Project Grant Awarded before 2007

FALL 2006

• American Museum of Radio and Electricity
  Local History and Culture Radio Project (Bellingham)    GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  The American Museum of Radio and Electricity is partnering with local museums, performing arts groups and other cultural institutions to produce high quality humanities radio programming to be aired locally on KMRE-LP, an FM radio station, and worldwide on the Internet through their web stream and via downloadable podcasts.
  
  
• Bellevue Community College
  Bellevue Reads (Bellevue)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Bellevue Community College, King County Library System, Hugo House and Voices in Wartime will collaborate on programming surrounding the community reading of a novel about the Vietnam War. Discussions, lectures, arts programming and adult literacy outreach will provide diverse scholarly, artistic and experiential perspectives. A web-based anthology will document community stories of war and peace.
  
  
• Cape Disappointment State Park
  Celebrating the River: A Confluence of Cultures (Ilwaco)    GRANT AWARD: $3,600
  Celebrating the River seeks to interpret and highlight the people and cultures historically involved in fishing on the lower Columbia River. This grant will support events that look at both historical and current social and cultural change through photographs, cultural events, an art performance and lecture.
  
  
• Eastern Washington University Press / Get Lit!
  Writers in Residence (Spokane)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Writers in Residence visit five Spokane-area schools for weekly writing workshops with grades 3-12. These eight-month residencies reach low-income schools that have limited access to interactive humanities programming. Students benefit by learning to express themselves creatively, contributing to the ongoing conversation that is literature and the humanities.
  
  
• Lopez Writers' Guild
  Poets in the Schools (Lopez Island)   GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  Poets in the Schools will provide teacher trainings in poetry, and focus on writing, revising, and reading poems aloud with students in two San Juan County schools. Students will also explore a variety of humanities and poetic themes, and experience reading their poems in performance for the community.
  
  
• Northwest Folklife
  Northwest Folklife Documentary Film Festival - Crossing Borders (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  The first annual Northwest Folklife Documentary Film Festival, Crossing Borders, explores how social and political concepts of boundaries affect human interactions. Film screenings, discussions with filmmakers and interpretive essays will engage community members in conversations about how communities are constructed and how people negotiate a sense of identity.
  
  
• Port Townsend Library
  Port Townsend Reads: Mark Sprague: Two Books and a Movie (Port Townsend)
  GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Port Townsend Reads consists of an author event signing by Mark Sprague, book discussions at a variety of community sites, program on memoirs, a program on literary criticism, a horse trail ride, a domestic violence forum, a high school assembly with the author and a showing of the film based on the novel followed by a discussion.
  
  
• Powerful Schools
  Powerful Writers' Spring Project, 2007 (Seattle)   GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  In spring 2007 Powerful Schools will launch a program aimed at their youngest writers, grades kindergarten through second, with a series of personal narrative and family story studies. Students will learn to write from the details of their own lives, and through writing and sharing will foster new understandings of themselves and others.
  
  
• San Juan Community Theatre & Arts Center
  Pack of Lies Community Outreach (Friday Harbor)    GRANT AWARD: $1,900
  In conjunction with the San Juan Community Theatre's winter 2007 production of the play Pack of Lies, a fictionalized account of Peter and Helen Kroger, an American couple living in London who were arrested and convicted of spying for the Russians in 1961. The community will be invited to participate in a series of discussions that will build on the issues raised by the play as well as to read books that deal with similar issues.
  
  
• Seattle Children's Theatre
  Addy: An American Girl Story (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $2,000
  Seattle Children’s Theatre will offer 40 one-hour free-of-charge workshops and discussions in Puget Sound area public schools covering humanities topics in their production of Addy: An American Girl Story. The workshops will explore the historical context of the play, and issues related to slavery, self-esteem, community, responsibility and prejudice.
  
  
• Seattle Opera Association
  Experience Opera (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  Experience Opera targets high school students in eight counties and provides them with a broad overview of the opera art form through multi-media classroom presentations, recitals, tours of Seattle Opera facilities, and access to mainstage dress rehearsals. Teacher training workshops focus on how opera can be used to study the humanities disciplines of English, history and philosophy.
  
  
• Skagit County Historical Museum
  Harvesting the Light: Images of Contemporary Skagit Farm Life (La Conner)
  GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  The principal aim of the project is to tell the story of disappearing family farms through the voice of farmers and the lens of contemporary photographers. This objective will be achieved through a combination of exhibition images, narrative, activities, and community panel discussions and forums.
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• African-American Islam: Past, Present and Future
  Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Dr. Richard Brent Turner will lead an exploration of Islam and the African-American community that will challenge commonly held assumptions about faith, politics and community life. The program hopes to spark conversations about the rise in religious diversity and the new perspectives and values Islam brings to American and African-American life.
  
  
• Bellevue Reads!
  Bellevue Community College    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Community-based book groups, Bellevue Community College students, King County Library audiences and the general public will be invited to read Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and participate in book group
  discussions and other programs, including film screenings and lectures. Based on a successful collaboration
  begun in 2002, this project is co-sponsored by BCC and King County Library (KCLS).
  
  
• Experience Opera
  Seattle Opera Association    GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  This education outreach program integrates the study of opera into humanities classrooms in urban, suburban and rural schools. Experience Opera will introduce opera into classrooms as a tool to teach art, world culture, language, philosophy, and literature.
  
  
• Get Lit! Authors Tour of Rural Schools/Writers in the Schools Day
  Eastern Washington University (Cheney)    GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  Professional writers will tour rural, remote areas with high rates of poverty and limited opportunity to hold humanities programs and facilitate interactive presentations for students that include age-appropriate discussions, writing exercises and readings.
  
