AHC Grants Funded
AHC General Grants Funded November 2006
ASU Institute for Humanities Research, Tempe. Place of Refuge: Humanities Perspective on the Refugee Experience in Arizona. $3,000. A panel discussion series in 2006/2007 to explore historical and contemporary representations of the refugee experience through history, literature, and the arts. Project Director: Brian Gratton, 480/965-4300.
ASU School of Art, Tempe. Surrealism and the American West Conference, $3,000. A free public conference held at ASU in October 2006 to discuss the presence and influence of surrealism artists in Arizona, the Southwest, and the greater American West. Project Director: Claudia Mesch, 480/965-8864.
ASU West Department of Language, Cultures, and History, Phoenix. The African Americans in El Mirage Oral History Project, $6,000. An oral history project resulting in a film screening in spring 2007 that reflects the experiences of the African American residents of El Mirage from the 1940s through the 1960s. Project Director: Akua Duku Anokye, 602/543-6020.
ASU West Department of Language, Cultures, and History, Phoenix. Mexican Americans of Litchfield Park II: Tres Rios Region Camp Images, $6,000. An oral history project resulting in a photo exhibit and community event in spring 2007 that reflects the experiences of Mexican American agricultural migrant workers. Project Director: Gloria H. Cuadraz, 602/543-3018.
Gnosis Ltd., Cave Creek. Pedro E. Guerrero, Portrait of an Image Maker, $3,000. The post-production phase of a documentary film on Mexican American photographer Guerrero, the chief visual interpreter for the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and Alexander Calder. Project Director: Suzanne Johnson, 480/488-2691.
Grand Canyon River Guides, Flagstaff. The Colorado River Runners Oral History Project, $3,000. Four new oral histories on female Colorado river runners in a male-dominated industry, to be published in the Boatman’s Quarterly Review in the spring of 2007. Project Director: Lynn Hamilton, 928/773-1075.
John Wesley Powell Museum, Page. Powell Museum Oral History Project 2006-2007, Phase II, $3,000. Phase II of an oral history project resulting in the publication of a book in June 2007 about the first fifty years of Page, Arizona. Project Director: Kimberly Keisling, 928/645-9496.
La Pilita Museum, Tucson. From the Presidio to Barrio Viejo: A Walk Through Time, Place, and Story, $6,000. Exhibits, teacher workshops, and the publication of a guidebook in February 2007 that links sites to the folklore and history of the Barrio Viejo, Tucson’s oldest neighborhood. Project Director: Joan Daniels, 520/882-7454.
Oracle Historical Society, Oracle. Oral Histories Along the Border, $3,000. A lecture series beginning in January 2007 to facilitate a subsequent oral history project highlighting the role of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in shaping southern Arizona. Project Director: Emily Duwel, 520/896-9609.
Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture, Prescott. Telling Stories Workshops, $3,990. Workshops in November 2006 by Navajo author and artist Baje Whitethorne that accompany his Telling Stories exhibit and explore its relationship to literature, anthropology, and art criticism. Project Director: Adam Mikos, 928/445-1230.
U of A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies, Tucson. New American Destinies: Stories of Lesbian & Gay Migration, $2,345. A film-and-discussion event in March 2007 exploring the lesbian/gay migrant experience through a film set in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Project Director: Eithne Luibheid, 520/626-0029.
