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Show National Park Service FISCAL YEAR 2011 GRANT AWARDS In 2011- the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program's third year - 24 awards provided $2.9 million to projects that involved 12 states. A list ofthe winning projects follows. When a project is marked with an asterisk (*), the applicant is from one state and the confinement site associated with the project is in another. FY2011 Project Descriptions by State ARIZONA Recipient: Project Title: Grant Award: Site(s): Arizona State University Japanese American Internment in Arizona Oral History Website Project $18,635 Gila River Relocation Center, Pinal County, AZ Colorado River Relocation Center (Poston), La Paz County, AZ Description: Arizona State University has conducted more than 100 oral history interviews with Japanese Americans interned at the Gila River and Poston camps and the surrounding communities. However, parts of only 23 interviews currently are online to supplement a K-12 curriculum developed by local teachers. Through this project, the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Arizona State will process, edit, transcribe and post the remaining 85 interviews online, as well as incorporate the existing website into a new platform. *Under California, see the Poston Community Alliance project, "Poston's Mothers and Babies: A Film on Domestic Life in Camp." ARKANSAS Recipient: Central Arkansas Library System Project Title: Rosalie Gould Rohwer Collection: Preservation Grant Award: $67,821 Site(s): Rohwer Relocation Center, Desha County, AR Description: In 2010, the Central Arkansas Library System obtained the Gould-Vogel Hand carved and painted bird by internee at the collection, comprising 22 boxes of Rohwer Relocation Center; artist unknown. documents depicting everyday life at Photo courtesy: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock Rohwer Relocation Camp, as well as 306 pieces of art produced by internees who attended the camp high school, where they studied with art teacher Mabel "Jamie" Jamison Vogel. In her will, Vogel left the collection to Rosalie Gould of the nearby town of McGehee, who became a champion for preserving Rohwer and its story. Project funding will be used to clean, mend, and frame the artwork, which will be featured in an exhibit and on a website of the Central Arkansas Library. Recipient: University of Arkansas at Little Rock Project Title: The Rohwer Relocation Camp Cemetery Preservation Project Grant Award: $250,000 4 |
