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December 2006
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LEH Newsletter
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LEH Names “Humanist of the Year” and other award winners |
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Richard Gruber, executive director of the Ogden Museum of
Southern Art in New Orleans, has been named the LEH’s
“2007 Humanist of the Year.”
“Humanist of the Year” was one of several humanities
awards winners named by the LEH Board at its Dec. 15
meeting.
The LEH annual humanities awards ceremony honors
Louisianians who have made outstanding contributions to the
study and understanding of the humanities. The 2007
ceremony will be held March 24 at Houmas House Plantation
and Gardens in Darrow, La., just south of Baton Rouge.
Tickets to the Awards Ceremony at Houmas House are $40
each and may be purchased by sending a check to the
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 938 Lafayette St.,
Suite 300, New Orleans, LA 70113. To buy tickets on line,
click here, complete the form and write in the note box that
this on-line payment is for tickets to the Awards Ceremony at
Houmas House.
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LEH Awards Grants to Organizations Statewide |
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The Board of Directors at its Dec. 15, 2006, meeting
approved 15 grants totaling $205,951 to fund public
humanities projects, arts and literary festivals, and museum
exhibitions in 11 parishes throughout the state. These grants
will go to colleges, museums and cultural organizations in the
parishes of Calcasieu, East Baton Rouge, Lafayette,
Lafourche, Lincoln, Madison, Natchitoches, Orleans, Ouachita,
St. Landry and Webster. Since July 1, 2006, the LEH has
awarded $631,451 to 44 organizations in 23 parishes.
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Teacher Institutes & Teaching American History Institutes |
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The LEH is pleased to announce four new Teacher Institutes
for Advanced Study for the summer 2007. More information
on each institute will be available in January. All humanities
teachers, librarians, principals, and assistant principals are
invited to participate in LEH’s 2007 Teacher Institutes for
Advanced Study. Three hours of graduate credit and/or 45
Continuing Learning Units (CLUs) + a modest stipend are
available for those satisfactorily completing the course.
The LEH, in partnership with Caddo Public Schools and LSU in
Shreveport, will hold the second series of summer institutes
for Caddo public school American and Louisiana history
teachers at LSU in Shreveport in June 2007. This will be the
second summer in a three-year $1 million grant the LEH and
Caddo Public Schools received from the U.S. Department of
Education’s Teaching American History program. In addition,
the LEH, working with Orleans Public Schools and Loyola
University New Orleans, will conduct four institutes in June at
Loyola for Orleans public school American history teachers.
This is the final year of the $1 million Teaching American
History grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
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RELIC: Readings in Literature & Culture |
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The winter/spring schedule of RELIC programs is available on
the RELIC link of the LEH web page. It offers an interesting
and widely ranging selection of program subjects for libraries
in all parts of the state. Of particular note are new programs
that will be tested in several pilot sites. "The Creole Identity
and Expericne in Louisiana Literature and History" will take
place in Lake Charles, Kinder, Monroe and East Jefferson.
“Battleground Lousiana: Civil War Events and Experiences”
will be available in Winnsboro, Shreveport, and Oak Grove.
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Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine |
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The Winter 2006/07 edition of Louisiana Cultural Vistas
premieres in mid-December with a cover story by Jed Horne
about Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding of New Orleans,
excerpted from the author's book, Breach of Faith, with
photographs from The Times Picayune. Other feature stories
include a history of printmaking in New Orleans by Jessie
Poesch, retired professor of art at Tulane University; a
biography of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New
Orleans, by Martha Ward; a survey of historic murals by
Xavier Gonzales that once graced the New Orleans Lakefront
Airport; an essay on the "joy of learning" by the late,
renowned historian Stephen Ambrose; an excerpt of Jason
Berry's novel Last of the Red Hot Poppas; a photo selection
from Robert Tebbs's images of Louisiana plantations, circa
1926; and a complete listing of documentary films available
for rent through the Louisiana Humanities Resource Center.
Subscribe to LCV today! Support the Humanities!
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Grants Available to Writers and Documentary Photographers |
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Writers and photographers exploring Louisiana-related
cultural topics may be eligible to receive special grants up to
$4,000 through the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
The LEH announces the availability of grants to authors
writing on Louisiana humanities non-fiction topics, such as
literature, history, languages, music, cultural anthropology,
folklife or other humanities disciplines. Grants of up to
$4,000 also are available for photographers to document
various aspects of Louisiana’s diverse culture. All awards
must culminate in a completed book-length manuscript.
Novels and poetry are not eligible. The deadline for the
publications and photo-documentary grants under the LEH’s
Louisiana Publishing Initiative is Feb. 15, 2007.
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PRIME TIME Year Ends on High Note |
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PRIME TIME concludes a record year in Louisiana and
nationwide. Ninety-one PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME
programs were implemented in 13 states. More than a third
of those were bilingual programs, targeting the growing
Spanish speaking populations across the nation. Twenty-five
out-of-state sites were funded by a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and the 66 affiliate sites
were supported by funds acquired by state entities or
individual sites.
In Louisiana, 29 sites were completed in 2006,
representing 20 Parishes. In January 2007 the first round of
spring sites are slated to begin, and 25 programs are
scheduled to run through May.
Applications for fall 2007 programs are currently being
accepted. Application forms are available on our webpage.
Prior to submitting the application, please call a PRIME TIME
staff member for a consultation. A PRIME TIME training
workshop is scheduled for August 2007 to accommodate new
team members for fall sites.
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Contact Information
phone:
504-523-4352
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