Views, You'll Read About How These Themes Connect Our Programs, Guide Our Partnerships, and Help Us Make the Humanities Part of the Daily Life of All Virginians

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3 Women Front and Center 9 Telling the Whole Story 17 The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls 33 From Conversation to Collective Action Earlier this year we launched a strategic plan that focuses our work on questions that are important and relevant to Virginians right now. It's organized around three themes: amplifying Virginia’s stories; investigating cultures in transition; and, exploring issues related to equity and democracy. In this edition of Views, you'll read about how these themes connect our programs, guide our partnerships, and help us make the humanities part of the daily life of all Virginians.

Since our founding in 1974, we have focused on Virginia's stories. Stories bring meaning to our lives, build our capacity for empathy, and connect us to one another. As we seek to and investigate ways that American democracy amplify Virginia's stories, we will also high- both advances and inhibits the equality of light and celebrate experiences traditionally all people. One story highlights the work of left out of mainstream narratives. In the women who fought for suffrage and details following pages, you’ll find a piece about how how the Rosel Schewel Fund will support our Encyclopedia Virginia helped third-grade programming by and about women. Another teachers Alexa Weeks and Leatrice Woods piece focuses on our partnership with the and their students at Smithland Elementary Hampton Roads Community Foundation that School create virtual tours of a historically brought psychologist and author Beverly Tatum Black neighborhood in Harrisonburg. In to the Norfolk region to speak about the impact another story, we take you on tour with of privilege and implicit bias on the region. And Richmond’s Legendary Ingramettes as they we interrogate what it means for our Center spread the rich traditions of American gospel for the Book to be housed in a building that music across Serbia and Bulgaria. And you'll was created to serve Charlottesville’s Black see how dozens of grants we gave this year students during segregation. are empowering Virginia’s communities to tell their own stories. By necessity, we are a diversely funded organization. This year we celebrate the While our work uplifts and celebrates Virginia’s fact that the Virginia General Assembly has history and culture, it also explores difficult granted an additional $300,000 per year parts of our past and acknowledges that of the biennium to our grants program, Virginians today are confronting economic, returning our grants budget to pre-recession environmental, and technological change. levels. Out of these funds, $100,000 is When we look at cultures in transition, we specifically for grant-making and developing try to understand how these major shifts in resources in south and southwest Virginia. our world affect us and our future. One such We’re able to offer expansive programs and story explores our Festival of the Book’s do all that we do across this Commonwealth partnership with the Southern Environmental because of state and federal investments, Law Center to honor writing that brings corporate and foundation gifts, and your attention to environmental issues. In another belief in the power of stories to transform story, a Fellow shares what it was like to grow lives and build a vibrant future for our state. up as a child of two cultures and how food can In the pages that follow, I hope you will see keep a family connected to their roots. how far your support reaches.

In all times, we must consider how our nation With gratitude, COVER can strive to become a more perfect union Students at Charlottesville High School made letterpress and move toward the noble, but imperfectly expressed ideal that “all men are created posters featuring proverbs and sayings important to them Matthew Gibson equal.” Our programs exploring equity and when Detroit-based printmaker Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Executive Director democracy encourage civic dialogue, facilitate visited area art classes as part of his Frank Riccio artist the exchange of experiences and perspectives, residency. To learn more, see “Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. – Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence” inside. ABOVE - Matthew Gibson

Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities Women Front and Center

Virginia Humanities announces a new five-year initiative marking the centennial of the ratification of the 3 Nineteenth Amendment. The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls

17 Kim O'Connell shares the ways food helped her family navigate the immigrant experience and maintain their cultural roots.

3 Women Front 17 The Saving Grace 25 Content and and Center of Spring Rolls Context: The Meaning of Book Arts 8 Festival Partnership 22 Amos Paul Kennedy Raises Awareness of Jr. – Frank Riccio Environmental Writing Artist-in-Residence 31 Teaching Local History

Telling the 9 Telling the 23 Grants 33 From Conversation Whole Story Whole Story to Collective Action 13 Call and Response 35 Annual Report 9 Virginia Humanities helps reveal the lives of the enslaved and widen the scope of narratives presented at plantations statewide.

Call and Content Response 13 25 and Context: Tag along with The Legendary The Meaning Ingramettes and Sherman Holmes as they spread the traditions of of Book Arts gospel and blues music across Serbia and Bulgaria. Lyall Harris delves into what it means to be a book artist. Women Front and Center

By Donna M. Lucey

ne needn’t look into a crystal ball to the programming will focus on the nuances of predict that 2020 will be a political roller the woman suffrage movement, with its internal coaster: a contentious presidential election divisions and political jockeying, as well as the will play out alongside celebrations suffragists themselves, many of whom performed honoring the centennial of women achieving the extraordinary acts of physical courage. right to vote. August 20, 2020, will mark 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Virginia played a central role in some of the more and November 2, 2020, will commemorate the dramatic moments of the suffrage movement. anniversary of the day women across the country In 1917, women peacefully protesting in front of went to the national polls for the first time. (A the White House were arrested and jailed in the number of states—mainly those in the West—had Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, Virginia. There, already granted full suffrage to women before the some of the suffragists were beaten and left passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.) unconscious. The women began a hunger strike to demand recognition as political prisoners. Prison A new, five-year initiative at Virginia Humanities officials, unmoved by the women’s pleas, force- exploring issues of particular interest to women fed them. A number of the women brutalized in will also begin in 2020. This ambitious undertaking Occoquan—among them several Virginians—traveled is made possible by a recently announced endowed across the country in 1919 on a speaking tour dubbed fund honoring Rosel Schewel, Virginia Humanities’ the “Prison Special." The former prisoners shared longest-serving board member, who passed away their horrific experiences and added a dramatic touch on September 28, 2017. The initiative will begin by wearing their prison uniforms. by examining the theme of “Women and Political Engagement” in a series of public events in the weeks before the presidential election. Part of

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Festival Partnership Raises Awareness of Environmental Writing IMPACT STORY

More than ten years ago, a unique partnership formed between the Virginia Festival of the Book and the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) to celebrate some of today’s top environmental writers and journalists.

SELC created the Reed Environmental Writing Award in 1994 to increase awareness of the value and vulnerability of the South's natural heritage and to recognize and encourage writers who tell stories about the region's environment. In 2008, SELC and Festival staff began collaborating to honor winners of the annual award at a public event during the Festival each year.

The first African American women to vote in Ettrick, Virginia pose for a The partnership has continued to grow, providing the opportunity for the Festival to present award-winning photograph in 1920. Virginia State University, a historically black public land-grant university, is located in Ettrick. All of these women were authors while also raising awareness of the topics their work addresses, from environmental racism to on the faculty of the university. Pictured in the first row, left to right, climate change and its impacts on people and animals alike. Bill Sublette joined the effort in 2014 as the are Mary Branch, Anna Lindsay, Edna Colson, Edwina Wright, Johnella SELC’s coordinator of the Reed Environmental Writing Awards. Frazer (Jackson), and Nannie Nichols. In the back row, left to right, are Eva Conner, Evie Carpenter (Spencer), and Odelle Green. “The authors and journalists are shining a light on some of the most pressing issues we face, from the Photo courtesy of Special Collections and University Archives, Johnston Memorial Library, Virginia State University effects of climate change to the impacts of pollution on vulnerable communities,” says Sublette.

In recent years, award winners have included J. Drew Lanham, author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature; Deborah Cramer, author of The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab & an Epic Journey; and Earl Swift, former Virginia Humanities Fellow and author of Chesapeake the unsung achievements of women who fought to panel discussions often revolve around current Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. get the vote; and the work of local civic activists in issues of particular concern to women; grants and Lynchburg’s past and present. fellowships have been a prime avenue for advancing “There have been so many compelling moments and so many moving stories told during the Reed Award scholarship on these themes; the African American events over the years,” says Sublette. “Our partnership with the Festival has helped engage audiences that These events will mark the start of a five-year and Virginia Indian programs have highlighted we might not have reached otherwise [and] it’s such a privilege to contribute to the energy and excitement initiative by Virginia Humanities. During that time, the contributions of women ignored in traditional that the Festival brings each year. The community just comes to life.” woman-led and woman-focused projects will explore histories; the dynamic work of the Virginia Folklife topics on an annual thematic basis. After starting with Program has long provided evidence of the In addition to SELC, the Virginia Festival of the Book partners with more than 170 community organizations women in the political sphere, other broad topics will importance of women in traditional arts and crafts, each year. To learn more, visit https://www.vabook.org. include women’s health, women in social movements, from gospel singing to oyster shucking; and the the hidden—or undervalued—labor of women, and Virginia Humanities radio programs BackStory and women’s stories that have yet to be told. This initiative With Good Reason have offered engaging platforms will coincide with a committee-led fundraising effort for exploring women’s stories. If successful in to grow the Rosel Schewel Fund to $500,000 by 2025. reaching its fundraising goal, the Rosel Schewel Fund will protect and amplify this important programming for years to come. Virginia Humanities is well positioned to add to the ongoing conversation about the expertise, challenges, triumphs, and diverse experiences of Virginia women; its programs already have a long history of exploring and amplifying these themes. Encyclopedia Virginia’s section on Women’s History contains more than 100 entries that supply rich historical context; the Virginia Festival of the Book Learn more about the history of woman suffrage has always been a prime showcase for rising young in Virginia in Encyclopedia Virginia by visiting EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Woman_Suffrage_in_Virginia. women authors as well as established ones, and Reed Environmental Writing Award-winner J. Drew Lanham (right) talks to SELC's Jeff Gleason and his mother, Betz Gleason, during the 2018 Virginia Festival of the Book. 07 | WOMEN FRONT AND CENTER Photo courtesy of SELC TELLING THE

Virginia Humanities helps reveal the lives of the enslaved and widen the scope of narratives presented at plantations statewide.