  
• Louis Slotin Lessons: Exploring the Intersection of Science & the Arts
  Double Duck Productions (Seattle)   GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  This project combines readings from dramatic texts and a panel discussion of arts and science professionals scheduled for the 60th anniversary of nuclear physicist Louis Slotin's tragically fatal accident. The panel includesLouis Slotin Sonata author Paul Mullin, and Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making
  of the Atomic Bomb. Town Hall Seattle will host the event and The Empty Space Theatre will serve as co-sponsor.
  
  
• Los Santos Reyes
  City of Redmond    GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  Los Santos Reyes is one event in the month-long celebration of RedmondLights, a celebration of the diversity of traditions, cultures and faiths. Los Santos Reyes features a play written by members of the Hispanic community and presented by children in the fourth through sixth grades. A discussion will follow.
  
  
• The Midway School: Oral History Project
  Gig Harbor Peninsula Historical Society   GRANT AWARD: $3,000
  The Midway School is being restored as an authentic pioneer schoolhouse, incorporating interpretive signage
  and hands-on exhibits throughout the one-room school. This grant funds a short documentary film featuring oral histories of former students that will be displayed in the restored schoolhouse.
  
  
• Mother Foss: A Film Portrait of Thea Foss
  Working Waterfront Museum (Tacoma)   GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Mother Foss is a twelve-minute documentary short about Thea Foss, the nineteenth-century Norwegian
  immigrant and entrepreneur. This film is part of a larger exhibition of new materials and archival records
  documenting her role in Tacoma maritime history.
  
  
• Poets In the Schools
  Lopez Writers' Guild (Lopez Island)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  This project will provide hands-on experience writing poems, revising, reading poems aloud and exploring a variety of poetic themes to students in two San Juan County schools, the Lopez Island School and Spring Street International School. It will also offer opportunities for community poetry readings, and support the Skagit River Poetry Festival.
  
  
• Timberland Reads Together
  Timberland Regional Library (Olympia)    GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  Community members within the Library District's five Southwestern Washington counties will read, reflect, and discuss The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
  
  
• True/False West Film Festival
  Whatcom Film Association (Bellingham)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  3 Days. 30 Films. 30 Filmmakers. The 2006 True/False West Film Festival, a collaboration with the True/False Festival in Columbia, Missouri, seeks to provide the city, county, region and state populations with a concentrated three-day festival of the best documentaries in the world.
  
  
• What's In A Name?
  KPBX Spokane Public Radio    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  KPBX will produce five 8-10 minute radio features on disappearing rural towns in Eastern Washington. Interviews with townspeople and historians will document the history of these towns, what they were like in their heyday,
  and how those that have not disappeared are trying to revitalize their economies. Photographs and commentary
  will be on display at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture.
  

La Conner School District - La Conner: $5,000.00
Skagit River Poetry Project
This project unites all Skagit County school districts, as well as selected school districts in Whatcom and San Juan counties, in an effort to push poetry off the page and into life. Students and teachers are provided with an opportunity to celebrate language from many voices and attend poetry readings.

Maryhill Museum of Art - Goldendale: $5,000.00
People, Places and Perceptions: A Look at Contemporary Northwest Latino Art
Funding was requested to create an exhibition and related programs featuring Latino art and culture in the Pacific Northwest. Programs include gallery discussions, poetry readings, multicultural dance presentations, family activities and a Day of the Dead celebration.

MediaRites - Portland, Oregon: $4,000.00
Kanaka Village: Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest
Kanaka Village will be a fifteen-minute radio documentary featuring interviews with scholars from Washington and British Columbia. This program will provide a creative and historically accurate document of Hawaiians who were brought to the Pacific Northwest by the fur trade, lived in what is now Washington Sate, and were involved in the British/American conflict.

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture - Spokane: $5,000.00
The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
Grant will support adult lectures and educational outreach programs to accompany the exhibition The Mapmaker's Eye. This multi-disciplinary project delves into geography, science, art, economics and cultural history. Public programs will expand on concurrent regional Lewis and Clark programming and provide a more international perspective on Northwest exploration.

Okanogan County Historical Society - Okanogan: $4,987.00
Fort Okanogan History Tour
Fort Okanogan History Tour is a series of six public presentations by scholars, experts and Native Americans focusing on the history of Fort Okanogan. Each event will have two speakers to present both the European American story and the Native American experience of cultural contact and the fur trade.

Powerful Schools - Seattle: $5,000.00
Personal Narrative Study Series
This eight-week series, serving 61 teachers and 1,500 teachers at six elementary schools, will provide students with the motivation and tools necessary to explore their heritage, express their thoughts on paper and bring their family histories to life.

Seattle Children's Theater - Seattle: $2,000.00
Nothing is the Same
Seattle Children's Theater will receive funding to support forty one-hour workshops and discussions to accompany the play Nothing is the Same. These programs will be offered in Puget Sound area schools and will address issues related to friendship, labeling, discrimination and the historical context of the play.

Tasveer - Seattle: $5,000.00
Second Independent South Asian Film Festival
The festival will feature fifteen programs, including film screenings, workshops, panel discussions and cultural programming around the theme of "Celebrating Second Generation South Asia." Filmmakers and speakers will be invited to facilitate post-film discussions and participate in forums. Wenatchee Valley

Museum and Cultural Center - Wenatchee: $5,000.00
River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
River of Memory will be an exhibit comprised of historic photographs, historical and cultural narrative, poetry, music, art and natural science. The exhibit will allow visitors an opportunity to experience the entire Columbia River, from source to mouth - an experience never before provided by an historical or cultural institution.

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