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HUMAN/TIeS ‘, i-o _ Winter 1995 • Volume 17/ Number 1 Congress MayAboush the National Endowment for the Humanities 44 Editor's Note: Since federal regula¬ Reauthorization. For federal - - tions prohibit CCH from using this agencies like NEH, NEA, and newsletter to advocate specific legisla¬ IMS to continue to exist, Con¬ The question is tive action, the following report is gress must pass authorizing meant only to inform readers about legislation every five years. This whether the federal current and pending actions in legislation is separate from the Congress that may affect CCH. In appropriation bills that deter¬ government has a December, the Council mailed an mine the level of funding for advocacy letter containing additional these agencies. Currently, the A role to play in information to newsletter recipients. authorizing legislation for NEH, NEA and IMS has expired and sustaining the s this newsletter goes to new legislation will be consid¬ ■: press, the 104th Congress ered in this session of Congress. cultural life of the Sit S: is considering measures Reauthorization hearings began ©slffiS . • that will abolish the National in the Senate at the end of nation. Endowment for the Humanities January. Early reports indicate (NEH) or significantly reduce its that "everything is on the table" -H- budget. NEH provides the Califor¬ and that major changes will be iill nia Council for the Humanities considered. In the House, a - ' ' -m (CCH) with nearly eighty percent reauthorization bill has been tion programs, such documentary , of its support. Cuts to NEH could assigned to a subcommittee films as Ken Bum's Civil War, and mean the elimination of CCH. chaired by Randy "Duke" research grants to humanities Cunningham, Republican from scholars—have received broad At Least Three Hurdles San Diego. Representative Frank bipartisan support in Congress. e Continued funding for NEH— Riggs, Republican from Eureka, NEH's National Council on the and for the National Endowment also serves on this committee. Humanities includes both Republi¬ for the Arts (NEA) and the Institute can and Democrat appointees; the it this issue for Museum Services (IMS), which Appropriations. If NEH is not CCH board has five members who are authorized in a single piece of "zeroed out" in the rescission were appointed by Governor legislation—faces at least three hearings and if it is reauthorized Wilson. Every U.S. president from major hurdles in the coming weeks by Congress, the next hurdle for Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton has Humanities At and months: its continued existence will be the spoken in favor of maintaining Home.page 2 appropriations process, which NEH. And fourteen years ago, a Council member Mas Rescission. Some members of the will determine the amount of commission appointed by Presi¬ Masumoto advocates new Congress have called for deep funding NEH receives. NEH's dent Reagan to consider the making the humanities part cuts in the current 1995 budget. current budget is $177 million, or elimination of both NEH and NEA of local community life. The effort is to nullify parts or all of about seventy cents per U.S. concluded that "the strength of the budget passed by the previous citizen. Should NEH survive to America's arts and humanities is Grants Congress. Theoretically, all appro¬ this point, opponents are expected essential to the well-being of the Awarded.page 3 priated but unspent dollars for to demand deep cuts in its bud¬ nation" and that "our federal The Council awards NEH could be rescinded. Repre¬ get. Appropriations hearings for government bears a responsibility $205,822 in major grants sentative Ralph Regula, Republican the fiscal year 1996 budget will for encouraging and protecting the to 14 public humanities of Ohio and chair of the interior begin later in the spring. arts and the humanities." projects. But the Contract with America, subcommittee with appropriations responsibility for NEH, began Past Support the House majority's blueprint for Molheread hearings related to rescission In the past, NEH and its programs legislative action, calls for a $531 Update.page 8 million reduction in funds for the during the last week of January. A and affiliates—including the state A report on the Motheread arts and humanities over the next second round of hearings is sched¬ humanities councils, brittle book Training Institute held five years, which translates into a uled for sometime in February. and historical artifacts preserva- recently in Los Angeles. thirty percent cut to the NEH's current annual budget of $177 New Ceuntil million in each of the next five Members.page 9 years. More recently conservative Four new members will “Faces of Destiny” Exhibit columnists Charles Krauthhammer join the Council in March. T and George Will, as well as a number of U.S. Representatives CCH Alumni and Senators, have urged the total Profile.page 10 his photograph of Ghost Bull and Kills Enemy was taken elimination of NEH. And in a Former CCH Chair Walter by Frank A. Rinehart in Omaha, Nebraska circa 1898. It January 3 interview on C-SPAN, Capps reflects on his time is one of the photographs in the CERA-sponsored "Faces House Speaker Gringrich said on the Council and on his of Destiny" exhibit now travel¬ NEH was "proposing changes that recent run for Congress. ing in California. are destructive of American The exhibit features images civilization" and promised to try Become a friend of the from an extraordinary 1898 Humanities.page 11 to zero its appropriations. Indian Congress that drew five hundred Native American The Fundamental leaders and representatives of Question thirty-six tribes to Omaha for an Ultimately, what is at issue is one of educational exchange of ideas the fundamental questions of our and demonstrations of different The California Council for republic—what is the proper role of crafts and life styles. the Humanities is a state- government? Regarding NEH, the For additional information based affiliate of the question is whether the federal about this exhibit, please see the National Endowment for government has a role to play in exhibit listings of the Humani¬ the Humanities. The sustaining the cultural life of the ties Calendar on pages six and Humanities Network is nation. We hope citizens with seven of this newsletter. published quarterly and opinions about this question will mailed to anyone who write their representatives. requests it from the San Francisco office. At Humanities Home by Mas Masumoto 1994 — a year of voter revolution, a Liberal and conservative voices need to be distrust of politicians, a call for change. Where do we go from here? We go heard, urban and rural perspectives need to home. 1995 will be a year of angry voices and be conveyed, our histories need to be angry people. Where and how do the I humanities fit? They belong at home. shared. All of our stories need to be told. come from a farming back¬ ground. We're notoriously ■ .. .