By Samantha Willis

09 STORY WHOLE THE TELLING | history, says Niya Bates. Bates has been a public completed in 1813 to house Virginia's governors and historian of African American life at Monticello for their enslaved workers. “We are in the very early the past three years and heads its Getting Word oral stages of assisting in the reinterpretation of the history project. Monticello was the first plantation mansion’s kitchen,” says Reid. The 200-square-foot in the state to conduct such a project, which began space is original to the building and was restored in 1993, says Bates, thanks in part to a 1992 grant in 2017 under the auspices of former Governor from Virginia Humanities. Terry McAuliffe and his wife, former First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe. Reid says that in the future, "Getting to know the descendants, hearing their Virginia Humanities hopes to facilitate a 360-degree stories and their families’ stories, has been the virtual tour of the kitchen quarter in the manner most impactful part of this process for me," says of its Google Street View mapping project. “I have Bates of Getting Word. More than 200 people, most been advocating for a descendant-led model [of of them descended from the enslaved families at reinterpretation],” adds Reid, a method that will Monticello, have contributed their time and family lend dignity and authenticity to the legacy of those knowledge to the project. From its conception, enslaved at the mansion. Getting Word’s purpose has been to “locate the descendants of Monticello’s African American Bates says descendants of the enslaved must be families and to record and preserve their stories included and empowered in the telling of their and histories,” reads the original grant application ancestors' stories at plantations. the organization submitted to Virginia Humanities. These Black stories and histories had been “The only way to equitably involve the descendant excluded, obscured, or downplayed by traditional community is to make them part of the leadership areas of research and focus at Monticello and other with these types of projects,” says Bates. When plantations, says Bates. descendants advised Monticello to rethink how it presented the life of Sally Hemings, an “Enslaved people were not bystanders in American enslaved Black woman who mothered at least history,” Bates says pointedly. Rather, Black people, hroughout 2019, Virginia has reflected [working with] Google Street View to map slave six of Jefferson’s children, the Thomas Jefferson including those enslaved at Virginia plantations like on the year 1619, when the first enslaved dwellings across the state." With multi-year support Foundation listened, says Bates. A new exhibition Africans were brought to its shores 400 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Monticello, were participants and provocateurs, about Hemings—which presents a comprehensive, years ago. This event was at the vanguard Encyclopedia Virginia has documented existing pushing the nation forward economically, socially nuanced view of Hemings as a whole human, of a brutal, uniquely American system of race- historic sites once inhabited by enslaved people - and culturally—even as it held them captive. instead of as an object of mystery and scandal— based slavery that kept Black Virginians captive some at former plantations. Google Earth Outreach was produced by Monticello last year, with direct for nearly 250 years. Helping plantations tell their premiered a short film about the project this June input from Hemings’s descendants. histories more honestly—in a way that confronts in honor of the historic African American cultural "Getting to know the descendants, Bates’s and Virginia Humanities’ hope is that more false perceptions of "idyllic" Southern plantations, holiday Juneteenth. hearing their stories and their and elevates the lives of the African Americans plantations will include descendants as living whose toil sustained their white enslavers—is Reid also points to Virginia Humanities’ longstanding families’ stories, has been the most experts in the reframing of their narratives and among the most critical and timely work Virginia those of their ancestors. support of Virginia plantations through grants impactful part of this process for me." Humanities has undertaken. designed not only to preserve the tangible history in these spaces but also to widen the scope of the “It’s their history,” says Bates. “We need to help - Niya Bates Virginia Humanities is working to "introduce new narratives they present. Over the years, Virginia them tell their own stories.” models and new ways of engaging the descendant Humanities has awarded grants for this kind of work communities at Virginia plantations," says Justin to plantations including James Monroe’s Highland, Virginia Humanities has expanded its work of Reid, Virginia Humanities’ director of African James Madison’s Montpelier, Thomas Jefferson’s illuminating the stories of Virginia’s enslaved by American Programs. "We try to promote this Poplar Forest, and Monticello. partnering with the Citizen’s Advisory Council on knowledge through our programs like Encyclopedia Furnishing and Interpreting the Executive Mansion. Virginia, and some of our recent projects like Virginia Humanities has played a particularly Located in Richmond, the Executive Mansion was important role in helping Monticello reframe its

PREVIOUS PAGE ABOVE Learn more about Monticello’s Getting Word Watch a film by Google Earth Outreach about This early nineteenth-century folk painting by an unknown artist, Niya Bates (left) and Justin Reid (right) visited James Monoroe's project by visiting Monticello.org/getting-word. Virginia Humanities’ work documenting slave dwellings at titled The Plantation, depicts a grand plantation mansion atop a hill. Highland in December of 2018 as part of a documentary being 11 STORY WHOLE THE TELLING | VirginiaHumanities.org/mapping-slave-dwellings. filmed by Google Earth Outreach. Image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Photo by Peter Hedlund, Virginia Humanities CALL & RESPONSE

By Greg Willett

In a small Catholic church in Pleven, Bulgaria, the congregation sat in silence. The Reverend Almeta Ingram-Miller and her gospel group, The Legendary Ingramettes, were told it might be a tough crowd. But as their energy and command of American gospel reverberated through the pews, exuberance took over. The power of music pushed through the barriers of language, geography, and culture. And by the end, almost everyone in the crowd was out of their seat, dancing and cheering. The audience even joined together to sing a traditional Bulgarian folk song for their guests.

This response would come as no surprise to the folks back home in Richmond, where the Ingramettes are a gospel institution. The group was formed there in the 1960s by “Mama” Maggie Ingram, the Ingramettes' matriarch and leader for more than five decades. A single mother of five, Ingram received what Ingram- Miller—her daughter—describes as a “spiritual calling” to drive her children in their old Chevy from Miami, Florida, to Richmond in 1961—a risky journey through the segregated South. “Mama got a call,” from God, Ingram-Miller explains, “that if she came to Richmond and taught us all to sing we’d one day bless people all over the world.”

Maggie Ingram worked tirelessly toward this goal for more than fifty years until her death in 2015. It’s a dream Ingram-Miller kept pursuing. But the Ingramettes, while nationally recognized, had never left the United States.

The Legendary Ingramettes and Sherman Holmes performed at the American College of Sofia, Bulgaria on 5/21/19.

13 | CALL & RESPONSE Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities That all changed in May of 2019, when the group—which now includes Maggie's granddaughter, Cheryl Maroney Yancey, and Carrie Ann Jackson—embarked on a cultural exchange tour that took them through Bulgaria and Serbia. Organized and produced by the Virginia Folklife Program in collaboration with the American embassies in those countries, and joined by blues musician Sherman Holmes of the Holmes Brothers, the Ingramettes took part in workshops, classroom discussions, and exhibitions, and even performed on late-night television.

They came during a sensitive time. The trip occurred during the twentieth anniversary of when NATO, led by the United States, bombed Serbian military targets in Kosovo over ten weeks in 1999. The airstrikes killed hundreds, and the anniversary had rekindled raw and tragic memories—and anti-American sentiment—in the region.

“Mama got a call [from God] that if she came to Richmond and taught us all to sing we’d one day Randall Cort instructs children on his drum bless people all over the world.” set after a performance with the Rolling THE LEGENDARY Tones Choir in Bulgaria. - Almeta Ingram-Miller Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities INGRAMETTES But in one town after another, when the Ingramettes took the stage, emotion gripped the audience. Concertgoers hugged, The Virginia Folklife Program has cried, danced, and posed for selfies. A sense of humanity enjoyed a long friendship with the and empathy permeated each performance. Kyle Scott, U.S. Legendary Ingramettes, which has ambassador to Serbia, said, “Nothing that the U.S. could included many impactful collaborations. have brought over could have been better.” The Ingramettes have graced countless Virginia Folklife Program-produced When asked how it felt to be a cultural ambassador for the festival and concert stages including United States, Maroney Yancey replied, “It feels wonderful those at the Richmond Folk Festival, because I’ve never been out of my country. So to come to Watermelon Park Festival, FloydFest, another country and be accepted by individuals who don’t even and many others. The late Maggie Ingram know me, they made me feel like ‘you’re my sister, you’re my apprenticed her daughter Almeta in the aunt, you’re my cousin’ … it made my heart overwhelmed.” Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program in 2010, and Maggie’s granddaughter Cheryl participated as a Master Artist in For Jon Lohman, director of the Virginia Folklife Program, 2014. The Virginia Folklife Program has the international exchange highlighted the importance of the produced two CDs with the group: Maggie arts and humanities in bridging cultural divides. “We do this Ingram: Live in Richmond, which won because we think the world needs it,” he said. “What we need the Independent Music Award for Best is for people to see each other face to face. The arts are a Traditional Gospel Album of the Year in wonderful lens for us to view one another, and they show the 2012, and most recently, Take a Look in best of ourselves.” the Book, to be released in early 2020.

The Legendary Ingramettes have been showing audiences their best selves for six decades—in Virginia, across the United States, and now, in Europe. When the Ingramettes call, the world responds. Cheryl Maroney-Yancey embraces an audience Watch video clips of the Ingramettes and Sherman Holmes The Legendary Ingramettes performed at a member following a performance. synagogue in Novi Sad, Serbia on 5/26/19. on tour at VirginiaHumanities.org/ingramettes-2019. This story was co-published with UVA Arts Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities and appears in Volume 11 of UVA Arts magazine. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls By Nora Pehrson

Growing up in the 1970s in College Park, Maryland with a Vietnamese- born mother and an American-born father, Virginia Humanities Fellow Kim O’Connell’s experience of identity has always been complicated. How can immigrants assimilate into a new place without sacrificing their heritage? What does citizenship mean in a state that includes nearly one million foreign-born residents? These are some of the questions that have shaped O’Connell’s work. Her forthcoming book, The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls, uses her own family history to navigate and illuminate the broader Vietnamese immigrant experience in the years during and after the Vietnam War.

RIGHT Kim O'Connell holds a photo of her parents on their wedding day.

17 | THE SAVING GRACE OF SPRING ROLLS Photo by Pierre Courtois, Library of Virginia The theme of O’Connell’s work happens to align with the recently concluded “Voices of Vietnam” series by Virginia Humanities' With Good Reason radio show. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, “Voices of Vietnam” explored the unresolved tensions in our understanding of the Vietnam War and the perspectives and people it forever changed. The final episode in the series, “A Lost Homeland,” shared the stories of some of the Vietnamese communities that formed in America after the fall of Saigon.

