Deb Gordon-Gurfinkel
Deb Gordon-Gurfinkel Telling It Curriculum: A model for an interactive website Offered in conjunction with an undergraduate and graduate-level course entitled “Empowering Community through Creative Expression,” Telling It uses the arts and creative writing to support the scholastic achievement, self-confidence, and literacy skills of at-risk youth. The goal of this project is to create a ...
Teresa Satterfield
Teresa Satterfield En Nuestra Lengua: Spanish Literacy and Culture Project (ENL) This pilot program between the University of Michigan and the local Spanish-speaking community seeks to close the academic achievement gap among K-3 Hispanic students in Ann Arbor through academic development in the first language. The partnership aims to enhance literacy skills and oral fluency ...
Beth Diamond
Beth Diamond Sustainable Urban Design in Shrinking Cities: Detroit and the Heidelberg Cultural Village In collaboration with the Heidelberg Project, Beth Diamond is working with a team of six graduate students in landscape architecture and architecture on a project that uses art as a catalyst for community transformation in Detroit’s hollowed-out urban core. The goal ...
Maria Cotera
La Carpa – the Mobile Memory Museum: A Project of El Museo del Norte This project team is working in their second phase to design a mobile exhibit of photos, digitized documents, letters and ephemera, and audio that will travel to key Latina/o communities in Michigan. The exhibit will be accompanied by an interactive timeline ...
Andrew Morton & Kendrick Jackson
Flint Fires Verbatim Theatre Project This collaboration was formed to address the urgency of Flint’s quality of life issues in neighborhoods that have been devastated by fires, and to strengthen university community relationships by pooling resources for greater impact. The project seeks to explore the role of the citizen-artist in urban renewal, ways students can ...
Stephen Mankouche
Project Reach – the Farm: Greening Strategies for Empowering Marginalized Urban Youth The Project Reach team is collaborating on the design of a master plan to improve ‘The Farm’, a small space located in the Catskills that will be transformed into a retreat facility. By engaging and involving the Project Reach youth in the creation ...
Regev Nathanson
Civil Participation in Filmmaking Regev Nathanson is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology whose project is located in Haifa, Israel, where he has developed a partnership with the Massada Film Collective. Together they will engage in an in-depth and reflexive process of film production for the benefit of the local community. By exploring the local challenges ...
Lara Stein Pardo
Mapping Miami: A Public Art and Archive Project about Miami’s Cultural Arts History Lara Stein Pardo is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology. She is in her second phase of a partnership with the Deering Estate at Cutler, an historic site in Miami. The primary goals of the partnership are to facilitate research, education and interaction ...
Alice Wright
Ancient Landscapes, Contemporary Communities: Archaeological Engagement and Stewardship in Western North Carolina Alice Wright is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology. She has developed a partnership with Canton Area Historical Museum in Canton, North Carolina, to explore the relationships between the Canton community and local archaeological resources, specifically how the latter lends the former a sense ...
Aimee Vonbokel
Kicked Out, Moving Up: Slum Clearance, Public Housing & 97 Orchard Street Through a summer internship, Aimee Vonbokel worked with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York to track the movement of European immigrants from Manhattan neighborhoods to the city’s outer boroughs in the 1940s. Many landed in Brooklyn among African-Americans who were ...