—"j pragmatic, base much of our thinking on common sense, and concede to change only gradually. good. Deliberation in community tual missionaries who insist on Moreover, we make decisions at publications, at neighborhood telling us how to think instead of home, at the local level. libraries and schools or on local learning with us about how we all I work with ordinary people in public television and radio shows think. my vineyards and peach orchards. Mas Masumoto is a farmer and writer and can and often does lead to action. We need balance. Liberal and We all care about everyday con¬ a CCH member from Fresno. His We need to respond to the realities conservative voices need to be forthcoming book, Epitaph for a Peach cerns close to home—family, that begin at home. heard, urban and rural perspec¬ (HarperCollins), will be published in June. education, the work ethic, indi¬ When we reduce the distance tives need to be conveyed, our vidual freedom. Social inequity and between people and problems, the histories need to be shared. All of lost hope are not abstract issues; we The humanities—ranging from faces are no longer anonymous, our stories need to be told. Some are confronted by them firsthand. lectures to films to exhibitions— and communities can respond with will have the means to tell their But I do worry about a lost provoke thought and encourage long-term good will. I've witnessed story, others may need seed money opportunity: the need for reflection. reflection. That's a necessary this literally in my fields. When we to create public-private partnerships. In our daily race to make a living ingredient for conversation, stop categorizing ourselves as Public funds need to be allocated— and raise our families, we seem to informed decisions and thoughtful either farmers or farm workers, we not for social engineering but to have lost the time to question and action. Lively humanities pro¬ begin talking to each other differ¬ create incentives to seek solutions think. We embrace quick political grams at the local level— a discus¬ ently. When others stop labeling through education. We all deserve fixes and allow a few outspoken sion of the rugged individual, a me as "just a farmer" and begin to to hear each other's story. voices to speak for us. We accept debate over multiculturalism, a think of the Central Valley as home In the local community—from less instead of more discussion and probing examination about the less to millions and a vital part of the farmlands and rural towns to presentation of diverse ideas. Yet as fortunate—foster ideas and chal¬ California, we join in a dialogue the suburbs and neighborhoods of politics and the media frequently lenge us to respond fairly and and can contribute to responsible urban California—we find many of become mediums for entertainment intelligently. The humanities solutions. the solutions are not political. The rather than substantive delibera¬ empower all of us with knowledge. But the humanities need to work answers involve caring about basic tion, real issues are left at home; Humanities do their best work at better, especially at the local level. human relationships and how we they are left up to the common the local level, where it counts the We need more and different treat one another as neighbors. The person, and home is where they most. Academic "feel good" debate forums to exchange ideas. All too humanities are perfectly suited to must be resolved. about our problems does little often I've been audience to intellec¬ help us along this journey. II” “Searching for San Diego, Holds Photo Days We are poor passing facts four neighborhoods involved with Mexican police at the warned by that to give "Searching for San Diego." Caliente race track, each figure in the photograph If you want to participate in the 1909. The photograph was his living name. "Searching for San Diego, II" T donated by San Diego — Robert Lowell project, you can help by locating resident Alicia Valdez. photographs available to be Her grandfather, he photographs surrounding copied that reflect the history of Manuel Serrano, was these words are fragments of the Barona Reservation, Hillcrest, chief of police and is San Diego's history. Thanks Little Italy, and San Ysidro. pictured here in the to "Searching for San Diego, II," a Please call 619/232-4020 for more bottom row, fourth Council-conducted project that information. from the right. builds on the successful 1993 "Searching for San Diego" project, as well as to some generous indi¬ viduals, these photos will become part of the permanent archives at the San Diego Historical Society. The photos were gathered at "Photo Days" in three neighbor¬ hoods, where neighbors were asked to bring in their old family photos to be copied by the San Diego Historical Society. The "Photo Days" are part of a larger effort to explore the history of San Diego. The photos them¬ selves will be used to construct exhibits about each neighborhood's history. The exhibits will circu¬ late in the early summer and will be accompanied by a play that is based on oral histories from the Working on the American Voyager fishing Andrew Asaro, circa 1924, mending his Photos courtesy of the San Diego boat. Donated by Katie Asaro. nets. Donated by Katie Asaro. Historical Society. PUBLIC PROGRAMS Shades of L.A.: A Search for Visual Ethnic and Cultural History in the Middle Eastern, Armenian and Jewish Communities Sponsor: Photo Friends of the L.A. Public Library Project Director: Carolyn Cozo Cole Amount of Award: $12,500 in outright funds and $ 16,736 in matching funds if $33,472 is raised in outside gifts Begun in 1990, "Shades of L.A.," a widely acclaimed social history project, locates and copies the visual history of ethnic communities in Los Angeles. This grant supports the exten¬ sion of the project to the Middle Eastern, Arme¬ nian and Jewish communities, seeking to add nearly 2,000 new images to a public library photographic collection that is a major resource for scholars and members of the public. Project components also include four scholar-led workshops to train volunteers about the histo¬ ries and cultures of each community; eight photo days; a community history program to discuss humanities issues raised by the photo¬ graphs, and an exhibit of photographs drawn from the newly collected images. Project activi¬ ties are slated to begin in January 1995, with the photo exhibit opening in February 1996. The Der Hagopian family in an 1892 photograph taken in Husenik, Armenia. The 8-year-old boy Hagop (right) came to the U.S. in 1904. Forty of his descendants now live in Los Angeles. The "Slwdes of L.A." project will collect photos like this one for its visual ethnic and cultural history archive. Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection. A.C.T. Perspectives The Fine Art of California Indian Sponsor: American Conservatory Theater, Basketry San Francisco Sponsor: The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Project Director: Bronislav Jakoljevic Project Director: Janice T. Driesbach Amount of Award: $ 12,000 in outright funds Amount of Award: $12,500 in outright funds and This grant supports four two-hour public $13,300 in matching funds if symposia that will explore the spiritual, ethical $26,600 is raised in outside gifts and cultural issues raised by plays being per¬ This grant supports the development of an formed in American Conservatory Theater's exhibit featuring 60 masterworks by 12 master 1994-95 mainstage series. "Crises of Faith: Native American basketweavers of the 19th and Death and Dying in the New Millennium" will early 20th centuries. The works will be drawn use Tony Kushner's two-part Pulitzer Prize¬ from a variety of weaving traditions in Califor¬ winning play Angels in America as a departure nia and will explore the principles of Native point for discussion of such issues as the rela¬ American aesthetics. The exhibition will be tionship between death, dying and spirituality supplemented by demonstrations of basketry and a culture in which traditional secular and art by members of the California Indian religious belief systems seem to be collapsing. Basketweavers Association, an illustrated "Hecuba and History" will explore the moral, catalog with articles by prominent scholars in historical and political threads of Euripedes' the field, and a day-long symposium focusing classic text in light of recent world events. on such topics as the origins of Native Califor¬ "Everyman's Theater: Postwar British Play¬ nian basketry traditions, the diversity of tradi¬ A discussion of issues raised by Tony Kushner's play wrights" will investigate historical, social and tions that exist within the state, and how tradi¬ cultural trends in postwar Great Britain. And "Angels in America" is one of four public symposia in the tional communities incorporate new ideas and "Is Shakespeare Still Our Contemporary?" will "A.C.T. Perspectives" project. Here the Angel (Lise technologies into their basketry. Plans also call Breneau) appears to the prescient Prior Walter (Garret focus on Othello to discuss broader issues of for the development of complementary exhibits Dillahunt) in the A.C.T. production of "Angels in America Shakespeare's continuing legacy. These pro¬ and programs at other museums. The exhibit — Part P. Millennium Approaches." Photo courtesy of grams begin in January 1995 and conclude at will open in Sacramento in July 1996 and will the American Conservatory Theater. the end of May. travel to three other museums later in the fall. PLANNING GRANTS MARITIME MUSEUM OF MONTEREY. $750. AFRICANA STUDIES DEPARTMENT, SAN DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY To develop a proposal for a series of public DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY and the AFRICAN OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS. $902. To support a lectures and discussions about the Mexican era AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, SAN chautauqua performance by Dr. Judy Nolte of Monterey's history (1822-1846). DIEGO. $1,430. To support "African American Temple portraying Mary Austin (1868-1934), History in San Diego," a two-part lecture/ one of the earliest writers of the Southwest. CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDA¬ workshop series focusing on African American TION, FRESNO. $750. To develop a proposal local history in the San Diego area. SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART. $1,500. To for "Nisei Baseball: Diamonds in the Rough,"a support "American Masters 1900-1940, Part II," thirty-minute documentary film about the Nisei UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF a three-part lecture series on American artists to baseball organization and the Central Valley CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA. $1,500. For accompany a traveling exhibit of works from the communities in which the league developed. "Dear Robert: I'll See You at the Crossroads," Whitney Museum that is being mounted at the two public programs about the life of American San Jose Museum of Art. blues musician Robert Johnson. MEDIA T“1 SCRIPT World of Dreams Sponsor: Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco Project Director: Eric Breitbart Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific Interna¬ tional Exposition and San Diego's 1915-1916 Panama-California Exposition celebrated the achievements of California and the American West and asserted a nineteenth-century opti¬ mism at the very moment that the world was being altered by the outbreak of World War I. This script project for a one-hour documentary video explores the political, economic and social history of the two California fairs that would mark the end of an era. The project will pay particular attention to three themes: the fairs' impact on architecture and city planning; how the fairs presented information as serious exhibits and as entertainment, laying the groundwork for modern theme parks; and the fairs' role in the popularization of ideas about A view of the Avenue of Progress at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The exposition is the subject of the science, technology and social evolution. " World of Dreams" documentary film project. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. For the Protection of Themselves and of Posterity: California's Eugenic Sterilization Program, Sean the Elder Howard Thurman Film Project T 909-1952 Sponsor: Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, NY Sponsor: Bethel AME Church, Jamaica Plains, MA Sponsor: Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco Project Director: Ralph Arlyck Project Director: Arleigh Prelow Project Director: Ken Jacobson Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds In 1969, project director Ralph Arlyck made a This script project for a one-hour documentary In 1909, the California legislature passed a law short film about a four-year-old boy living in film explores the life and work of Dr. Howard which ushered in a long-term sterilization Haight Ashbury. The film won the National Thurman (1900-1981), a pre-eminent African- program that affected more than 10,000 male Student Film Festival and was shown on PBS. American theologian, philosopher and educa¬ and female patients in state institutions. Rely¬ This script project for a one-hour film revisits tor. The project will examine Thurman's intel¬ ing on scholarship in history, American studies, Sean, the subject of that earlier film and widens lectual and spiritual growth, focusing on his sociology and literature, this script for a one- the inquiry to his extended family. It examines vision of community, which led him to co¬ hour documentary video will explore the social, Sean's life within the context of the dramatic found the Church for the Fellowship of All political,' legal, scientific and ethical issues social, political and historical changes of the Peoples in San Francisco, the nation's first involved in the California sterilization program, past 25 years and explores links among 1930s interracial and interfaith church. The project as well as the program's relationship to the radicalism, 1950s McCarthyism, the 1960s will also explore the development of Thurman's eugenics movement of the 1930s and 1940s and counter-culture and today's so-called Genera¬ non-violent "love ethic" and its influence on Dr. to issues raised by contemporary scientific tion X. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights discoveries in genetics. movement. Hard Traveling Sponsor: The Catticus Corporation, Berkeley Project Director: Richard Wormser Amount of Award: $9,86 1 in outright funds Between 1870 and 1940, hoboes made up a floating workforce that cut timber, built rail¬ roads, harvested crops and worked in the mines throughout the American West. This script for a two-part television series will tell the story of hoboes and their contribution to the economic development of the country, focusing on such issues as the importance of the railroad to the hobo life, attempts by militant unions to orga¬ nize the hoboes, and the development of the hobo as an almost mythic figure in popular culture. The California sequences of the pro¬ gram will include an in-depth examination of how hoboes supplied much of California's farm labor between 1870-1920, before being displaced by migrant workers from Mexico. The lives and economic contributions of hoboes is the focus of the television documentary series "Hard Traveling." Photo courtesy of Richard Wormser. u The U.S.-Mexican War Sponsor: KERA-TV, Dallas, TX Project Director: Sylvia Komatsu Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds and $ 15,000 in matching funds if $30,000 is raised in outside gifts As a result of the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), Mexico lost almost half its territory, and the U.S. gained more than half a million square miles of land, including California and the present states of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and parts of Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming, effectively reshaping the cultural and political landscape of the continent. This script for a two-hour docu¬ mentary film will mark the 150th anniversary of that war by examining its causes and legacies from both the Mexican and the American perspectives. The project includes a unique collaboration of scholars from both nations which seeks to illuminate the full range of historical, social and cultural forces that influ¬ enced this struggle for land, identity and power. "The U.S.-Mexican War" film documentary project examines the history and consequences of the 1846-1848 war from PRODUCTION both the American and the Mexican perspectives. Photo courtesy of Special Collections Division, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Arlington, Texas. Broken Color Remember Tomorrow: Ten African Americans and American Sponsor: Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco Americans Confront the Year Jews: Coalition and Conflict Project Director: J Clements 2000 Sponsor: Snitow/Kaufman Productions, Berkeley Amount of Award: $7,500 in matching funds if Sponsor: Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco Project Directors: Deborah Kaufman, Bari Scott, $15,000 is raised in outside gifts Project Director: Michael Katz Alan Snitow Through the found writing of Ann Conger, this Amount of Award: $5,000 in matching funds if Amount of Award: $25,000 in matching funds if 16mm film will document the life of Conger, a $ 10,000 is raised in outside gifts $50,000 is raised in outside gifts professional journalist who after marrying and Incorporating interviews, archival footage, This one-hour documentary video will investi¬ having children struggled with schizophrenia. popular music, excerpts from utopian novels, gate the historical relationship between African Through this examination of Conger's life and and historical voice-overs ranging back to the Americans and American Jews, focusing on writing, the project seeks to illuminate the 1890s, this one-hour television documentary will such issues as the diversity of views and experi¬ cultural and historical context of the American examine how a diverse group of Americans ences within each community, a shared secular woman during the 1950s and 1960s and exam¬ view the approach of the next century and how culture, the relationships between black and ine how the creative process and mental illness their visions of the future fit in the long tradition Jewish leaders during the Civil Rights era, and coexist. The project will also explore philo¬ of American millenarianism, which includes the causes of the recent breakdown in cultural sophical questions surrounding the definitions both the utopian and the apocalyptic. and political relationships. of madness. Ralph Bunche: An American Island of Roses Odyssey Sponsor: International Documentary Association, Sponsor: ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Los Angeles Spartanburg, SC Project Director: Gregori Viens Project Director: William Greaves Amount of Award: $9,550 in outright funds and Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds and $8,875 in matching funds if $13,000 in matching funds if $17,150 is raised in outside gifts $26,000 is raised in outside gifts Following their exile from Spain during the Ralph Bunche (1903-1971), the first African Inquisition of 1492, a number of Sephardic Jews American to receive a Ph.D. in political science settled on the island of Rhodes in the Aegean from Harvard University, rose to prominence at Sea and developed a unique Spanish-speaking mid-century as United Nations Under Secre¬ community that lasted until the Holocaust tary-General, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in reached the island in the 1940s. Focusing on the 1950 for his efforts to foster decolonization and memories of Rebecca Amato Levy, who avoided his championing of human rights and world deportation to Auschwitz and now lives in Los peace. Against the background of American Angeles, this one-hour documentary film history and race relations, this two-hour docu¬ examines the cultural and individual histories of mentary film production will examine Bunche's this community and explores its linguistic, life and the social, political and intellectual religious, and historical links to other ethnic and forces that shaped his career. The film will also Sephardic Jewish communities throughout the examine Bunche's experiences at Thomas world. Jefferson High in Los Angeles and at UCLA, where his belief in the importance of education, democracy, racial equality, and individual agency was nurtured and challenged. U.N. representative and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ralph Bunche is shown here during an August, 1960 visit to the Republic of the Congo, just after the U.N. Security Council sent peacekeepers to the country to restore order. Photo courtesy of the United Nations. f e The public humanities programs listed here Feb. 1 "No Laughing Matter: Political - received funding support from the California Apr. 2 Cartoonists on the Environment" Council for the Humanities. Please note that is a CERA-sponsored SITES dates and times should be confirmed with local exhibit of more than 150 images by sponsors. These listing are often provided to the cartoonists from 30 countries Council well before final arrangements are made. exploring how politically inspired art shapes awareness and concern for the natural environment. EXHIBITS Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County, 1333 Butte House Road, Yuba City. 916/741-7141. Mar. 5 - The CERA-sponsored exhibit, From the “No Laughing Matter" exhibit. Artwork May 29 "Woven Vessels" moves to the courtesy of SITES. Victor Valley Museum, 11873 Apple Valley Rd., Apple Valley. 619/240-2111. Mar. 18 - "Four Hands Weaving: The The CERA-sponsored exhibit, "No Apr. 26 Basketry of San Diego's Indig¬ 8-30 Laughing Matter: Political Car¬ enous Peoples'' is an exhibit toonists on the Environment" exploring the ongoing basket moves to the Mt. San Jacinto making traditions of the four College Gallery, 1499 North State indigenous cultures represented in Street, San Jacinto. 909/654-8011, San Diego county. The exhibit will ext. 1522. Prom the Sonoma County Museum's "Gold be accompanied by lectures, Mountain" exhibit. Photo from the Sherman Boivin workshops and a symposium. Collection. Boehm Gallery at Palomar Col¬ lege, 1140 West Mission Drive, San Marcos. For more information, Through "Gold Mountain: Legacy of the please call 619/744-1150, ext. 2425. Feb. 10 "African American History in San Feb. 12 Chinese in Sonoma County" is an Diego" is a series of presentations exhibit of images and artifacts and discussions about local Afri¬ about the history of Sonoma can American history projects. County's Chinese community. At The day's first event begins at 1 the Sonoma County Museum, 425 p.m., at the Council Chambers, Seventh Street, Santa Rosa. Please Aztec Center, San Diego State call 707/579-1500 for more infor¬ University. The second event mation. begins at 6 p.m., at the Mingei International Folk Art Museum in Through "Woven Vessels" is a CERA- San Diego. For more information Feb. 25 sponsored exhibit exploring the call 619/594-6531. multicultural traditions of basketmaking and the evolution of the basket into non-traditional Feb. 11 "African Spirit in the New World contemporary forms. At Corona Black Cultures" is a day-long Public Library Heritage Room, 650 public conference held in conjunc¬ S. Main, Corona. Call 909/736- tion with the "Dear Robert, I'll See 2386 for more information. You at the Crossroads" exhibition about American blues musician Robert Johnson. 10 a.m. At Through "Faces of Destiny: Photographs Corwin East, University Center, Mar. 18 from the 1898 Indian Congress in UC Santa Barbara. For more Omaha" is a CERA-sponsored information contact 805/893-2951. exhibit of images from an extraor¬ dinary gathering of Native Ameri¬ cans at the end of the last century. "Strange Danger" by Lisa D'Agostino is part of the At the Museum of History and CERA-sponsored “Woven Vessels" exhibit from Art, 225 S. Euclid Ave., Ontario. ExhibitsUSA that is traveling to CERA member 909/983-3198. museums in the state. s Feb. 15 The San Jose Museum of Art's Apr. 23 "The Reign in Spain" is a lecture "American Masters, 1900-1940" and demonstration performance project presents a lecture by Sheila by the San Francisco Consort Braufman on the art and life of about the music of the Golden Age Max Weber. The lecture series of Spain. Juan Pedro Gaffney will complements a touring exhibition lead the discussion. 3 p.m. At Noe of American paintings from the Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez at Whitney Museum collection. 6:30 23rd Street, San Francisco. For p.m. At the Fairmont Hotel in San more information, please call 415/ Jose. Please call 408/294-2787 for 282-2317. more information. Apr. 25 "Thomas Jefferson in Susanville" Feb. 15 "Learning Jam" is a lecture/ features scholar Clay Jenkinson in demonstration about the evolution a chautauqua program about the of jazz forms, performance and nation's third president. At 7 p.m. instrumentation by music profes¬ Lassen Community College Leroy V. Quintana. sor Marian Liebowitz. It is one in Lecture Hall in Susanville. For a series of lectures on world music. more information, please contact Noon. San Diego City College Mar. 7 "Artists Breaking Tradition: Janet Corey, The Lassen County Theatre, 1313 Twelfth Avenue. Perspective as it Informs Cultural Historical Society, P.O. Box 321, 619/230-2400. References in Visual and Literary Susanville, CA 96130. Arts' is a lecture by Leroy V. Feb. A preview of Gregori Viens' Quintana, Department of Litera¬ "Island of Roses" will be part of ture, San Diego Mesa College. The the two-day VITAS Film Festival. program is part of the "Border At the Melnitz Auditorium on the Voices" project's "New Voices in UCLA campus, 405 Hilgard. For the Humanities" lecture series. 7 festival program information, p.m. At Scripps Ranch High please contact Amy Hale or School, 10410 Treena St., San Diego. Shannon Thorton at 310/825-4242. 619/621-9020 for information. Mar. 8 The San Jose Museum of Art's "American Masters, 1900-1940" project presents a lecture by land¬ scape painter Richard Mayhew on the art and life of his friend Jacob Lawrence. The lecture series complements a touring exhibition of American paintings from the Whitney Museum collection. 6:30 p.m. At the Fairmont Hotel in San Clay Jenkinson as Thomas Jefferson. Jose. Please call 408/294-2787 for more information. Apr. 30 "The Reign in Spain," a lecture Poets Gary Snyder, Ai, Juan Felipe and demonstration performance Herrera, and other nationally by the San Francisco Consort acclaimed writers and humanities about the music of the Golden Age Sarah Notrica, a matriarch of the scholars will participate in read¬ of Spain, takes place at the Crocker Sephardic community on the Island ings, scholar-led panel discussions Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacra¬ of Rhodes, shown here in a circa and workshops during the second mento at 3 p.m. Dr. Ben Frankel 1920 photo courtesy of Rebecca annual Border Voices will also present a short slide Amato Levy. The unique history of Multicultural Poetry Fair" to be lecture that will include rare slides this community is the subject of held in San Diego's Balboa Park on from the British Museum. For Gregori Viens' documentary film March 11 and 12. Events begin at 9 more information, please call 916/ "Island of Roses." a.m. Saturday, March 11, at Balboa 264-5423. Park's Organ Pavilion. For more Feb. 26. Maya Deren's "Divine Horsemen: information, contact J.F. Webb at The Living Gods of Haiti" is the 619/293-2239. subject of a film/discussion program held in conjunction with Mar. 15 "Around the World through Brass" the "Dear Robert, I'll See You at is a lecture/demonstration by the Crossroads" exhibition about composer and musicologist John American blues musician Robert Lorge about contemporary brass Johnson. 2 p.m. At Corwin instrumentation. It is one in a series Pavilion, University Center, UC of lectures on world music. Noon. Santa Barbara. For more informa¬ San Diego City College Theatre, 1313 tion contact 805/893-2951. Twelfth Avenue. Please call 619/ 230-2400 for more information. Mar. 4 The "Shades of L.A." project will hold a Photo Day for the Armenian Apr. 19 The San Jose Museum of Art's community. Community members "American Masters, 1900-1940" are invited to bring family photo¬ project presents a lecture by Dr. graphs for discussion, interpreta¬ Wanda Korn on the art and life of tion and selection for photogra¬ Charles Demuth. The lecture series phers to copy for the L.A. Public complements a touring exhibition of Library's archives. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. American paintings from the Meeting Rooms A & B, Central Whitney Museum collection. 6:30 Collection of the Whitney Museum of Library, 630 E. Fifth Street. For p.m. At the Fairmont Hotel in San American Art. Photo courtesy of the San Jose information, call 213/228-7403. Jose. Please call 408/294-2787 for Museum of Art. From "American Masters, more information. 1900-1940" exhibit. s e S e n Motheread Holds Training Institute in Los Angeles As Council Motheread Coordinator be allowed to explore their Khisna Griffin reports in the following imaginations, and adults must article, the Los Angeles-area program encourage such exploration. continues to expand, attracting new By Thursday evening, when group leaders and participants. For the Institute concluded, thirteen related articles on new foundation and parent-education social workers donor support for Motheread, please had been prepared to lead their see pages ten and eleven. For more own Motheread classes. Each information about the Council's Los group leader will conduct three Angeles-area Motheread program, Motheread classes within a year, contact Khisna Griffin at 213/623- allowing the program to expand i 5993. into four new neighborhoods and serve as many as four hundred n the early morning drizzle of additional families. Monday, November 7, thirteen parent-education social workers from as far away as Pomona gathered at UCLA's Sunset Recre¬ ation Center to take part in the Motheread Training Institute sponsored by the California Mary Helen Barajas and Lilian Payan, both from Good Beginnings Family Center, take Council for the Humanities. advantage of DEAR time (Drop Everything and Read) during the Motheread training Motheread is a family reading sessions. Good Beginnings works with parents and residents of the Pico Union area of Los program that serves parents of Angeles. young children. Parents meet in small groups to read selected plans, mock Motheread sessions children's books and discuss and discussions of dozens of universal themes such as inde¬ books. pendence, sharing and uncondi¬ On Thursday, Caldecott tional love. Parents soon realize Medal winner Gerald that there is much more to a McDermott shared his morning children's book than colors and with the group. Mr. a "nice" story. Parents take this McDermott, author of Anansi the knowledge home and incorpo¬ Spider, Arrow to the Sun and rate it into their discussions Raven, explained how myths with their children about books and folktales play an important and stories. Families involved role in his creativity. Mytholo¬ in Motheread have noticed gies and stories are part of what changes—grades improve, makes us human, and humans behavior improves and the of all ages relate to myths in a entire family reads a lot more. very visceral way, McDermott The training began with a said. Children may not have session led by Nancye Gaj, any knowledge of the culture president and founder of that the story comes from, but Motheread. Training continued they will know the power of with Dorothy (Dotty) Altman myth. They also understand Reginald Zachery of the Head Start Family Service Center and Lynn Wright-Kernodle, and Cathy Jones leading partici¬ who holds the power in the Motheread coordinator for the North Carolina Humanities Council, take a break to pants through three full days of myth. McDermott stressed that examine some of the more than 80 books now in the Motheread curriculum. Selected titles from the curriculum have been translated into Spanish by CCH Associate Director Susan curriculum immersion, lesson it is important for children to Gordon. Photos by Suzanne Huddleson. Is “The Flapper Story” Part of the Council’s Film & Speaker Program L auren Lazin's thirty-minute feminist' group...It may interest documentary won both a us to take a look at another CINE Golden Eagle award generation who also traded and an Academy Award for their legacy of social responsi¬ Student Documentary for its bility for celebrated self-inter¬ thoughtful examination of the est, and who in turn perhaps provocative "New Woman" of accommodated themselves to a America's Roaring Twenties. The limited notion of what 'libera¬ Flapper Story traces the historical tion' was all about." developments that gave shape to The Flapper Story is one of the flapper ideal, explores the thirty-six films in the CCH Film ways in which the flapper rebelled & Speaker program. Through against prevailing social mores, this program, CCH awards a and also considers the contradic¬ small grant to a non-profit tions and limitations underlying organization to rent and screen the flapper's image of indepen¬ one of the films, followed by a dence. scholar-led discussion of the In The Flapper Story, film¬ humanities issues and themes maker Lauren Lazin provides a explored in the film. revised view of this part of For additional information women's history. "Like the about the Council's Film & flappers of the 1920s, the Speaker minigrant program, young women of my generation please contact Stan Yogi at 415/ have been dubbed a 'post¬ 391-1474. e 9 Next Council Meeting Date and Time Proposal-Writing Workshops Offered The California Council for the Humanities' quarterly meeting will be Workshops are scheduled during February for people interested in held in Riverside at the Mission Inn, 3649 Seventh Street. The meeting submitting grant proposals at the Council's April 1 deadline. begins at 9 a.m. on Thursday, March 9 and adjourns at noon on Satur¬ day, March 11. In San Francisco: For Media Project proposals Wednesday February 8 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Internships Available For Public Program proposals Thursday February 9 10 a.m. to noon The Council has a number of internship opportunities available for undergraduate and graduate students in humanities disciplines. Oppor¬ tunities exist in each of the Council's offices. Interested students should In Los Angeles: contact Ralph Lewin in the San Diego office (619/232-4020), Susan Gor¬ Tuesday February 14 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday February 15 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. don in the Los Angeles office (213/623-5993) or Alden Mudge in the San Francisco office (415/391-1474). In San Diego: Thursday February 16 10 a.m. to noon Internet Update The workshops are free, but advance registration is required. Please Brief request for information or for grant guidelines, newsletters or call the nearest Council office (415/391-1474 in San Francisco, 213/623- other publications can be sent to the Council via e-mail at the following 5993 in Los Angeles, and 619/232-4020 in San Diego) to register and address: [email protected] confirm dates and locations. Please also request and read the updated Please note that the Council cannot accept grant proposals or respond Guide to the Grant Program before attending the workshop. to detailed queries via e-mail. We are still working to make grant guide¬ lines, calendars and other materials available via anonymous ftp or through a gopher space. Look for additional information in upcoming issues of the newsletter. New Council Members Announced At its December meeting the Council selected four new members from nominations submitted during a public nominations process. The new members begin their three-year terms in March of 1995. Penelope V. Flores is associate professor of secondary education at San Gaines Post, J] is professor of history at Claremont McKenna College, Francisco State University, where she specializes in both multicultural where he specializes in modern German history and the history of education and mathematics education. She is diplomacy. Post served as dean of the faculty also founder and chairman of the Philippine and as senior vice president at Claremont American Humanities Council, education McKenna from 1983-88. Before coming to editor for the Manila Bulletin, USA, a weekly Claremont, Post was associate professor of Philippine American newspaper with nation¬ history at the University of Texas in Austin. wide distribution, and editor of the journal of While there, he served on many public hu¬ the Association for Filipino Psychology, a semi¬ manities committees and commissions, includ¬ annual professional publication. She is a ing the Texas Committee for the Humanities, former member of the board of the Illinois which is that state's counterpart to CCH. In Humanities Council. Flores worked for many 1980, Post was the principal author of The years as a teacher education expert for Humanities in American Life, the report of the UNESCO, with field assignments in several national Commission on the Humanities. He Asian countries. She was also evaluation is also author of Dilemmas of Appeasement: coordinator for the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, British Deterrence and Defense, 1934-1937 and The Civil-Military Fabric of which field tested and produced a high school mathematics textbook Weimar Foreign Policy. Post holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell series. Flores is the author of Mano Po: Selected Essays on Philippine Society University and a master's degree and Ph.D. in history from Stanford and Culture. She holds a bachelor of science degree from the Philippine University. He served in the U.S. Army (artillery) from 1959-1961 and Normal University, a master of science degree from the University of was a Rhodes scholar from 1961-1963. Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. J. Jorge Klor de Alva is the Class of 1940 Professor of comparative ethnic Santiago Rodriguez is the director of multicultural programs at Apple studies and anthropology at University of California at Berkeley. He was Computer in Cupertino, California. He was formerly the university formerly professor of anthropology at affirmative action officer at Stanford Univer¬ Princeton University and associate professor of sity. He has also served as director of inter¬ anthropology and Latin American studies and governmental relations. Office of the Com¬ director of the institute for Mesoamerican monwealth of Puerto Rico, in Washington studies at the State University of New York at D.C. and was assistant director of the national Albany. Klor de Alva is a member of the Hispanic employment program at the U.S. Smithsonian Institution Council, the Commis¬ Civil Service Commission. In 1993 and 1994, sion on the Future of the Smithsonian, and the Rodriguez was a keynote speaker in a Coun¬ American Anthropology Association's Com¬ cil-sponsored series of programs on cultural mission on Minority Issues and Long Range diversity that was presented throughout Planning Commission. He is also one of four California by the Smithsonian Institution. organizers of a multi-year research, conference, Rodriguez has been active in numerous civil and publication project charting the patterns of rights and Hispanic organizations at both the interethnic contacts and cultural change in the Americas since 1492. With local and national levels. He is one of the co-founders of the national Gary Nash and Louis Wilson, Klor de Alva is co-author of the Houghton Image organization and is a past member of the Ivy League Affirmative Mifflin Social Studies Series K-8 textbooks and is currently working on Action Group. He currently serves on the board of the Teatro the high school world history text. His other forthcoming or in-progress Campesino; Inroads, the consumer advisory council for Pacific Bell; and publications include The Norton Anthology of Indigenous Mesoamerican the board of regents for Santa Clara University. Literature, American Identities: Traditional, Contested, and Imagined, and Truth or Hope?: Cultural Politics, and Nostalgia at the Century's End. Klor de Alva holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a juris doctor from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in the history of consciousness from the University of California at Santa Cruz. n n e Two Los Angeles-Area Foundations Award Grants to Motheread In early November, both the S. Mark Taper Foundation and the Times Mirror Foundation awarded grants to support the Council's Motheread program. The S. Mark Taper Foundation awarded $10,000 to help the Currently Reading: "Everything Council expand the Motheread program to more than one hundred I can get my hands on by Vaclav additional families during 1995. The Times Mirror Foundation awarded Havel. The one I'm working on right $2,500, also to help the Council expand the Motheread program through¬ now is The Power of the Powerless; one out the Los Angeles area. Having recently trained thirteen additional that I like a lot is Summer Meditations. Then for strength and comfort I have Motheread group leaders, the Council expects to be able to bring the been reading Dag Hammarskjold's Motheread family reading program to as many as four hundred addi¬ Markings." tional families during the coming year. Most Influential Books: "I really have to say the Bible. That was the early influence. The book that Hearst Foundation Grant Will Support CERA meant the most to me during my The Hearst Foundation has awarded the Council $25,000 to support a college years was Plato's Republic. It California Exhibition Resources Alliance (CERA) project to circulate six opened me to a larger world. Prior to that time, the religious texts had traveling exhibitions to member-museums throughout the state during worked for me in a primarily 1995 and 1996. CERA is a Council program providing administrative individual and personal way, but I support and a means of sharing exhibits among a statewide network of got a greater sense of the possibility small museums. of a collective well-being from reading Plato." The Hearst Foundation award makes it possible for the six exhibits— along with scholar-based interpretive programs for the adult public and Defining the Humanities: "I for school students—to travel to a total of twenty-six venues in twelve always recall working on the com¬ communities, stretching from Eureka to El Centro, where they will reach mission that approved the report an estimated total audience of 104,000. Walter Capps edited by Merrill Peterson—'Hu¬ manities and the American People.' The six traveling exhibits include: "Faces of Destiny—Photographs N. Scott Momaday was there, taking from the 1898 Indian Congress in Omaha;" "Woven Vessels," an exhibit of Professor of Religious Studies and note of everything but not comment¬ traditional and contemporary baskets; "No Laughing Matter—Political Chair of the Department of Religious ing much, and at a certain point of Cartoonists on the Environment;" "Gum San: Land of the Golden Moun¬ frustration I asked him if he had a Studies, University of California at definition of the humanities. He tain," an exhibit of photographs and artifacts documenting the story of Santa Barbara said, 'The humanities are nothing the Chinese in the American West from the Gold Rush to the early 20th more nor less than humans express¬ century; "Earth Angels," an exhibit of photographs by Nancy Buirski Member of the Council: 1981 -1987 ing their humanity.' After a pause, about the lives of migrant farmworker children; and "Between Two he added, 'In some symbolic form.' Council Chair: 1983 -1986 Worlds: People of the Border," an exhibit documenting the human dimen¬ When I unpack that, I think it comes pretty close. I think the humanities sions of crossing the border as experienced by Mexicans and Mexican- Personal Information: are tied directly to the enunciation Americans. of the human spirit. And that links For information about the dates and locations of these exhibits, please ■ Bom: May 5,1934 into religion and to Plato, to sacred see the Humanities Calendar in this and upcoming issues of the Humani¬ Omaha, Nebraska texts and to other things through ties Network newsletter. which human beings express their ■ Family: Married to Lois Capps; humanity." three grown children Memories of the Council: ■ Candidate for Congress from NEH Summer Institutes for Elementary and "The times when the entire group Santa Barbara: November 1994. Secondary Educators and Summer Seminars for came together behind an idea that tended to unite people. The clearest College Teachers Education: example of that was when Magdalen The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is offering more than Coughlin asked. Where is the twenty summer institute programs for elementary and secondary educa¬ ■ B.S. in Humanities, Portland common good? We are doing all of State University, 1958. these other things, but have we tors and nearly fifty summer seminars for college teachers. The institutes forgotten about the common good?' and the seminars cover a wide range of topics and disciplines and are ■ S.T.M. (master's degree in sacred There were many instances like offered at various locations throughout the nation during the summer of theology), Yale University that—where somebody would say 1995. Divinity School, 1961. something that really articulated All those teaching in an American elementary, middle or high school— what the group seemed to be groping ■ M.A. in Religious Studies, Yale for. The fact that it came out of whether public, private, or church affiliated—are eligible to apply for University, 1963. citizen participation gave me the admissions to summer institutes. Librarians and school administrators assurance that this was democracy in may also be eligible to apply for some institutes. Seminar programs are ■ Ph.D. in Religion and Western action. I will always look back on intended to serve those whose primary duties involve teaching under¬ Culture, Yale University, 1965. that as being one of the most inspir¬ ing chapters in my life." graduates, but others who are qualified to do the work of the seminar and First Teaching Position: contribute to it (such as independent scholars and scholars employed by ■ Assistant in Instruction, Department Words of Advice: "As a nation, museums, libraries, historical societies, and like organizations) are also we can get sidetracked on issues that eligible and encouraged to apply. of Religion, Yale University, are very consuming but don't give us 1963-64. the ability to keep up with what is The application deadline for most institutes is March 15,1995. The actually happening, with the way in application deadline for summer seminars is March 1,1995. Applications " When I was running for office, I was which the civilization is being should be sent directly to institute coordinators and seminar directors formed. Every day, every week, attentive to bumper stickers. The one I rather than to NEH. For a complete listing of the summer institutes and/ every month things are happening saw over and over again was about that shape our collective life. The or summer seminars, please contact the National Endowment for the random acts of kindness and senseless Council needs to be attentive to those Humanities, Division of Education Programs, Room 302,1100 Pennsylva¬ acts of beauty. But what people fear the dynamics and needs to give expres¬ nia Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., or call 202/606-8377. sion to or at least understand where most is random violence. When we get the society is. The Council ought to to a point where randomness is the be both a leader and a respondent in norm, we are in real trouble—even if it that whole discussion." International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform is random virtue, which may be virtue About His Run for Congress: but is certainly not dependable. I would The Fifteenth Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and "There are predictable downsides to like to find a way to get beyond random¬ Educational Reform will be held from July 30-August 2,1995 at Sonoma running for public office that have to ness. I keep coming back to the point do with getting oneself enmeshed in State University in Rohnert Park, California. The conference brings that we need reliable ways of doing the political process; you really have together over 1,200 scholars and educators from all levels and domains of things. It can't be on the basis of to fight to maintain your identity, education to discuss the theory and practice of critical thinking. The because there are people at every volunteerism. We need institutions we conference theme for this year is Three Waves of Research and Practice in step who want to define you and can trust. That is why I think it would who tell you that it is good for them Critical Thinking. Session proposals are requested and must be received be very shortsighted to eliminate to be defining you. But I learned that by April 15,1995. For more information on proposal forms or registra¬ institutions that have been trustworthy, a candidate really can be an influence tion, contact: Center for Critical Thinking, Sonoma State University, for good. If one does it right, one can like NEH, CCH or NEA. They have Rohnert Park, CA 94928; telephone 707/664-2940, e-mail, inspire people to a vision beyond the done good work and are relatively [email protected], or fax 707/664-4101. vision they may have had to begin inexpensive." with." e n

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