Sarah McConnell, host of With Good Reason, recently sat down to talk with O’Connell about her time as a Virginia Humanities Fellow. They KO: Yes and no. I lived in a suburban house in discussed the complexities of having a biracial College Park, Maryland, and I had white skin like and cross-cultural heritage, dissected the idea my father. My mother felt a great sense of gratitude of the United States as a melting pot, pondered towards the United States and her way of repaying intergenerational shifts in values, and examined that gratitude was to be as American as possible. She was a PTA volunteer and held potluck dinners the cultural significance of spring rolls and KO: That's right. We have been cooking and eating KO: I really related to that part of the program. The with the neighbors. But we did experience some properly cooked rice. spring rolls together for more than forty years. speakers talked about how the first generation of racism because my parents were an interracial Whether it's spring rolls or some other dish, for a immigrants felt this kind of reverence and gratitude couple. People yelled things at my family and I had lot of Vietnamese immigrants, cooking and eating toward the United States, while the younger SM: Most Americans remember the desperate, a neighbor boy that liked to call my brother and me and shopping for food is such a strong way to feel generation is more progressive. There's a little dangerous exodus of hundreds of thousands of “VC,” for Viet Cong. That was his supposedly funny connected. So that's why I chose that title. more dissent in the ranks. That's the same tension Vietnamese families after the fall of Saigon [in little nickname for us. And I don't think my mother that I've experienced with my mother. 1975]. But your own mother's journey to America had many close friends until the Vietnamese enclave began before the fall. was established in Arlington. There were many SM: Tell me about your mother’s spring rolls and years when my mother was doing her absolute best how she made them. SM: You write about a Catholic priest who described to fit in, but was probably pretty lonely as a person. the struggle to be from two countries this way: He KO: That's right. My mother was a very bright said it's like catching two fish with two hands. It’s student in school and got herself hired as an KO: Well, they're packed! She uses two different not easy. instructor by the U.S. Army to teach Vietnamese to SM: Tell me about your forthcoming book. kinds of meat and a whole range of vegetables—

American soldiers. She was at the Okinawa army carrots, onion, mushrooms, jicama, peppers, and base in Japan when my father landed there in 1964. bean sprouts. It’s all seasoned into this incredible KO: Yes. It's really kind of impossible, actually. My book is a hybrid of journalism and memoir. They were back in the United States as a married KO: mixture that’s even greater than the sum of its parts. It builds on my own personal story of trying to couple by early 1967. Then you set up a factory on the table where you have understand what it is about me that makes me half the filling, the spring roll wrappers, and usually a SM: I think there is a lack of understanding on the Vietnamese. Many Vietnamese immigrants and little beaten egg which binds the wrapper together. part of most of us. We think each little family, far My mother was able to get out of Vietnam not as a refugees come here and have a hard time figuring And you have to fry them standing at the stove. It's flung from one another, will become Americanized. refugee, but as a young bride with a bright future. out, “How do I become American, how do I stay a wonderful, aromatic, and very rewarding process. But sometimes the very opposite happens. That was the reality I accepted for a long time. But Vietnamese?” It's a struggle for me as a child of this I feel more empathy now for the difficulties that interracial union to try and understand that, as well. KO: That's right. We all remember the phrase she went through leaving home. SM: As part of our “Voices of Vietnam” series, we created a nationally broadcast mini documentary on about America being the great melting pot. The The title of this forthcoming book, The Saving SM: the experience of Vietnamese Americans after the overarching idea of that is that people's selves SM: Your mother made sure everyone in your family Grace of Spring Rolls, is very poignant because it is war. It's called “A Lost Homeland.” What stood out kind of disappear as they melt. Now there's more spoke English, listened to American music, ate one of the things that most notably bound you and for you as you listened to the younger Vietnamese of a sense that what we really need is a mosaic— American food. Did you feel like the all-American your mother at your best. Americans in that episode talking about wrestling family? with their identity? ABOVE ABOVE Little Saigon was a Vietnamese neighborhood in Arlington, Kim O'Connell and her mother pose for a family photo Virginia, that served the refugee population that immigrated 19 | THE SAVING GRACE OF SPRING ROLLS in front of a Christmas tree. after the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

Photo courtesy Kim O'Connell Photo by Michael Horsley, courtesy Kim O'Connell we need all the pieces to be there. The effort to SM: Can you tell the difference between rice à la spread out [immigrant communities] was an American and rice à la Vietnamese? Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. – effort to make them melt away, but instead they kept sparkling and creating these enclaves, like IMPACT STORY Arlington’s former “Little Saigon.” KO: I certainly can. Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence

Give me one tip about rice that's not just SM: A few years ago, you had a project that was SM: In the spring of 2019, as the first Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.’s collaborative funded in part by Virginia Humanities where you “add rice to salted boiling water.” project, Finding Wisdom, engaged thousands of young people and adults in Central Virginia in the production of put together an oral history of the Vietnamese KO: Rinse it several times. You take all this surface letterpress posters featuring the proverbs and sayings important to them. Americans who settled in the Arlington, Virginia starch off the rice and it just cooks up fluffy and area outside Washington, DC. That turned out to be perfect. My mother would always do that. Local artists and organizations added their own aphorisms and printing to the mix. Spearheaded by UVa student the largest congregation of Vietnamese Americans artist and project coordinator Tia Nichols, venues throughout Charlottesville and the University of Virginia on the East Coast. What did you learn about displayed a selection of the more than 7,000 posters generated by the project. SM: What did your experience as a Fellow at Virginia that community and what that gave to Vietnamese Humanities last spring give you? Americans who were settling here? Kennedy’s energetic style focuses on power and poignancy over perfection. “It’s the flaw that makes you perfect,” he

reflected in his March 24, 2019 artist’s talk during the Virginia Festival of the Book. “What I do, I make a perfect mess.” KO: The fellowship afforded me an office at the KO: It gave them a sense of home. The oral history Library of Virginia for the spring semester of this program was really led by Virginia Tech students, In an event survey, one parent noted that they valued “the opportunity to engage with my daughter in a creative year. Just to have that space and time to really think and I served as a consultant. A Virginia Humanities process led by an artist whose work she’s viewed, and to hear the artist speak on his work, its relevance, and deeply about my project, to write, and do research, grant allowed us to use those oral history interviews the process.” it was just such a gift. in support of a booklet that I wrote called Echoes of Little Saigon that was published with support from A noteworthy piece of Finding Wisdom engaged the descendants of individuals who were enslaved at Monticello. the Arlington County government. Book artists from the Virginia Center for the Book assisted in printing selections from their oral histories, as chronicled in Monticello’s Getting Word project. “The printing workshop resonated with descendants because

they were able to see their family stories become art that would be shared with the community,” said Niya Bates, Listen to With Good Reason’s “Voices of Vietnam” What I discovered in that process was how important a public historian of Slavery and African American Life at Monticello. small acts—like shopping for a bottle of fish series and explore related lesson plans: WithGoodReasonradio.org/vietnam sauce—were for building a sense of home and a The Riccio residency was created to produce meaningful interactions with a vibrant and growing community of sense of peace. That's what allows you the strength book artists at the Virginia Center for the Book’s book arts studio in Charlottesville. The residency specifically to confront all the tasks that face you in terms of honors and invites artists who can engage both youth and adults to inspire a lifelong love of books, paper, and setting up a new life. Kim O'Connell was gracious enough to printmaking. Its namesake, Frank Riccio, was a well-loved illustrator and book artist who was an integral part share her mother's recipe for Vietnamese of the Center for the Book community before his passing in 2014. The fund and residency honor Riccio’s memory spring rolls (Cha Giò) with us! Download it at: I was very much struck in your “Lost Homeland” and recognize his legacy as a talented and tireless practitioner and educator in Virginia’s creative community. VirginiaHumanities.org/spring-rolls program, in fact, by how some of the interviewees were talking about rice and how important it was To learn more about the Riccio Residency visit VaBookCenter.org. to have rice cooked right. It sounds so basic, but actually, an investigation about the importance of rice is part of my research because rice is the lifeblood for so many cultures.

Learn more about Arlington’s Little Saigon Hear Virginia Folklife master artist Nam Phuong in the booklet mentioned by O’Connell: Nguyen play a Vietnamese lullaby on the dan bau: VirginiaHumanities.org/little-saigon VirginiaHumanities.org/dan-bau

The Riccio Residency was generously supported in its first Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. made prints with The Boys and Girls Hear Vietnamese immigrant Nhi Le share the story of her journey from Vietnam to Virginia, part of the New Virginians year by UVA’s Executive Vice President & Provost’s Office. Club of Central Virginia as part of his artist residency. 21 exhibit we produced for the 2019 commemoration, American Evolution: VirginiaHumanities.org/nhi-le Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities 4 Camilla Williams: Danville's Diva Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History | Danville Danville native Camilla Williams was the first African American soprano to appear with a major American opera company. She achieved international recognition, was honored as a “Distinguished Virginian” by Governor Linwood Holton, and was the first African American 26 to be given a “key to the city” of Danville in 1959. Her legacy as a pioneer in the arts and civil rights is exceptional but not widely known, even within the community where she was 16 34, 40, 42, 43 born. This grant is to help plan a series of public programs exploring Ms. Williams’ life 18 31 and achievements and is designed to introduce/re-introduce her story to local residents, including teachers and students. 33

GrantsVirginia Humanities supported these humanities 5 Voices from Richmond’s Hidden Epidemic projects between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019. The Valentine | Richmond Richmond currently ranks nineteenth among localities nationwide in the number of HIV/ 20 To LEARN MORE about the Grants Program, 41 AIDS cases per capita. This grant supports a major new exhibit exploring the story of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic in Richmond through the experiences of advocates, caregivers, and people visit VirginiaHumanities.org/Grants. currently living with the disease. The demographics of HIV/AIDS have shifted since the first 27 cases surfaced in the 1980s, and communities of color are now disproportionally affected. 17 Likewise, assumptions that the disease is a thing of the past and easy to treat are false

30 35 but still widely prevalent. We hope the exhibit will dispel these misconceptions and also 37 give Richmond audiences a deeper understanding of the history and human impact of this 39 disease.

