They are all subjects of this year’s Heritage Special Projects and Cultural Education project awards.
4Culture is pleased to announce thirty-five applications were selected for funding as part of the 2010 Heritage Cultural Education and Special Projects programs, totaling $174,998 in awards for King County-based projects. In Heritage’s largest applicant pool to-date, this year’s recipients include six curricula based projects and twenty-nine special projects focusing on the identification, documentation, exhibition and interpretation of the county’s diverse heritage.
Successful Cultural Education applications included a proposal from Jack Straw Productions to implement an immigration education program at a local High School in Tukwila, which will help English Language Learners explore and record stories of their family’s immigration experiences. Kent resident and local historian, Karen Bouton was awarded funding for the Saar Pioneer Cemetery Living History Project. This project will offer a series of living history performances within Kent’s Saar Pioneer Cemetery in July 2010, which will depict six individuals buried there. Another project will focus on the interpretation and online publication of FBI dossiers compiled on civil rights movement activists in Seattle from 1941 to the 1960s.
2010 Heritage Cultural Education awards:
| Applicant | Title | Award |
| Cascade Land Conservancy | Duwamish Riverbend Hill Education Project | $5,000 |
| Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project | Densho Teacher Workshop | $5,200 |
| Jack Straw Productions | Expanding the Fabric: Stories of New Immigrants | $6,000 |
| Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association | Vashon Island Heritage: Teaching Materials for Middle School | $6,500 |
| White River Valley Museum | Renovation of Museum Kits & Educational Outreach to the Community | $4,500 |
| Wing Luke Asian Museum | Day of Remembrance | $5,000 |
2010 Heritage Special Projects awards:
| Applicant | Title | Award |
| Martha Adams | Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity (1961-1968) | $2,000 |
| Karen Bouton | Saar Pioneer Cemetery Living History Project | $840 |
| Gregory Brotherton | Smoke, Sand and Rubber | $5,000 |
| Burke Museum Association | Waterlines Map | $6,500 |
| Eduardo Calderon | Portraits and Recorded Interviews of Artists in King County | $3,000 |
| Cascade Land Conservancy | Interpretive Maps & Guide for Duwamish Riverbend Hill | $6,190 |
| Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project | Non-Japanese American Oral Histories about the WWII Incarceration | $5,040 |
| Eastside Heritage Center | Heritage Connections | $3,000 |
| Environmental Coalition of South Seattle for DRCC | Green-Duwamish River Culture and Heritage Map reprint | $6,950 |
| Friends of Gas Works Park | King Countys Industrial Past and Present: Society for Industrial Archeology Conference 2011 | $5,000 |
| Trevor Griffey | Seattle FBI History Project | $5,000 |
| Historic Seattle | Washington Hall Stories | $7,250 |
| History Ink | Adding sound files to HistoryLink.org content: Phase Two | $4,500 |
| Literacy Fund/NIE | Women’s History: A Centennial of Local Impact | $6,250 |
| Jerry Mader | Saving the Soil–Organic Farmers in the Snoqualmie Valley | $5,000 |
| Market Foundation | History and Significance of Victor Steinbrueck Park | $2,940 |
| Museum of Flight | B-17 75th Anniversary Exhibit | $3,000 |
| Museum of History & Industry | Celluloid Seattle: A City at the Movies | $7,500 |
| Nordic Heritage Museum | Somebody’s Grandma: an exhibition of identity and the Norwegian-American experience | $5,000 |
| Pioneer Square Community Association | Trail to Treasure | $7,000 |
| SCAN Community Media | The Japanese Garden Celebrates 50 Years | $6,400 |
| Scott Squire | Last Generation/First Generation | $6,000 |
| University of Washington | Preservation Preparedness: Mapping and Developing a Typology of Historic Unreinforced Masonry Buildings in Seattle | $8,000 |
| Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association | A Photographers Legacy: Exhibiting the Works of O.S. Van Olinda | $5,200 |
| Volunteers for Outdoor Washington | Iron Goat Trail Brochure | $1,738 |
| Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center | Stories Among Us: King County Connections to the Holocaust | $5,000 |
| White River Valley Museum | Invigorating an Interest in Archive Collections | $4,500 |
| Wing Luke Asian Museum | The Asian Pacific American Urban Indian Exhibition Project (UIE) | $5,000 |
| Woodinville Heritage Society | Life in Woodinville – The 1920s and Beyond | $4,000 |
© 2010, Saar Pioneer Cemetery, courtesy of Karen Bouton
1 comment
Kate Pretty says:
Jul 15, 2010
Hello, good article.