The Arts of Citizenship Program has announced the recipients of its annual round of faculty grants for public and community-based scholarly work in the arts, humanities and design.
The grants program fosters research, teaching and creative projects that contribute to public culture and encourage innovative teaching and research in collaboration with community partners.
The 2008 Arts of Citizenship Faculty Grant Awardees are:
• Angela Dillard, associate professor of Afro American and African Studies and associate professor in the Residential College, LSA, for The Black Church Project in collaboration with black churches in Ann Arbor and Detroit, the Westsiders — a public history organization in Detroit — and the Bentley Historical Library to develop and make available archival materials to the church congregations and the public;
• Sadashi Inuzuka, professor of art, School of Art & Design, for Many Ways of Seeing. Inuzuka and students will work with the Detroit Agency for the Blind and Visually Impaired to provide workshops in the ceramic arts for children from the metro Detroit area;
• Amy Stillman, associate professor of American culture, LSA, and associate professor of musicology, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, for Dialogues on Indigenous Performance Traditions, Cultural Engagement and Community Empowerment. Stillman will partner with the Rose Ensemble, a Minneapolis-based Chamber Music Society, and Kupa ‘a Kukahi Gathering, a native Hawaiian cultural and community center in Chicago, to foster a series of post-performance cross-cultural dialogues on the recovery, performance and recording of 19th century Hawaiian songs; and
• Michelle McClellan, research investigator, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and lecturer II in history, LSA, for History at Work: Remembering the New Deal in Michigan. McClellan is partnering with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office to offer a class in public history research in which students contribute to the historical research component of the state’s effort to reconstruct and revitalize the New Deal-era Waterloo Area Recreation Center. Faculty will present the outcomes of their projects in October at the Imagining America Conference in Los Angeles.
Housed at the Ginsberg Center, the program receives funding from the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice President for Research.