3 5, 12, 14, 15, 22, 44 21 8 45 1 The Virginia Peanut Story 36 19 9 Western Tidewater Virginia Heritage, Inc. | Suffolk 32 11 29 It would be hard to overstate the importance of peanut farming to the history, culture, 13 2 economy, and communities of Western Tidewater, which includes Southampton, Surry, 46 Sussex, and Isle of Wight Counties and the City of Suffolk. Through a series of grants, the 7 24, 38 most recent awarded in October, 2018, Virginia Humanities has supported development of 25 28 an hour-long documentary film exploring this unique Virginia story through the eyes and 4 6 8 voices of local farmers, shellers, marketers and distributors, as well as historians, who trace the “Virginia peanut” from its origins in South America, to Africa and back across the Atlantic, and into the fields and tables of Western Tidewater as well as countless products sold throughout Virginia and worldwide.

1. Northampton Historic Preservation Society 14. American Civil War Museum 24. Chrysler Museum of Art 34. John M. Langston Citizens Association "The Last Jail on the Northampton County Court Green" Enacting Freedom: Black Virginians in Thomas Jefferson Architect: Palladian Halls Hill History - Concert and Walking Tour 13 Calfee Training School: the Age of Emancipation Models, Democratic Principles, and the 2. Watermen's Museum Conflict of Ideals 35. Virginia Organizing Honoring the Past, Planning for the Future Tidewater to Table Traveling Exhibit 15. American Civil War Museum B.F. Yancey Heritage and History Project YWCA of Pulaski County | Pulaski Victory in Defeat: The Davis Family and 25. William King Museum of Art 3. Maymont Foundation the Confederate Museum in the Lost Cause Cultural Heritage Archive, Online 36. Bower Center for the Arts This grant supports a “community-based historical memory project” focusing on Calfee "In Service and Beyond" D-Day Events, June 2019 Training School in Pulaski, one of many such schools that provided education to African 16. Challenging Racism 26. Video Action, Inc. 4. Danville Museum of Fine Art and History "We C.A.N." Changing Arlington's Humanities' Power to Heal: 37. Caswell County Historic Associations American children during the years of racial segregation in Virginia. What makes Calfee's Camilla Williams: Danville's Diva Narrative About Race Writing Through Illness Caswell History Speaks story different is an extraordinary (and largely unknown) legal case (Corbin v. County School Board of Pulaski) that challenged unequal facilities under the prevailing “separate 5. The Valentine 17. American Frontier Culture Foundation 27. Menokin Foundation 38. Norfolk State University but equal” doctrine. The story includes landmark figures like Thurgood Marshall and Oliver Voices from Richmond’s Hidden Epidemic 2019 Spring Lecture Series at the Uncovering Menokin's Hidden History “Changing the Racial Narrative: Using Drama Hill, and the case was one of only a few successful “equalization” cases filed by the NAACP Frontier Culture Museum to Heal Historic Divisions in Norfolk, VA” 6. The Center for Community Engagement 28. Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribal before it shifted its strategy toward challenging segregated public education at its root. and Career Competitiveness at Averett University 18. George Mason University Heritage Foundation, Inc. 39. Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center, Inc. African and African-American History Programming Virginia's Lost Appalachian Trail Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe Eastern Shore Museum Network Brochure Interpretative Trail Signs 16 Changing Arlington's Narrative About Race 7. Norfolk State University 19. Catticus Corp 40. Encore Stage & Studio Virginia Emigrants to Liberia Digital Project Planning Backlash 29. Petersburg Preservation Task Force Flip the Script “Challenging Racism,” Encore Stage & Studio, John M. Langston The Tobacco and Water-Powered Citizen’s Association | Arlington 8. Western Tidewater Virginia Heritage, Inc. 20. University of Mary Washington Industries Exhibits 41. Northeast Neighborhood Association (NENA) The Virginia Peanut Story Museum Exhibition on the TRHT Changing the Narrative: Harrisonburg, VA In 2018-19, with funding from the W.K Kellogg Foundation, Virginia Humanities awarded six History of African American 30. VICTORY HALL OPERA grants to support communities statewide in local efforts to “change the narrative” about race 9. Temple Beth El Education in Spotsylvania County "Performing History: Sally Hemings 42. Prio Bangla, Inc. and the history of race. Arlington is one of these. The project there (grant to “Challenging Jews in Virginia: Living New Lives, Facing Old Fears in the Artist's Imagination" Prio Bangla Festival Booklet Racism”) involved creating a digital repository of resources on race and racism, holding a series 21. Cape Charles Historical Society 10. New York Women in Film and Television Accession of Railroad Artifact Donations 31. Virginia Chamber Orchestra 43. Prio Bangla, Inc. of public conversations, and bringing middle-school students together with African American Alexandria's Dollhouse History to Cape Charles Historical Society (CCHS) Music in the Life of Eisenhower Interviews and Booklet Publication musicians and historians from the local community to write songs based on local history. The energy generated by this project led almost immediately to proposals from two other local 11. Christiansburg Institute, Inc. 22. Virginia Center for 32. Longwood University 44. Storefront For Community Design organizations: one (Encore Stage and Studio) to support development of an original play in Christiansburg Institute Wayside Signage Inclusive Communities Home and Abroad Writing Program Gabriel Week 2019 Changing the Narrative - Roanoke for Military Veterans and Family which middle and high school students worked with local historians from the Nauck/Green 12. Gallery 5 45. Virginia Tech Foundation, Inc. Valley and Halls Hill/Highview Park neighborhoods to create the script; the other (John M. "Richmond & ..." Discussion Series 23. Bloodroot Mountain 33. Prince William Public Library Foundation John Jackson Piedmont Blues Rappahannock Festival Langston Citizens Assn.) to create a walking tour, concert, and community discussion focusing Imagination in Education: “An Outrage” Discussion Guide on the history of the Halls Hill neighborhood and the (actual) “segregation wall” that was built 13. YMCA of Pulaski County Writers in Modern Appalachia for Public Libraries 46. Springhouse Community School to separate the African American neighborhood from the surrounding white community. Calfee Training School: Honoring the Finding Liberation and True Belonging Past, Planning for the Future in Community Through Song CONTENT & CONTEXT The Meaning of Book Arts

By Raennah Lorne Mitchell

26 On a cool morning last August, I met Lyall Harris the Center for the Book's new home in the historic SL: How do you see the Center for the Book fostering SL: What do you find unique about the Virginia as she prepared to teach a class on book arts at the Jefferson School City Center, originally constructed conversations and projects that help address issues Center for the Book? Virginia Center for the Book in Charlottesville. An in 1926 for Charlottesville’s African American like those you’ve grappled with about growing up in accomplished book artist, Harris had taped brown students, and the responsibilities of being a good Virginia? LH: This space is lovely, the light is amazing, and paper to countertops and spread out magazines tenant there. there’s a lot that can happen here—poetry readings, and slim books to inspire her students. Book arts, LH: The fact that we’re now located at the Jefferson for instance. The annual collaborative project and Harris says, isn’t prescriptive. The medium may SL: You grew up in Lynchburg, moved elsewhere School is such a beautiful and complicated thing. the Frank Riccio Artist Residency are truly unique to combine text, with or without a visual element, and experienced a lot of different communities, but We have an incredible opportunity to be humble this center. And you only have to take a few steps to along with sequence and structure. It “requires the ultimately ended up back in Virginia. What drew you and to be honest. We are a very white organization be immersed in deep history about the building and reader to engage with it in a different way,” than back? and, I might add, so is Virginia Humanities. It’s an the area at the Jefferson School African American printed books do, says Harris. interesting dance. I have to make my work and Heritage Center. Then outside the building you’re LH: I think I was meant to return here and contend I want it to be heard. At the same time, I need to in Vinegar Hill [the historically Black neighborhood In the sunlit studio, among broadsides and printing with my past as a white person growing up in Virginia step aside and not be central in my whiteness. And that was razed in 1964]. You have a context here presses, Harris and I were joined by Sarah Lawson, in the 1970s. And I have to say, the Center for the here we are literally at the center of the Jefferson specifically that is a doorway. the assistant director of the Virginia Center for the Book is one of the reasons I chose Charlottesville. School. It’s a privilege to be in this space and it’s Book and a relatively new book arts student herself. It was important for me to have a landing pad that good if we recognize that every time we come in SL: There is so much more to book arts than just PAGE THE TURNING Together, we delved into questions about Harris’s could support my art medium. This is such a best- here. The location sets Virginia Humanities, and the the physical art making. It’s about relationships and path as an artist, what constitutes book arts, and kept secret that I’m afraid to tell people what a best- Center for the Book, on a potential path of so much context and the environment in which the work is how art differs from craft. Harris considered these kept secret it is. I think it’s an amazing thing that the growth. But that requires us stepping aside to do it. being made. questions within the context of creating book arts at Center for the Book exists in Charlottesville. We are not directing it. But we can open to it.

PREVIOUS TOP PREVIOUS BOTTOM ABOVE | This piece by Lyall Harris is called "Interior Landscape." Lyall Harris leads the class, "What Is Book Art?" at the Virginia This piece by Lyall Harris is called "Chronicles of Migration."

