Grants Awarded Fiscal Year 2002
Early Response Grants
Rhode Island Capitol Forum on America's Future
Global Rhode Island
$1000
The Capitol Forum is a year long civics education program that offers a unique opportunity for high school social studies teachers and their students to engage in discussion of our nation's future in the changing international environment.
Conference on the Archaeology of Qumran
Center for Old World Archaeology and Art
Brown University
$2000
Bringing together scholars from across the country and around the globe, this conference is the first international conference devoted entirely to the archaeology of Qumran. More than 50 years have passed since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the excavation of the adjacent site of Qumran. Though many conferences have been dedicated to the Dead Sea Scrolls, few have addressed scholarship on Qumran. Lectures at the conference address historical, anthropological, and theological issues regarding Qumran, in addition to the archeological ones.
Lectures and Presentation on Museum Display as Interpretation of Classical Sculpture
Dr. Mette Moltesen, Curator of Greek and Roman Sculpture
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Denmark
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
$960
Slide lectures about the history of collecting and the changing approaches to exhibiting ancient sculpture.
The Life of William Brown Project
Rhode Island Historical Society
$1,000
This research project prepares for the republication of the memoirs of William J. Brown, adding an introduction contextualizing the memoirs, editorial comments, and an index.
Conference on Israel and Palestine:
Working Toward Justice and Peace
Southern Rhode Island Islamic Society and its affiliate Muslim Heritage Council
$1200
Bringing together speakers from across the country and around the globe, two panel discussions supported by RICH are a part of this one-day conference that examines issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first panel analyzes the history of the conflict and the history of attempts at peace, and the other describes current voices and prospects for peace. The conference hopes to be an educational forum that will bring an understanding of these complex issues to the general public and provide an opportunity for public discussion.
The Spirit of Cambodia:
A Tribute
Providence College
$1,000
Exhibitions, public lectures, and performance are all a part of this unique series that looks at contemporary Cambodian art. This series brings together both the contemporary arts of Cambodia and that of the Cambodian diaspora, inspiring education, exploration, and reflection on the major themes of these works, how these artists deal with the history of conflict in Cambodia and the spirit of Cambodia's renewal.
Hemingway's Ghost:
A Literary Chautauqua
Betty Jean Steinshouer
Westerly Public Library
$1000
Scholar Betty Jean Steinshouer has toured RI libraries several times from her home base in Florida, bringing her popular Chautauqua characters to life. In this year's Halloween tour, Seinshouer literally changes hats as she carries on a conversation among Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings about Ernest Hemingway.
Rithy Pahn Film Festival
Cambodian Society of Rhode Island
$2000
This festival features films by Cambodia's celebrated film director, Rithy Pahn. His films chronicle life as it was before the rise of the Khmer Rouge and during the four-year holocaust that killed up to 1.7 million people. His films also examine life in the refugee camps and the breakdown of social mores in the early years of Cambodia's fragile reconstruction. Director Pahn attends the screenings and discusses his work with the audience.
Diversity and the Courts
Rhode Island Supreme Court
$750
Research, interviews, and writing culminate in an original one act play exploring the intersections between cultural diversity and the judicial system that will be performed first for the RI Judiciary during the Fall Judicial Conference, and then for various school and community groups. The play will be followed by facilitated discussion.
Small Press and Fine Printing Book Fair
John Russell Bartlett Society
$800
Books and other works on paper from an eclectic group of 20 small presses and book artists from all over New England and New York will be exhibited in Brown University's Alumnae Hall. Speaker Ann Kalmbach of the Women's Studio Workshop will lecture on "Trends and Threads: Publishing Artists' Books Since 1979 at The Women's Studio Workshop.
Independent Research Grants
Untitled Grant
Louis Cirillo
$2,000
Cirillo, a freelance writer and amateur historian, provided history, geography, biography, walking tours and projects to help Bristol third graders experience and appreciate the accomplishments of their community.
Untitled Grant
Rose Weaver
$2,000
Weaver, a noted Rhode Island singer and actress, investigates how menopause is looked at, if mothers talk about it with their daughters and family, and the cultural differences in the experience. She created her Menopause Mama, a solo performance about midlife changes in women, before, during and after menopause, from the humorous and poignant stories of women who have navigated "the change of life".
Untitled Grant
Edward and Linda Wood
$2,000
As a reporter for the Providence Journal, Edward Wood wrote about the plans to move the Providence railroad tracks. Later as head of the state Department of Transportation, he played a key role in the completion of the moving-of-the-rivers project. He and his wife, Linda, an oral historian with more than a quarter century of experience as a school media specialist, interviewed at least a dozen people instrumental in the project that helped change Providence into the bustling city it is today.
Untitled Grant
Gregory Ricci
$500
Ricci, who holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design with a major in Painting, canvassed the state's public murals. People from diverse ethnic groups' including Latin American, Portuguese-American, and African-American artists' have created murals in Rhode Island. Many of these large murals occupy highly visible public spaces around the state. Ricci identified, explored and studied local trompe l'oeil, a detailed style of painting that gives the illusion of photographic reality.
Humanities Grants
Connections:
The Deborah McCrea Memorial Lecture Series
William S. Hopkins Historical Society
$2,680
This five-part lecture series investigates the intellectual and artistic contributions of African-Americans throughout history.
Humanities Integrated
Perishable Theatre
$4,000
A scholar-in-residence program designed to enhance the humanities programming in the 2002-2003 season.
Immigrant Heritage Film Series
Progreso Latino in partnership with Slater Mill
$6,992
This series comprises Spanish-language films with panel discussions that focus on the immigrant experience in the United States and highlights the contributions of Latino immigrants in a labor and community context.
Intersections
International Gallery for Heritage and Culture
$11,524
A symposia series and exhibition spotlighting Mali's contemporary mudcloth. The eight-part symposia series will address mudcloth as an evolving tradition and explore critical approaches to cross-cultural representation in the 21st century.
URI Honors Colloquium:
Genetic Technology and Public Policy in the New Millennium
University of Rhode Island
$13,295.40
The colloquium will focus on the ethical, social and legal implications of the Human Genome Project through a series of lectures, performance, and exhibition.