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DocuSign Envelope ID: 26350935 -D1 DF -47BB- 9676- CBE4F7DD63FB <br />"Listening for a Change: Oral History in North Carolina Communities." Panel <br />presentation at the Southern Oral History Program's 25th Anniversary Event, Chapel Hill, <br />NC. 8,April. <br />1997 "Waccamaw- Siouan Quilts: A Model for Studying Native American <br />Quilting." Paper presented at the American Quilt Study Group 1997 Seminar. <br />Lawrence, KS. 10 -12 October. <br />"Towards Self- Definition: The Waccamaw- Siouan Quilt Project." Paper presented at the <br />second annual conference of the Southern Oral History Organization. Durham, North <br />Carolina, 10 -12 March. <br />Grants <br />2002 North Carolina Arts Council, Documentation Grant <br />Developed a community narrative of the Southern Albemarle region of North Carolina for <br />inclusion in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2004 program "Water Ways: Mid - Atlantic Maritime <br />Culture." This included facilitation of community planning meetings, fieldwork, processing, <br />interpretation and recommendations to Smithsonian staff. <br />1998 North Carolina Arts Council, Documentation Grant. <br />Fieldwork documentation of commercial fishing culture in Albemarle Sound region — specifically <br />the pound netting and boat building traditions of the Davenports, brother fishermen regionally <br />recognized as extraordinary practitioners of traditional fishing. This work led to the Davenports <br />receiving a prestigious NC Folk Heritage Award in 2007. Resulting interviews, field notes, and <br />slides housed in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC -CH. <br />1997 North Carolina Arts Council, Folklife Projects Grant <br />Grant co- written with Waccamaw- Siouan tribe to fund the publication of a booklet on quilters <br />and quilting traditions in the Waccamaw community. Copies have been sold locally and given to <br />participating quilters and their families. <br />1996 North Carolina Arts Council, Documentation Grant. <br />Fieldwork survey of traditional culture in the Waccamaw- Siouan tribe, including church music <br />and worship, cornhusk weaving, and fishing. Also under this grant, worked with tribal leaders to <br />procure funding for a publication on quilting as follow -up to a previous quilt documentation <br />project. Documentation housed in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC -CH. 1996. <br />1994 North Carolina Arts Council, Documentation Grant. <br />Used fieldwork techniques to survey, interview and photograph quilters from the Waccamaw - <br />Siouan tribe of North Carolina. The documentation from this project has enriched state quilt <br />history and introduced Waccamaw- Siouan culture outside their region. Waccamaw quilters <br />showed quilts and demonstrated quilting at the 1995 Eno River Festival in Durham, NC - -an <br />event attended by over 30,000 people. Also, through my nomination, Waccamaw quilter Lee <br />Jacobs received a prestigious 1996 North Carolina Folk Heritage Award. Documentation <br />housed in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC -CH. 1994. <br />