27 | CONTENT & CONTEXT - THE MEANING OF BOOK ARTS 09 Center for the Book at Jefferson School City Center in Charlottesville. Photo courtesy Lyall Harris Photo courtesy Lyall Harris Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities LH: That is the art part of book art. For me book art LH: This is the age-old question of, “How do you has always been that. Craft without context is just show book art?” You can’t experience book art that—it’s craft. unless you experience the book and hold it. It’s an intimate experience. It’s your relationship to this RM: Why did you choose book arts as your medium? material, how you engage with the content and sequence. LH: I think it chose me, honestly. I was a painter and dabbled in poetry. Then I found myself in Italy SL: What would you tell someone who wants to learn painting on these handmade papers in the early more and become involved with the community? nineties. I started folding them and making them into sculptural objects. Then words started to LH: Google book art images and see what speaks to appear. When I moved to San Francisco in 1998, you. Stop by and look at some of the collaborative someone told me about book arts and a place projects. That’s what I did before I moved here. You called the Center for the Book and I started taking can alter books, you can cut into them to make them classes. Next thing I know I got an MFA in book art sculptural, you can create an erasure experience and creative writing from Mills College. I had been with the text, you can handcraft paper, you can thinking about getting a master’s for a while, but life even knit a book. There’s just everything. If you’re conspired to have me wait for this because it was curious, ask yourself, what do you want to know? absolutely the right thing. I love the materials, the precision, and the craft. I love that you can speak SL: What do you hope to see happen here in the next through the structure. The first question is always, couple of years? “Is book art illustration?” It can be. But it’s not only. It’s so much more. LH: I’d love to collaborate with the kids at the Carver Recreation Center. I’d love for the African American RM: Can you speak a bit about the significance of Heritage Center to use our facility and ability to do book art in the digital age? something they want to do. If we could be of service that would be so cool. Again, not directing it. LH: I think it’s limitless. In the digital age so much is Stepping aside and letting the skills and equipment happening. There are books that have buttons, that and human power help make manifest what some light up, that get projected, that are video. “What other people have to say. is a book?” This is the question. I love materials so damn much I’m not that into the digital possibilities, but it’s an incredible time for people who are. The Center for the Book is all about the material and To learn more about the Virginia Center for the Book or to sign up this old technology. That’s the beauty of a place like for a class in book arts, visit VABookCenter.org. this. That’s not going to die.

SL: Talking about your work brings to the forefront that it’s meant to be engaged with, not just looked at in a case. You want people to read it and interact with it.

TOP LEFT BOTTOM LEFT This piece by Lyall Harris is called "Sylvia Plath." This piece by Lyall Harris is called "Walk In My Shoes."

Photo courtesy Lyall Harris Photo courtesy Lyall Harris IMPACT STORY Teaching Local History

In February 2019, as part of Virginia Humanities’ two- Using technology to create a place-based curriculum year Changing the Narrative project, Encyclopedia resulted in a much deeper level of understanding for Virginia staff along with educators at Smithland students in Woods’ and Weeks’ classes. “This project Elementary School in Harrisonburg developed an was birthed from a passion for students’ ability to innovative, engaging curriculum to teach students the see themselves in their curriculum or to provide historical meaning behind everyday places in their a window to their classmates’ experiences and neighborhood. stories,” Woods said. Their work also inspired other Smithland classes to engage in similar projects. To encourage investigation of lesser-known Their leadership and innovation was recognized in narratives, teachers Alexa Weeks and Leatrice a presentation at the Lucy F. Simms Educator of Woods selected sites near their school with the Year awards ceremony as well as at the second a connection to Black history. Smithland is Virginia Humanities Changing the Narrative teacher surrounded by a number of such sites including the institute in the summer of 2019. Dallard-Newman House, Newtown Cemetery, and Ralph Sampson Park, as well as the Lucy F. Simms Embracing stories of marginalized communities School and a mural in her honor. Encyclopedia has undeniable benefits for inclusive education. Virginia’s assistant editor, Miranda Bennett, One Smithland student explained, “It is important helped Weeks and Woods research the sites so to learn about all history.” Another third-grader they could develop grade-level appropriate texts shared, “We uncover history by learning about and corresponding lesson plans for their nearly people who made a difference in this world.” fifty third-grade students. The Changing the Narrative project is funded by a Over the course of two weeks, the students explored two-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. the historical sites. They were first introduced to the Its aim is to broaden and reframe narratives of sites in their classrooms through traditional study. Virginia’s past by engaging local communities and In small groups, they researched and answered youth in addressing the present-day challenges of probing questions about each site: What happened racism and bias. here? Why was it important? Who did it impact? By answering these questions, students made compelling connections with factual narratives of the places they studied. Next, the students visited each location, captured 360-degree images, and produced virtual field trips of each site using a tool called the “Google Tour Creator.”

LEFT Learn more about Changing the Narrative at Students from Alexa Weeks' and Leatrice Woods' VirginiaHumanities.org/changing-the-narrative.

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Kathleen Placidi and John P. d'Entremont * Faith Andrews Bedford PATRONS and Robert F. Bedford, MD 3 Elizabeth A. Ragosta and John A. Ragosta 4* Gifts of $250 to $499 Patricia A. Benson and Peter Benson 4* Angelita Reyes 9* ANNOUNCING THE VIRGINIA Joanna Berry * Elizabeth Roderick and John T. Kneebone 19* Susan R. Stein and Kenneth S. Abraham 3* Elaine Best 2 Eleanor B. Shannon Anonymous [1] Betty F. Strider Trust 2 Roger C. Sherry HUMANITIES GOLD CIRCLE Margaret S. Black * Daniel J. Bieker Margaret Walton Smith and Thomas O. Cogill 5 Joanne T. Blakemore Diane D. Bisgaier and Henry Bisgaier * After a record-setting year thanks to generous donors deepening their investment in Virginia Humanities, we and J. Haywood Blakemore, IV Joanne H. Speiden and William H. Speiden Walter Bissex are changing the way we recognize your increased support. Next year we will unveil the Virginia Humanities Blue Whale Books, Inc. Sarah Kate Stephenson and James R. Funk 2 Tracy L. Black-Howell Gold Circle – a top-tier acknowledgment for individuals, corporations and foundations with a cumulative annual Tommy L. Bogger 12* Robert E. Troxell 2* donation of $5,000 or more to Virginia Humanities and its programs and initiatives. VIRGINIA HUMANITIES Mary Campbell Blanchard and Peter Blake 11* Joyce Galbraith Colony 4* Emma C. Edmunds 17* STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION AT JUNE 30, 2018 FOR Betsy Bloom and Thomas A. Bloom 2 Jennifer Compton Evelyn Edson and Andrew A. Wilson 11* VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY Kathy A. Boi and Keith J. Boi * Ann C. Connell 2 Deborah Ellis and Llewellyn B. Bigelow *

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Jane E. Bowers and Gerald M. Bowers Bettie Minette Cooper Richard Emmett * and Charles N. Cooper 15* Brooke Bowersox Carl F. Erickson * CURRENT ASSETS LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Dina Copelman Paddy Bowman 11* Margaret Anne Eschenroeder Cash and cash equivalents $3,617,672 Current Liabilities Eugenia A. Cornell 2 and H. C. Eschenroeder Jr., MD Jeanine D. Braithwaite and Allan Nathanson Investments $4,630,863 Lee Larson Cornwell Stacey Evans and John F. Grant Grants Receivable $609,580 Accounts Payable $37,093 Alletta Du Pont Bredin-Bell and Neil J. Bell Pledges Receivable $69,070 Accrued Expenses $141,538 Margaret Cox 9 Takako Ezell and James Ezell Nancy M. Brewbaker Other Receivable $456,888 Grants Payable $182,940 and Robert S. Brewbaker Jr. 2* Brian Craine 2 Anne M. Farrell 4 Prepaid Expenses $15,651 Deferred Revenue $453,590 Current Portion of Long Term Liabilities $18,619 Susan M. Brickman 2* Antje Crawford Krista S. Farrell and Patrick Farrell 5 Total Current Assets $9,399,724 Total Current Liabilities $833,780 Robert H. Brink 4* Ellen Crosby Denise Fehrenbach Fixed Assets Elizabeth S. Brinson and Gordon K. Davies * Patricia Davies Cummings Jane Elizabeth Fellows and Philip C. Fellows * and Russell M. Cummings 9* Leasehold Improvements $26,627 Long Term Liabilities Nancy Brizendine Laurie Howard Felton and Thomas F. Felton 4* Julia B. Curtis and John R. Curtis Jr. 16* Compensated Absences, $167,568 Cecilia Brown and Herbert Braun 2* Cary S. Ferguson and Dean Ferguson Equipment net of Current Portion Sandra Bain Cushman Katharine L. Brown * Rosewita Fernandez and Lionel Fernandez 2* and Stephen B. Cushman 16* Media Equipment $230,045 Total Liabilities $1,001,348 Sumner Brown and Herbert L. Beskin Corinne T. Field 3 Furniture and Office Equipment $135,719 Lucas A. Czarnecki Computers and Software $311,254 Browne Signet Publishing * Jenny G. Fife Net Assets Victoria B. Damiani 4* Other Equipment $12,043 Henry J. Browne 2* Millie Hill Fife 2* Unrestricted $6,211,379 Nancy Coble Damon Sub-total $715,688 Temporarily Restricted $2,223,750 Dorothy T. Bryan 14* and Frederick H. Damon Elizabeth C. Fine 12* 19* Less: Accumulated Depreciation (678,935) Permanently Restricted $535,641 The Honorable L. Preston Bryant Jr. Daryl Lynn Dance 5* Nani Finley and Lowery Finley 2* and Elizabeth W. Bryant 5* Total Fixed Assets $36,753 Total Net Assets $8,970,770 L. Karen Darner * Sarah Hopkins Finley and Donald J. Finley 2* Carol W. Buckner and Murray D. Buckner Total Liabilities and Net Assets $9,972,118 Karen Davenport 2* Brenda Fishel 8* Other Assets Anne H. Burch and William F. Burch, III 2* Marty Moon and Butch Davies * Bette Flickinger and Charles J. Flickinger, MD 2 Investments - Permanently Restricted Endowment $535,641 S. Kay Burnett * Joanne Davis and Maynard K. Davis 2* Karen L. Foley and Daniel Foley * Total Assets $9,972,118 Julie A. Campbell 4 Melinda Hope Davis * Morgan E. Ford Alice P. Cannon and Jonathan Z. Cannon Elaine Day 2* Joan Seaver Forrest and Robert L. Forrest 2 Dorothy V. Carney 2 Rajiv D'Cruz Joanne R. Foster and James E. Foster 2 Kelly Carney * Jane DeBernardo * Julie Foster Jeffrey Cartwright * Pauline P. Deck and J. David Deck 3* Elizabeth Fowler and Victor Luftig Digital Scott E. Casper 9* Marion Dembling and Bruce Dembling * Leslie H. Friedman 4* Initiatives Radio & State Appropriation Carl Chappell Podcasts Ethel C. DeNeveu and Larry DeNeveu Susan B. Friedman and Frank Friedman 14% Charlottesville Opera 2 19% Federal Income Natalie Detert Elizabeth R. Fuller 6* 20% Janet Cheeseman 27% Advancement Barbara M. Dickinson 2* Judith B. Funderburk and J.Vic Funderburk 5* and Charles A. Cheeseman 2* Betty Ann Dillon 16* Joyce Funston and Gary J. Funston * Corporations/ 10% Janis Chevalier and Robert L. Chevalier, MD 9* Foundations Jane De Simone Dittmar Virginia Gardner and Stephen Gardner 2 Cultures & Community C. Rick Chittum * and Frank J. Squillace 8% 2 Nancy Garretson and Stephen L. Fisher 2* Linda R. Christenson and Eric Christenson 6* Management 12% Janet Dix 4* Clifford Garstang 3 Earned Income Allison Church Judy D. Dobbs and Robert J. Condlin Phyllis W. Gaskins and James E. Gaskins 5* 5% Restricted & 12% Diane Frances Clark and David A. Clark Unrestricted Honnor N. Dorsey 2* Leo Gasteiger Carryforward Keith Clark 3 University of Program Grants & Janie Dowdy and Roger Dowdy 2 Christopher P. Gavaler Virginia 18% Services Fellowships Marjorie M. Clark and Edward Dale Clark 4* Margaret B. Downing 4* Elizabeth Gay 7% Books & Thomas Clark 3 Individuals 5% Literature 17% Lisa M. Draine and Joel M. Schectman, MD * Georgia Humanities Council Other Income Anne Cleveland 2 13% (All Other Sources) Ellen M. Dudley and Eric Seaborg * Jennifer Billingsly and Matthew S. Gibson 10 10% Sam Cleveland 3% Douglas R. Dunkel * Shirley M. Gibson 3* Charles R. Cloud * Dianne Duperier Struthers H. Gignoux Teresa Lee Coffey and Mary A. Hostetter Gail Lavene Dussere and David Dussere * and Frederick E. Gignoux, III 2 Bobbye F. Cohen and Michael L. Cohen * Bette Dzamba and David Sellers 8 Peter A. Gilbert and Cynthia A. Char 2018 - 2019 REVENUE SOURCES 2018 - 2019 EXPENSES Judy Cohen and Ralph A. Cohen 4* $7.9 MILLION* $5.9 MILLION *The balance of income over expenses is reserved for multi-year projects.

