Spring 2006 Project Grant Awards
Humanities Washington received twenty-four grant applications requesting a total of $127,487. The Board of Trustees awarded $46,650 to ten projects around the state. The ten grants awarded range from $2,500 to $8,000.

• The American Cycle Public Humanities Forums
  Intiman (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $3,950
  As part of their series of classic American stories, The American Cycle, Intiman will produce an adaptation of Richard Wright’s Native Son this fall. A series of discussions and public forums with writers and experts will draw out the play’s themes and challenge audiences to consider what is American.
  
  
• Bioethics Book Club Scholar Webcasts
  Women’s Bioethics Project (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  The Women’s Bioethics Project seeks to engage women in Washington in bioethical issues and policy debates.
  This grant will support three interviews with bioethics scholars in philosophy, medical humanities and theology,
  which will be added to an online resource for book groups.
  
  
• Camp Harmony at Puyallup, Washington: Understanding the Past
  Paul H. Karshner Museum (Puyallup)    GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  This exhibit at the Karshner museum will recreate barracks at Camp Harmony, a temporary facility used in the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans in World War II. Round-tables, lectures and discussions will engage community members and the museum will invite secondary students in the Puyallup school district to visit.
  
  
• Celilo Falls: Points of Contact
  Washington State Historical Society (Tacoma)    GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  A consortium of universities, public libraries and the Washington State Historical Society will lead a series of
  book discussions at regional libraries in the Columbia River Basin. The discussions will focus on the ancient
  history of Indians at Celilo, using the upcoming 50th anniversary of Celilo Falls’ inundation as a focal point.
  
  
• Danger: Books!
  Book-It Repertory Theatre (Seattle)   GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  The Book-It Repertory Theatre will present a series of readings from books that have been banned and challenged in the United States as part of its Book-It All Over arts and education program. Professional actors will read the most controversial sections from these books and then facilitate a discussion on the First Amendment.
  
  
• Essential Seattle
  Museum of History & Industry (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  The exhibit Essential Seattle will explore key events and people who made Seattle’s history from the point of first European contact in 1792 to the high-tech boom in the 1980s. In addition to the exhibit, MOHAI will host a lecture series and other family-oriented programs.
  
  
• Everyday Objects: Lessons from the Past Connecting to the Future
  Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center (Seattle)   GRANT AWARD: $8,000
  Everyday Objects is a poster series designed to engage students in the day-to-day lives of Holocaust survivors before, during, and after the Holocaust. The posters and accompanying teachers’ guides will be available to community groups across the state.
  
  
• Nidoto Nai Yai Yoni: Oral History Project
  Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community (Bainbridge Island)   GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Personal stories and photographs of elders who experienced the World War II Japanese internment will be collected, preserved and made available to the public using a kiosk display and other media at the new Japanese American Internment Memorial Visitor’s Center through collective efforts of trained interviewers, Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community members and professional videographers.
  
  
• Real Men Didn’t Need Directions: History Okanogan 2006
  Okanogan County Historical Society (Okanogan)    GRANT AWARD: $3,700
  This series of seven public lectures will be held on an 1811 historic site, and will each feature scholarly research and interpretation and the Native American context or experience of regional historic events in the Okanogan County area during the years 1821-60, including those of cultural contact, treaties, explorers and missionaries.
  
  
• These Walls Can Speak: Untold Stories from Three Historic Buildings
  Wing Luke Asian Museum (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  This exhibit at the Wing Luke Asian Museum uses three historic buildings in Seattle’s International District to explore the neighborhood’s rich immigrant and ethnic history. Visitors will understand the history of featured buildings, the communities they served, and the importance of community space for immigrant groups.
  
  

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