Grants for Arts Projects I - Panel A
8/11/2021

Brent A Bjorkman
Director, Kentucky Folklife Program
Director, Kentucky Museum
Faculty Member
Department of Folk Studies & Anthropology
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY

Angelica Gorrio
Graphic Designer & Founder,
Marinera CT
Stamford, CT

Eric Griffis (Layperson)
Anthropologist & Archaeologist
East Point, GA

Pearl Omiya
Executive Director
East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community Center Inc.
West Covina, CA

Winoka Yepa
Senior Museum Education Manager
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts
Santa Fe, NM

Grants for Arts Projects I - Panel B
8/12/2021

Crystal C'Bearing
Deputy Director
Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Office
Riverton, WY

Joel Garcia
Co-Founder
Meztli Projects
Los Angeles, CA

Joseph Maurer
Humanities Teaching Fellow
Music Department
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Sally Peterson (Layperson)
Retired State Arts Agency Folklife Director
Chapel Hill, NC

Chandra Williams
Executive Director, Crossroads Cultural Arts Center
Clarksdale, MS

Grants for Arts Projects I - Panel C
8/13/2021

Jorge Arevalo Mateus
Professor, Department of Music
Hunter College, Assistant Professor
Department of Race and Ethnic Studies
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Brooklyn, NY

Patricia Ann Atkinson (Layperson)
Retired State Arts Agency Folklife Coordinator
Carson City, NV

Julián Antonio Carrillo
Ph.D. Candidate/Graduate Student
Anthropology Department
Indiana University Bloomington
San Francisco, CA

Meesoon Han
Executive Director
A-KEEP
Pike Road, AL

Sally A. Van de Water
Folklife Coordinator
Office of Arts & History
County of Middlesex, New Jersey
Highland Park, NJ

Grants for Arts Projects 2 - Panel A
12/14/2021

Crystal C'Bearing
Deputy Director
Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Office
Riverton, WY

Amber Hamilton
Executive Director
Memphis Music Initiative
Atlanta, GA

Sally Peterson PhD (Layperson)
Retired State Arts Agency Folklife Director
Chapel Hill, NC

Laura Shearing
Research Assistant to Professor Philip V. Bohlman
Department of Music
University of Chicago
Silver Spring, MD

Melissa Weber
Curator, Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz
Special Collections Division, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University
Adjunct Professor, College of Music & Media
Loyola University
New Orleans, LA

Grants for Arts Projects 2 - Panel B
12/16/2021

Ping-Ann Addo
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts at Boston
Dorchester, MA

Michelle Boss Barba (Layperson)
Community Volunteer
Beaverton, OR

Andy Kolovos
Associate Director and Archivist
Vermont Folklife Center
Essex Junction, VT

Eric Cesar Morales
Folk Art & Social Change Fellow
Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA

Lu Zhang
Founder
Institute for Expanded Research
Initiatives Director
United States Artists
Baltimore, MD