Figures for FY19 are Unaudited *Includes restricted and unrestricted carryforward funds, and deferred income for FY19 39 DONORS ROLL OF HONOR | Atalissa S. Gilfoyle 4* Millie Herget Aileen W. Kelly 2*

Katharine Scott Jones Gilliam Priscilla D. Hesford Kentucky Humanities Council and Alexander G. Gilliam Jr. 3* and John P. Hesford Sr. 5 Catherine Kerrison Cornerstone Eddie Gilmartin 2 Shari Heywood 2 Evelyn Cottman Kessler Marjory B. Giuliano Helen M. Hibbitts and David L. Hibbitts and Gary D. Kessler 2 Society Molly Godby Mimi Elliott Hirsch * Robert D. Kidd Jr.

Janet H. Goin and Robert G. Rogers * Wendy W. Hirsh and Jay Hirsh 10 Judith W. Kirwan and Jeffrey L. Kirwan 10*

Kim Rendelson and Gabriel Goldberg 11 Susan Tyler Hitchcock 3* Roberta Kmiec and Dennis Kmiec 2* Edith Brodhead Good 4* Jean L. Hitchins and John G. Hitchins Jr. * Karen H. Knierim and R. Scott Knierim Virginia Humanities is committed to building a vital Laura Goorvitch 2 Cathy B Hix and Charles R. Hix Donna M. Knoell and Charles D. Meyer * future through planned and endowed gifts. We Betty Lou Goss and Larry Z. Goss, MD * Vicki Ingram Hobson and John T. Hobson Dorothy B. Koopman and Mark Eaton 5* recognize those who have remembered us through Arnold B. Graboyes, MD Vandivere P. Hodges and John H. Hodges 2* Helen E. Kostel and George J. Kostel * a planned gift, a simple bequest, real or personal and Kathleen B. Graboyes Carol J. Hogg and David E. Hogg 5* Enid Krieger property, or a charitable trust. As substantial, Sharon Grazier * Theodore Homyk Jr. and Mona Homyk Michelle Krowl 2 long-term gifts, they serve as the cornerstone for Sandi Green 2 Sarah Honenberger Geraldine D. Kruger and Rob Myers * the future of Virginia Humanities. Judith R. Greenberg and Christopher J. Honenberger Gail Kuchem and Kevin Kuchem and Heywood L. Greenberg 2* Dolores Horan and Harold S. Horan Barbara W. Kudravetz 2* If you have already included us in your estate plan but do not see Dana Greene 5* Lesley Howard * A. Robert Kuhlthau 4* your name listed below, please let us know so that we may thank Gerri Gribi 8 Mary A. Reuman-Redenbaugh Howard you appropriately. Lana Lambert Linnea M. Grim and A. E. Dick Howard 3* Nellie Pat Clements Landrum Carol Gronstal 6* Corliss S. Hubert and Joseph Hubert 2 Melanie Biermann and Martin I. Younker John D. Lang * Jacqueline R. Gropman Barbara Humphrys and Tom Humphrys 2 Frances H. Bulger and Alan L. Gropman 2* Gabriel Laufer * Gayle Hunter Haglund and Kurt M. Haglund 2* Lucy C. and Randolph W. Church Jr. Margaret M. Grove 2 Bonnie Cooper Law * Almeta Ingram-Miller * Tomoko Hamada Connolly Camille Gubello Page R. Laws 2* Tina Irvine Emma C. Edmunds Charles M. Guggenheimer Laura Lay and David M. Lay Timothy Isaacs Janet Eden and Connie C. Shannon 2* John M. Lee 6 Anke Jackson Doniphan C. Guggenheimer 5* Ron and Kathe Feinman and J.M. Russell Jackson 2* Joseph P. Lehman Margaret Owen Guggenheimer William W. Freehling Kathy Merlock Jackson Mary Jean Redon Levin and Timothy A. Litzenburg 6* and Joe W. Jackson 2 and G. John Levin Jr. * Barbara J. Fried Edgar J. Gunter Jr. 3* Flora Jacobson 5* David W. Levy 10* Susan Gaeta Richard B. Haines David J. Johnson Jr. 3* Peppy G. Linden 3 Virginia Geoffrey and John P. Andelin Jr. Anne Hallerman Karen Johnson Ginny Lindsey and Gordon R. Lindsey * Michael Jay Green Peggy Halliday and John Halliday 2 and Dennis L. Johnson, MD 2 James R. Lindsey Jr. 2* Jerome S. Handler Brownie Sales Hamilton Margaret H. Johnson Margaret Edds Lipper Sheryl B. Hayes and Jeffery M. Johnson Kate Hamilton and Philip Loving and Robert J. Lipper 2 Mary C. Haycox Johnson Jo Ann and Robert G. Hofheimer Jr. Susan Ford Hammaker 2 Adriana Lloyd and Pearce C. Johnson 2* Clark Hoyt and Linda Kauss Barbara Y. Hamran 2* Marilyn Lloyd 2* J. Ford Johnston Jr. and Susan D. Johnston 2* George A. Latimer Guy Handelman 2* Anne R. Loach and Donald G. Loach 3* David C. Jones Robert C. Nusbaum+ Sharon A. Harrigan John P. Lockney * Diana T. Jones * Elizabeth P. Piper and James E. Harrigan 2* Marsha Login and Ivan S. Login, MD 2 Heidi Jones * Daniele C. Struppa Christine A. Harris Tori L. Talbot and Jonathan M. Lohman 16 Lewellyn S. Jordan and Daniel P. Jordan Jr. 2* Mary Ellen Stumpf Eleanor Marie Hartless 5 Elizabeth Long * Georgia L. Joyal 2 Ellen P. and Robert C. Vaughan III+ Wendy Hasenkamp Karen R. Long and Joseph K. Frolik Sydna W. Julian and William Julian * Adam Hecktman 2 Teresa L. Long and Barry Long * Jorgen and Laura Burkhardt Vik Jeffrey Karako Sandra Hedlund 2 James D. Lott, Sr. * William and Jeanne Wiley Heather S. Karp and Ira W. Herbst 6* Carolyn Hemphill * Michael Anne Lynn * Martha R. and Richard T. Wilson III Martha Katz-Hyman * Mary Jo Dollins Hendricks Kathleen M. Lyons Elizabeth Louise Young and T. Alan Hendricks 2 Barbara Milano Keenan and Alan E. Rosenblatt * Letty Ann Macdonald Macdonald Carol A. Hendrix 25* and Robert C. Macdonald 4* David B. Keever 2* James M. Henry III Zanne Macdonald 10* Contortionist Mandkhai Erdembat started studying contortion at the age of five in Mongolia. Her apprentices and first students Ella and Emma Chuluunbat were photographed on the set of Erdembat's show, Contortionist's Seed in Fairfax, Virginia, on 3/17/19 41 DONORS ROLL OF HONOR | Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities Linda Wilson MacIlwaine Brenda A. Morris Hermine Pinson 2 Jane Vinacour Schneider Kristin M. Swenson Elizabeth Baldwin Waters and William A. MacIlwaine IV, MD * and Allan Schneider * and Craig L. Slingluff Jr., MD * and David B. Waters 2 Kelly P. Mortemousque Elizabeth Prentice Piper 9* Kathryn MacKay * and Pierre P. Mortemousque Claudine Schweber 4 Jill Sykes and Daniel E. Sykes Krista L. Weih and Kevin Quirk 2 Donna S. Pitt and Joseph C. Pitt 8* Eric Magrum 2* Shelley V. Murphy * Timothy S. Seibles Ina Szekely Lola Weir and Mark Barnhill * The Honorable Kenneth R. Plum Elliot Majerczyk 2* Lynda E. Myers 7* and Jane Plum 6* Susan M. Seidler Cynthia P. Szwajkowski Judy Weiss and Robert O. Whaley Jr. 5* and Leslie M. Szwajkowski Faye Male 2 Michael Nadler Carol J. Pollock and James A. Pollock 5 Anne Dudley Wescott Aileen Selmeczi and Gary Selmeczi David G. Taylor Edythe Manza and Louis A. Manza Christine Nardi Elizabeth Anne Powell Charles W. White * and Robert D. Sweeney 2* Beverley Martin Sessoms Jean M. Taylor 9* Sara Virginia Mariska Gail Shea Nardi 4* Patricia H. White and Stephen K. White 3* and William D. Sessoms Jr. Deborah M. Prum Jordan P. Taylor 2* Marjory B. Giuliano Living Trust National Society of the DAR Duncan M. Whittome 3 and Bruce E. Prum Jr., MD 3 Barbara Shansby * Heather M. Thomas Ann Herndon Marshall Albert E. Neale 3 Susan Wight and Richard C. Wight III * Barbara M. Raizen Jayne Shaw and Brian Shaw * and William G. Thomas, III and Richard Cappuccio 2 Amanda Nelsen and Michael B. Raizen 13* Wild Birds Unlimited Julia L. Shields 12* Suzanne L. Thorniley Laura K. Marshall and William Abrahamson Robin Randall Wildlife Center of Virginia and Howard Z. Horstman 7 Gail Shirley-Warren and Thomas E. Warren Barbara Caryl Tobey 5 Suzanne M. Nelsen Judy Rasmussen 4* Llwanda K. Williams Diane Sadler Martin 2 Mitchell Shively 7 Rebecca Tollefson Jessica Newmark and D. Alan Williams 5* Margaret L. Rawls and Sol W. Rawls III * Eduardo J. Martinez and Alexander M. Newmark * Ellen Olin Shrum Robert B. Toplin * Roger D. Williams 12 Christine Cascella Reider Nancy Martin-Perdue Michael L. Nicholls 9 Mary U. Sihler and William W. Sihler Susan S. Tremblay and Frank Reider 8* Margaret Ruth Spurlin Willis and Richard M. Tremblay 4* John E. Mason Jr. * Jill Nogueras and Peter Nogueras Jeanne A. Siler 10 and Lloyd L. Willis II 2* Alice L. Reilly and Kevin F. Reilly Laura M. Troy and Robert J. Troy * Nicholas A. Mattsson 2* Elizabeth A. Obenshain 3* Shamim Sisson and James M. Cooper 6 Eric S. Wilson Harriet Reynolds * Tom Trykowski * Gerald P. McCarthy Odyssey Allison M. Sleeman and John K. Sleeman 9 Jennifer N. Wingard Julie Richter and Douglas H. Baker 6* Betsy Tucker and Herbert F. Tucker 2* Scott P. McClure 2* Michaela Oldfield * Janet L. Smalley 2 Brendan M. Wolfe 9* Cindy Ritter and Ted Ritter * Abigail Turner and Dave Watson 2 Sarah B. McConnell and Robert R. Gibson * Helen V. Oliver and Charles M. Oliver 2* Ashlin W. Smith 2* Sharon Woltz * Eric Rizzi 5 Jack Turner Dorothy Martin McCorkle Patty Olivieri and Vincent Olivieri * Karla Smith 10* Joyce N. Wooldridge Gale Abbott Roberts and Maston R. McCorkle * Sam R. Uppala 3 and William C. Wooldridge 4* Mona Orange and Richard L. Orange 2 and William L. Roberts 2* Louise Smith Sharon A. McCurdy Rose M. Van Epp Rafia M. Zafar Priscilla A. Ord 3 Kay T. Roberts and George H. Roberts Jr. Diane W. Solatka and Michael J. Solatka 4 and Charles W. McCurdy 2* Charlotte P. Black-Van Groll Beverly G. Zinck Susie Orr Tracy F. Robertson St. James Armenian Church Anne McFadden 6* and Theo van Groll and James R. Zinck 10* Beatrix Ost-Kuttner Janet Rochester and Haydon Rochester Jr. 8* Janice F. Stalfort and John A. Stalfort, II 3* Linda A. McGee 6* Varian Medical Systems Michael J. Otte 5 Lois B. Rochester Lucia C. Stanton 5* Mary Katherine McGetrick Michelle E Venuti and Frank Venuti 2 and Dudley F. Rochester, MD * and Bradley H. McGetrick Nancy Ottenritter 4 Myra L. Stephenson 6* Virginia Department of Education Rockbridge Historical Society Katherine McNamara Martha Otto and Richard L. Renfro * Grace M. Stillwell 2* Lucie L. Vogel 2 Douglas E. Rogers Christina Mead Susan M. Overstreet Anne E. Strange and Keith Strange 9* George I. Wagner 2 and George A. Overstreet 3 Deborah Rolfe * MaryLewis Bowen Meador Lynda Strickler and Steve Strickler * Gloria Wallace 6* Amber Pace and Cyrus E. Pace * Ann R. Rooker and Dennis S. Rooker and Daniel J. Meador Jr. 2 2* Betty F. Strider 2 Sally Trapnell Warthen G. Neil Means 22* Arlene Page 7* Hubert C. Roop 9 Catha Stroupe and Harry J. Warthen III 10* Lindsey Mears S. Jean Palin and Philip J. Palin 19* Aleene L. Rose and Robert K. Rose Christine Sweeters 3 Christine Medlin and Gary Medlin 12 Parkway Quartet Christine A. Rosenquist and Eric Rosenquist Rita Roy and Jonathan R. Merril 7* Susan Parsons Rodney A. Ross David T. Michel * Anna Patel Laura E. Rossmore Elizabeth M. Michel * Henry Pawlowski 6 and Edward F. Rossmoore Betty Lou Middleditch Jill T. Payne * Whitley V. Rotgin and Charles Rotgin Jr. and Leigh B. Middleditch Jr. 9* Lydia W. Peale and John S. Peale 26* Edward W. Rucker IV * Jarrett Millard and Stephen E. Millard * Heather Peck Della C. Rucks * Joseph C. Miller 4* Susan Holbrook Perdue Carol Sacks and Robert Sacks 4* Lorna D. Miller and Eugene J. Meyung 14 and Martin C. Perdue 11 Judith P. Sams and Coy R. Sams Susan Apperson Miller, MD, and Sean Miller A. Elizabeth Perry 3 Lois Jean Harrington Sandy Raennah Mitchell 2* Marc Pessar and Claude A. Sandy 2* Erika Mitchell and Trey Mitchell 11* Jacqueline B. Pickering Shelley Sass and Michael Geisert and John W. Pickering 5 John R. Mitterling Leonard R. Scharf Jr. Jeff Pike * Lane Mitterling Virginia R. Schiappa and Andrew Schiappa David S. Pildas Judith A. Moody and Gary Moody 15* John T. Schlotterbeck Pildas-Campbell Trust 7* Gwen Moore and John C. Moore Elizabeth K. Schneider 2* Rita Dove, Esi Edugyan, and John Edgar Wideman discuss the meanings of race, violence, and freedom, as explored in their acclaimed fiction during the 2019 Virginia Festival of the Book. 43 DONORS ROLL OF HONOR |

Photo by Peter Hedlund, Virginia Humanities Here's a quick breakdown of the nearly WHAT 1,000 activities our programs and Gifts In Kind grantees conducted last year. Each year Virginia Humanities recognizes in-kind contributions from those who have hosted WE DO events, contributed artwork to the Raucous Auction, provided goods and services for programs, and promoted our programming. Their contributions help us reduce expenses, secure additional funding, increase programmatic quality and exposure, and focus on our important work throughout the Commonwealth. % 3 TV, RADIO, PODCASTS

8% WEBSITES/DIGITAL % 3 21% 2nd Act Books Natalie Detert Francesco Ronchetti PUBLICATIONS A Pimento Catering Downtown Business Association Roger Charles Sherry EXHIBITIONS Jennifer Ackerman of Charlottesville Jeanne Siler Kristin Adolfson Flanders State of the Art Janet Smiley Norma Geddes 6% Albemarle Baking Company Louise Smith Sandra Anderson Carol Gilbert Sacks SPAIN Arts & Culture Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards presented Grit Coffee Michael Suarez by the Cleveland Foundation Lyall Harris The Daily Progress HISTORIC PRESERVATION 9% Anonymous (2) Wendy Hasenkamp The Paramount Theater K-12 PROJECTS Rachel Baker Charlotta Helleberg Unity of Charlottesville % 42 3% Josef Beery Sandy Hodge UVA Contemplative Sciences Center OTHER % 5 Bonnie Bernstein Jefferson Madison Regional Library Rose Van Epp Daniel Bieker Jefferson School African American PUBLIC CONVERSATIONS Theo Van Groll Heritage Center Jeanine Braithewaite Vault Virginia Karen Johnson FESTIVALS & PERFORMANCES Carolyn Cades Village School Margaret Johnson CalmingPoints Therapeutic Massage Virginia Film Festival Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Charlottesville Radio Group Elizabeth Waters Andrew King Charlottesville Tomorrow Wild Birds Unlimited Lana Lambert Allison Church Wildlife Center of Virginia Kevin McFadden CitySpace Williams Sonoma at Stonefield Katherine McNamara Common House Jennifer Wingard Lindsey Mears 343,000 + 9,500+ 337 Congregation Beth Israel WMRA / WEMC Public Radio National Book Foundation IN-PERSON EVENT ATTENDEES VOLUNTEER HOURS WORKED COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Lee Cornwell WTJU 91.1FM Parkway Quartet Creative Framing, LTD. & The Art Box WVPT / WHTJ PBS C-VILLE Weekly Heather Peck Community Idea Stations Lucas Czarnecki Portico Church WVTF Public Radio NONPROFITS RECEIVED AUTHOR VISITS 5,200+ Dean Dass Douglas Rogers Cauline Yates MORE THAN $300K IN IN SCHOOL TOTAL MINUTES OF GRANTS RADIO/PODCASTS

