Folk & Traditional Arts: FY 2020 Grants Panelists

Art Works - Panel A Jun 18, 2019

Jamie Burnett (Layperson) Consultant Sight Line Public Affairs LLC Concord, NH Luann Poitra Communication Specialist United Tribes Technical College Bismarck, ND Thomas G Richardson Folklorist & Traditional Arts Consultant Santa Fe, NM Preston L Singletary Artist Seattle, WA Cynthia Woo Director Pao Arts Center Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Inc. Jamaica Plain, MA

Art Works - Panel B Jun 20, 2019

Lydia Clemmons Director The Clemmons Family Farm Charlotte, VT Virginia Siegel Arkansas Folk Arts Coordinator University of Arkansas Main Campus Fayetteville, AR Jessabet Vivas Capo Program Advisor and Director Folk Arts and Creative Industries Program Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena San Juan, PR Marilyn M White (Layperson) Arts Patron Member, Board of Directors City Lore, Inc. Hillside, NJ Carol Zippert (Layperson) Co-Publisher Greene County Democrat Eutaw, AL

Art Works II - Panel A Dec 10, 2019

Jens Lund Retired Folklorist Olympia, WA Emily F Miller Artistic Director Augusta Heritage Center Davis & Elkins College Valley Bend, WV Jami Powell Associate Curator of Native American Art Lecturer Hood Museum of Art Native American Studies Dartmouth College Quechee, VT Dan Sheehy (Layperson) Retired Falls Church, VA Paul F Wells Independent Scholar/Researcher, Presenter, and Musician Founding Director and Director Emeritus Center for Poplar Music Middle Tennessee State University Kennebunk, ME

Art Works II - Panel B Dec 12, 2019

Lisa Beckley-Roberts Interim Chair and Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology Director African Drum and Dance Ensemble Department of Music Jackson State University Jackson, MS Jennifer Himel Development & Marketing Coordinator KUYI 88.1 FM Hopi Radio Polacca, AZ Mary Keller (Layperson) Associate Lecturer Philosophy and Religious Studies University of Wyoming Cody, WY Terence Liu Consultant Kapaa, HI

NEA National Heritage Fellowships Panel (Rounds 1 & 2) January 14 & 16, 2020

Charles Carrillo Author and Artist Santa Fe, NM Cynthia Chavez-Lamar Assistant Director for Collections Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Alexandria, VA Susan Feller President and Chief Executive Officer Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums Park Hill, OK Steven W Hatcher Director of Folk & Traditional Arts Idaho Commission on the Arts Boise, ID Emily Hilliard West Virginia State Folklorist West Virginia Humanities Council, Inc. Charleston, WV Heather Hodges Executive Director Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Johns Island, SC Kevin O'Shea, Esq. (Layperson) Attorney Sulloway & Hollis, PLLC Madbury, NH Michael White Traditional jazz musician/bandleader Professor, Spanish and African American Music Department of Languages Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA Deborah A Wong Professor Department of Music University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA