Grantee tags oral history

Song Quilts: A Celebration of Stitch and Song

Eliza Hardy Jones

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

The Song Quilts project is a visual interpretation of folk songs from the American South and the Russian Arctic. Each quilt is an exact “color transcription” of songs recorded during interviews with women across Russia and the US. Read More

“The Power of Good Will: African Americans and Jews together for Civil Rights”

Alliance of Ethics & Art Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Interviews with Blacks and Jews who fought for equality, North and South—even risking death--are powerful evidence of what Eli Siegel, founder of the education Aesthetic Realism, identified: "the force of ethics” working in people throughout history. Read More

Legal Tender: Women & the Secret Life of Money

McEwen, Christian

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Legal Tender is a play about women's relationship to money. It is based on interviews with 46 different women, ranging in age from 6 to 94, and is composed like a collage, pieced together out of stories, choruses and quotations. The set is minimal. Read More