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DocuSign Envelope ID:0E33E5E7-2F9B-4F3C-9COD-95D21AC52620 <br /> Survey. North Carolina Folklore Journal 45:1 (Winter-Spring): entire volume. <br /> Hemming, Jill. Waccamaw Siouan Quilters: Piecing the Past and Future. Collaborative <br /> writing and editing with quilters.The News Reporter: Whiteville, NC. <br /> Grants <br /> 2014 Arts in Education Grant, Orange County Arts Commission <br /> Organized performances for the Seawell PTA Enrichment committee. <br /> 2002 North Carolina Arts Council, Documentation Grant <br /> Developed a community narrative of the Southern Albemarle region of North Carolina for inclusion <br /> in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2004 program"Water Ways: Mid-Atlantic Maritime Culture." <br /> This included facilitation of community planning meetings,fieldwork, processing, interpretation and <br /> recommendations to Smithsonian staff. <br /> 1998 North Carolina Arts Council, Documentation Grant. <br /> Fieldwork documentation of commercial fishing culture in Albemarle Sound region—specifically the <br /> 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 and <br /> 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 and <br /> 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 project. <br /> 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 <br /> Waccamaw-Siouan tribe of North Carolina. The documentation from this project has enriched <br /> state quilt history and introduced Waccamaw-Siouan culture outside their region. Waccamaw <br /> quilters 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 housed <br /> in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC-CH. 1994. <br /> I'! <br /> li <br /> �i. <br />