RADIO/TV/PODCAST AUDIENCE 48,000,000+ In Memoriam Elizabeth Stark Barton Leonard Dreyfus The Board and Staff of Virginia Humanities remember with gratitude the following donors who passed away George K. Kudravetz Made 49 virtual Conducted 53 Robert Collier Nusbaum Live streamed during the year. Their heartfelt contributions helped to tours of historic projects with 42 public events shape our organization, develop new programs, and Robert C. Vaughan, III 49 sites available 53 K-12 schools 42 provide enthusiastic support for our work. Karenne Wood Honorary and Memorial Gifts In Memory of Carol J. Troxell Janet H. Goin and Robert G. Rogers Priscilla A. Ord Anonymous Arnold B. Graboyes Arlene Page Elizabeth R. Fuller Meredith Strohm Gunter Janet Swenson Pearson In Memory of Elizabeth Stark Barton In Honor of David Bearinger In Honor of Jane B. Kulow Betsy Bloom and Thomas A. Bloom and Bradley H. Gunter and Richard D. Pearson Kristin Atelek Camille Wells Peggy Halliday and John Halliday Louisa Barrett Brownie Sales Hamilton E. Clorisa Phillips Diane T. Atkinson and Frank B. Atkinson Brooks Miles Barnes Jane De Simone Dittmar Susan Ford Hammaker Elizabeth Anne Powell Deborah Bartle and Anne Essic Barnes and Frank J. Squillace In Honor and Memory Jerome S. Handler and Robert D. Sweeney Lee Forrester Barton Katherine L. Brown Martha J. Sims and Hunter W. Sims Jr. of Robert C. Vaughan III Stuart Hardwick Jr. John A. Ragosta, Esq., Jane E. Bowers and Gerald M. Bowers Melanie J. Biermann Anne Betts Allen Carol A. Hendrix and Elizabeth A. Ragosta Nancy Brizendine and Martin I. Younker In Memory of Constance C. Laws Susan E. Bacik and R. Andrew Wyndham James Marshall Henry III Raymond James Charitable Diane Seckora Clark Page R. Laws Faith Andrews Bedford Millie Herget Endowment Fund and David Alan Clark In Memory of Lewis T. Booker Sr. and Robert F. Bedford Jay Hirsh and Wendy W. Hirsh George H. 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Johnson Linda Wilson MacIlwaine and Nancy Martin-Perdue Emma C. Edmunds Mental Health Services Eric Stephen Wilson David C. Jones and William A. MacIlwaine, IV Susan H. Perdue and Martin C. Perdue Corinne T. Field Joseph C. Miller John T. Kneebone Ann D. Foard Lorna D. Miller In Honor of Emily A. Woodrum Gail Kuchem and Kevin Kuchem In Honor of Doniphan C. Guggenheimer In Honor of Read It Again, Sam Morgan E. Ford Susan Apperson Miller and Sean Miller Barbara M. Dickinson Laura Lay and David M. Lay and Charles M. Guggenheimer Barbara Caryl Tobey Cynthia K. Fralin John R. Mitterling and Lane Mitterling Joseph P. Lehman Margaret O. Guggenheimer and W. Heywood Fralin Sr. Marty Moon and Butch Davies In Honor of R. Andrew Wyndham Adriana Lloyd In Memory of Frank J. Riccio II Joanna V. Gabbin John C. Moore Peter S. Onuf and Kristin K. Onuf Bradley H. McGetrick In Honor of Margaret O. Guggenheimer Kristin Adolfson Georgia Humanities Council Lynda E. Myers and Mary Katherine McGetrick Charles M. Guggenheimer Carol W. Buckner Peter A. Gilbert Christine Nardi Jill Nogueras and Peter Nogueras and Connie C. Shannon and Murray D. Buckner Molly Godby Suzanne M. Nelsen Susie Orr Doniphan C. Guggenheimer Kevin McFadden Alice L. Reilly and Kevin F. Reilly David Sullivan Tracy F. Robertson In Memory of Charity T. Haines Laura E. Rossmore Richard B. Haines In Memory of Rosel H. Schewel and Edward F. Rossmore Priscilla Anne Burbank Saint James Armenian Church In Honor of Jo Ann M. Hofheimer and Michael J. Schewel Virginia R. Schiappa and Robert G. Hofheimer Jr. Priscilla C. Little and David Little and Andrew Schiappa Fred Wolf and Peggy Wolf Beverley M. Sessoms In Honor of Martha J. Sims and William D. Sessoms Jr. In Memory of Maggie L. Ingram Janet A. Ellis and John C. Ellis Jr. Martha J. Sims and Hunter W. Sims Jr. Almeta Ingram-Miller Susan Wight and R.C. Wight III John W. Stark and Jane Barbieri Stark Jill Sykes and Daniel E. Sykes In Honor of Kirkland M. Kelley In Memory of Lloyd T. Smith Jr. Cynthia P. Szwajkowski and Margerite K. Vail Ashlin W. Smith and Leslie M. Szwajkowski Harriet Reynolds Rebecca Tollefson In Memory of David G. Taylor Anne Dudley Wescott In Memory of James L. Kelly Nancy Coble Damon Virginia Association of Museums Aileen W. Kelly and Frederick H. Damon Virginia Department of Education Virginia Social Studies Leaders In Memory of George K. Kudravetz In Honor of W. McIlwaine Thompson Jr. Consortium Barbara W. Kudravetz Janet H. Miller and Edward M. Miller Mark Cline and his apprentice Brently Hilliard brought several sculptures to the 2019 Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase at James Monroe's Highland in Charlottesville on 5/5/19. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities Frank Riccio Fund was established in 2018 to honor Virginia Center for the Book member Special Funds artist and educator Frank Riccio; it supports Endowed an annual visiting book artist: the Frank Riccio In addition to donations to the Virginia Humanities Fund and our programs, Artist-in-Residence. Virginia Humanities receives contributions to giving circles, named funds, and Funds endowments that have been established for special purposes and to sustain our 2018-19 RICCIO FUND DONORS: Kristin Adolfson programs over time. George A. and Frances Bibbins Latimer Fund was Anonymous established by George Latimer in 2018 to honor Josef Beery and Gay Beery his late wife, Eastern Shore native and prominent Bonnie Bernstein and Hank Dobin community historian Frances Bibbins Latimer; it Joanna Berry Betsy and James Greene supports grant projects that document, preserve Friends of Folklife is an annual giving circle connecting Blue Whale Books, Inc. Renee and John Grisham and celebrate African American life in Virginia. Virginia Folklife Program donors of $1000 or more; it Carol Buckner and Murray Buckner Jerry Handler helps deepen and sustain the dynamic cultural legacy Carolyn Cades and Daniel Engel Charles Heiner Rosel Schewel Fund was established by an anonymous created by the program. Jim Childress and Barbara Payne Katherine Neville donation in 2019 to honor the vision, leadership and Janet Eden Susan and Paul Yesawich achievements of Virginia Humanities’ longest-serving 2018-19 FRIENDS OF FOLKLIFE: Erica Goldfarb and Adam Goldfarb Anonymous board member and Lynchburg-based educator, John Grant and Stacey Evans Bama Works Fund at the Charlottesville philanthropist and activist, Rosel Schewel; it aims to The Authors Fund was established in 2016 to support Sandra Hodge and Robert Hodge Area Community Foundation amplify the voices of, support the work of and honor the Virginia Festival of the Book’s continued excellence Angie Hogan and Kevin McFadden Lora Bottinelli the achievements of women in Virginia. in recruiting high-caliber and diverse authors to speak Ann Marshall and Richard Cappuccio Community Foundation of Greater Richmond at programs for broad public audiences. Katherine McNamara Janet Eden Nina Riccio Edna & Norman Freehling Fellowship was Sally Herman and Stephen Herman 2018-19 AUTHORS FUND DONORS: Tara Riccio established by historian and Virginia Humanities Julia McCrea Kudravetz Lawrence Bechtel Shelley Sass and Michael Geisert Senior Fellow William W. Freehling in memory of Tucker Lemon and Catherine Lemon Candie and Chuck Bruse Gioia Riccio and David J. Sullivan III his parents; it supports research and writing on Marc Lipson and Ellen Climo Melinda Davis The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation the South Atlantic region, including the Caribbean B. Thomas Mansbach Debora Hoard The Van Brimer Family Foundation South. LIssa Merrill Brian King National Council for The Traditional Arts Kathleen Lyons Emilia Galli Struppa Fellowship was created by Michelle Olson and Chris Olson Vaughan Fund for Strategic Initiatives was Cecilia Mills and Philip Schrodt Chapman University Chancellor and former Virginia Elsie Thompson and Mac Thompson established in 2017 to honor founding president Suzanne Thorniley Humanities board member Daniele Struppa in Trade Root Music Group, LLC Rob Vaughan and ensure the organization’s Judy Weiss memory of his mother; it supports research and Donna Treacy and Dennis Treacy thriving future; managed by the Executive writing in history and literary studies. UVA Community Credit Union Director, it supports strategic initiatives for Carol Troxell Fund was established in 2017 in Venture Richmond Virginia Humanities’ most pressing needs. We memory of former New Dominion Bookshop owner are grateful to the numerous donors that gave Encyclopedia Virginia Endowment was established to Carol Troxell; it celebrates voracious reading and Literary Leaders is an annual giving circle connecting to the fund this year in honor and memory of Rob support the ongoing financial needs of Encyclopedia supports a solo featured author during the Virginia Virginia Festival of the Book donors of $2500 or more; and his profound legacy of public service. Please Virginia; it was established by then-Board chairman Festival of the Book. it supports the vitality of Festival programming each see the “In Memory Of” section for a full list of Barbara J. Fried. year, including author visits to K-12 schools. Vaughan Fund donors. 2018-19 TROXELL FUND DONORS: Virginia Center for the Book Endowment supports Candie and Chuck Bruse 2018-19 LITERARY LEADERS: the Center's book-related activities; it was Elizabeth Fuller Anonymous established by donor Michael Jay Green. Clifford Garstang Astraea Cindy Hoehler-Fatton and Robert Fatton Antoinette and Benjamin Brewster Mary Huey Virginia Humanities Endowment was established Katherine Brooks and George Beller Shamim Sisson and Jim Cooper to support the ongoing financial needs of Virginia Candie and Chuck Bruse Betty Strider Humanities. Diana and Melvin Burruss, Esq. Chris Sweeters

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