Tribes Education Department, Parker. Exploring Japanese American Internment Through Reality and Fiction, $2,290. Author presentations throughout the Parker Unified School District to accompany a panel and book discussions of Cynthia Kadohata’s Weedflower, the story of a Japanese American girl’s experience in the Poston internment camp during World War II. Project Director: Jay Craváth, 928/669-8831.

International Printing Museum, Carson, Ca. A Museum on Wheels: Ben Franklin’s Colonial Assembly, $4,025. Statewide school visits that explore the history of books and bookmaking, featuring a Ben Franklin interpreter and a working colonial printing shop with hands-on activities. Project Director: Mark Barbour, 714/529-1832.

Mesa Community College, Mesa. MCC International Film Festival, $3,025. The third annual festival, held in downtown Tempe in March 2006, features an opening reception and discussions with director Godfrey Reggio following the showing of each film in his Qatsi Trilogy. Project Director: Don Castro, 480/998-9046.

Northern Arizona University Center for Sustainable Environments, Flagstaff. Stories, Songs, and Oral Histories of Navajo-Churro Sheep, $3,000. Public lectures and performances demonstrating cross-cultural Navajo, Basque, and Latino sheepherding and weaving traditions to accompany the July 2006 national meeting of the Navajo-Churro Sheep Association. Project Director: Gary Nabhan, 928/523-6726.

Tumacacori National Historic Park, Tumacacori. Encounters: The People and History of the Pimeria Alta, $4,525. A teachers’ workshop, web material, and a public lecture series starting in fall 2006 on the history and cultures of the region that is now southern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. Project Director: Roy Simpson, 520/398-2341 X28.

Northern Arizona Book Festival, Flagstaff. Northern Arizona Book Festival 2006, $6,025. A series of author panel discussions at the April 2006 festival that explore contemporary literary issues from a humanities standpoint. Project Director: Rebecca Byrkit, 928/380-8682.

Phoenix College, Phoenix. Phoenix College Latin American Film Festival, $3,025. Four film screenings in March 2006, each followed by director and screenwriter discussions moderated by humanities scholars. Project Director: Trino Sandoval, 602/285-7416.

Phoenix Public Library Foundation, Phoenix. Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?, $2,414. Presentations and films in spring 2006 to accompany a photographic exhibit that celebrates Title IX by exploring the experiences of female athletes throughout history. Project Director: Rita Marko, 602/534-6618.

Tucson Presidio Trust for Historic Preservation, Tucson. Tucson Presidio History Fair, $1,525. A one-day festival in March 2006 with lectures and living history presentations and demonstrations highlighting the Spanish and Mexican heritage of Tucson’s Presidio, particularly as it relates to the city’s Rio Nuevo Project. Project Director: Gayle Hartmann, 520/325-6974.

Yavapai College Hassayampa Institute, Prescott. Community and Words: Community Through Literature, $4,525. The July 2006 Hassayampa Institute addresses the effect literature has on community and culture through lectures, readings, and discussions among nationally known writers, scholars, and the public. Project Director: Susan Lang, 928/778-4970.