CONSULTATION GRANT AWARDS
Division of Public Programs
Announced: November 1999

CALIFORNIA

Los Angeles, KLCS-TV/Los Angeles Unified School District ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Severo Perez, (213) 625-6958
PROJECT TITLE: Mexican Independence from Spain
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars to develop a two-hour documentary film on the Conditions and events leading to Mexico's independence from Spain, 1750-1824.

San Francisco, Film Arts Foundation ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Katrina C. Browne, (510) 848-6504
PROJECT TITLE: Traces of the Trade
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars on a film documentary about slaveholding in New England from 1769 to 1820, focusing on a prominent Rhode Island slave-trading family.

San Francisco, KQED-TV ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Sally M. Eisele, (650) 856-9655
PROJECT TITLE: Word of Mouth
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars to develop a 13-hour public radio series on new words entering everyday American speech.

Sausalito, Bay Area Discovery Museum ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Bonnie L. Pitman, (415) 289-7261
PROJECT TITLE: My Place by the Bay
DESCRIPTION: Evaluation, site visits and consultation with scholars to develop an interpretive framework for a historic site and children's museum.

COLORADO

Boulder, Boulder Community Broadcast Association ~ $9,950
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Samuel A. Fuqua, (303) 449-4885
PROJECT TITLE: Water in the West: Thirst for Meaning
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars for a documentary radio series on the influence of water on the human experience in the Western United States.

CONNECTICUT

Mashantucket, Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center ~ $9,866
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jack Campisi,(860) 396-6864
PROJECT TITLE: Inventing the Indian: Native American Images in Advertising
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars in preparation for an exhibition on the portrayal of Native Americans in advertising.

FLORIDA

Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County Historical Museum ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Iva J. Maddox, (561) 462-1795
PROJECT TITLE: Reflections of Florida's Fishing and Boating Heritage
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars and museum professionals to develop an exhibition exploring Florida's changing fishing and boating activities from the earliest Native American settlements to the present.

Miami Beach, Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Annette B. Fromm,(305) 672-5044
PROJECT TITLE: The Peoples that Nobody Wanted
DESCRIPTION: Consultation to create an interpretive master plan for a traveling exhibition, public programs, and curricular materials about 20th-century U.S. policy on admission of refugees.

IOWA

Fort Dodge, Iowa Central Community College ~ $9,996
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Mary Sula Linney, (515) 576-0099
PROJECT TITLE: A Community's Return to the River Project
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars in literature, art, music, history, and ecology to develop a plan for an exhibition or interactive multimedia highlighting the Des Moines River as a sense of place.

LOUISIANA

New Orleans, Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation ~ $7,625
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Brian Cohen, (212) 348-7740
PROJECT TITLE: Regulating Morality in Turn-of-the-Century America
DDESCRIPTION: Consultation with advising scholars for a one-hour film documentary on America's vice-control experiment, from 1870 to 1917, with legal red light districts.

MARYLAND

Owings Mills, Maryland Public Broadcasting Foundation ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Daniel Alpert, (773) 878-8980
PROJECT TITLE: A History of God
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars to develop a four-hour television documentary series on the history of the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston, Bostonian Society ~ $9,846
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Grey Osterud, (617) 720-1713
PROJECT TITLE: Taking Boston's History to its Public through Interpretive Programming
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars and museum professionals to develop a new interpretive plan that addresses the public presentation of Boston's history to Bostonians.

Lenox, Ventfort Hall Association, Inc. ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Carole Owens, (413) 298-3952
PROJECT TITLE: Symposium on the Gilded Age
DESCRIPTION: A symposium that will bring together scholars and museum consultants to identify key interpretive themes for a planned Museum of the Gilded Age.

Lowell, Children's Museum Lowell ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Nancy C. Stice, (978) 459-9899
PROJECT TITLE: Common Threads: A Cultural Gallery
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars and museum professionals on interpretive strategies for an interactive exhibit examining six cultures in Lowell, Massachusetts.

MICHIGAN

Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Institute of Science ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Michael D. Stafford, (248) 645-3223
PROJECT TITLE: Development and implementation of Great Lakes Native American educational programs
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars and representatives of local Native American groups as part of a general reinterpretation of the museum's Native American holdings.

MINNESOTA

Duluth, St. Louis County Historical Society ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Evelyn M. Tanner, (218) 733-7588
PROJECT TITLE: American Indian Exhibit
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with museum and content experts in preparation for a reinstallation of the society's collection of Native American material.

Minneapolis, Givens Foundation for African American Literature ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Deidre Hamlar, (612) 831-2555
PROJECT TITLE: Say It Loud: American Culture and the Black Arts Movement, 1960-1975
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with an art historian and an advisory committee to develop an exhibition on the ideas expressed in artworks created by the Black Arts Movement (1960-1975).

MISSISSIPPI

Jackson, Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Marilynn Jones, (601) 961-4724
PROJECT TITLE: Manship House Museum Kitchen Planning and Servant Life Interpretation
DESCRIPTION: Consultation for a comprehensive interpretation, a revised general tour, and an interpretive plan for a historic house interpreting 19-century Southern middle-class life.

NEW MEXICO

Albuquerque, University of New Mexico ~ $9,920
PROJECT DIRECTOR: David K. Dunaway, (505) 345-0130
PROJECT TITLE: ACROSS THE TRACKS: The Route 66 Story
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with advising scholars on four one-hour radio documentary programs on the development and demise of Route 66 as it relates to the growth of commerce, culture, travel, and other industries in America.

NEW YORK

Buffalo, Western New York Public Broadcasting Association ~ $9,979
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Christi Collier, (716) 845-7003
PROJECT TITLE: The Pan-American Exposition, 1901-2001
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars for a one-hour television program on the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.

New York, Moving Image ~ $9,972 PROJECT DIRECTOR: Calvin L. Skaggs, (212) 807-0796
PROJECT TITLE: The Art of Marriage: Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark
DESCRIPTION: Consultation on a 60-minute documentary film on the creative and intellectual partnership of Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark.

Nyack, Hudson Valley Children's Museum ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Egbert, (914) 358-2314
PROJECT TITLE: Global Caravan
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars and museum professionals to define the themes and interpretive strategies for "Global Caravan," an exhibition examining stories of migration.

Owego, Tioga County Historical Society ~ $6,427
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Joann K. Lindstrom Llewellyn, (607) 687-2460
PROJECT TITLE: New York State's Route 17 Exhibit
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with museum and content experts for an exhibition on the social and cultural changes produced by the building of Route 17 in southern New York.

Southampton, Parrish Art Museum ~ $8,622
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Alicia G. Longwell, (516) 283-2118
PROJECT TITLE: Framing an Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars to plan for the reinstallation and reinterpretation of the museum's collection of American art.

TEXAS

San Antonio, University of Texas, San Antonio ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Guy Bailey, (210) 458-4330
PROJECT TITLE: Honky Tonks: Social History of Rural Music
DESCRIPTION: Consultation between radio producers and scholars on a radio documentary series on the social history of rural American music in the South between the end of World War I and the Korean War.

Snyder, Scurry County Museum ~ $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Charlene Akers, (915) 573-6107
PROJECT TITLE: Changes to Challenge: Reviewing, Evaluating, and Refocusing Exhibits and Programs at Scurry County Museum
DESCRIPTION: Consultation for the reinstallation of a permanent exhibition interpreting the history of the High Plains.

WEST VIRGINIA

Dunmore, Pocahontas Communication Coop ~ $6,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Gibbs Kinderman, (304) 799-6004
PROJECT TITLE: The Last Forest
DESCRIPTION: Consultation for a multiple format project exploring the history, economics, mythology, and future of the Appalachian hardwood forest.