Public Memories, Collaborative Archives: Mapping the History of the Washington Corrections Center for Women

Tanya Erzen (UPS)

Students from the Washington Corrections Center for Women and the University of Puget Sound will come together to map the histories of the incarceration of people at WCCW since it opened in 1971. This project provides an expansive perspective on the history of the incarceration of women in Washington and a way for scholars inside and outside the prison to explore questions of the archive, public memory, and how gendered and racialized assumptions are central to the history of incarceration. June 2022 Progress Report

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Reed College and Liberation Literacy

Dustin Simpson (Reed), Nathalia King (Reed), Simone Waller (Reed), Monica VanBladel (Reed), Shishei Tsang (Reed), Aditya Gadkari (Reed), Tim Bardot (Reed)

Partners from Liberation Literacy and Reed College will develop a long term relationship to create a regular series of collaborative courses and extracurricular events in Portland, on campus, and inside the Columbia River Correctional Institution. Students will practice humanistic inquiry with Liberation Literacy members as they come to better understand the college's relationship to the wider civic unit and the social challenges facing the city. June 2022 Progress Report

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Counternarratives: Confluence Project, Maya Lin, and Beyond

Lucy Cotter (L&CC), Ben Murphy (Whitman), Matt Reynolds (Whitman), Libby Miller (Whitman)

This project contributes to the legacy of the Confluence Project by expanding on its archives creating a new exhibition that brings together further archival material with relevant works by (Indigenous) contemporary artists. The new exhibition will make space for young Indigenous voices and provide an immersive exhibition with audiovisual and material exhibits that make the significance of the Confluence Project tangible for a broad public. 

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FLOW: Art and Ecology in a Changing Climate

Cara Tomlinson (L&CC), Elise Richman (UPS)

FLOW invites experts in place-based knowledge from the Salish Sea area and the Columbia Basin Confluence Project to create a small gathering to share material knowledge practices and understandings of how to listen and learn from local ecologies. This gathering will serve as the first step in a longer project of creating an Art and Ecology public symposium and exhibit that will bring together community partners, educators, and students in the Cascadia region. June 2022 Progress Report

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FLEX Mentorship Program in Humanities: Fostering Learning and Embracing Excellence

Mimi Duncan (UPS), Renee Simms (UPS)

FLEX is conceived as an academic-based mentorship program exposing high school students students from historically underrepresented groups in higher education to different disciplines within the humanities. Students in the program will learn about professions that are possible with a humanities background and will be mentored by peers and faculty located in multiple departments. The goal of the program is to excite and educate students and their guardians about the relevance and importance of humanities education to engaged citizenry and professional life. June 2022 Progress Report

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'Become a Community Climate Leader' Course

Katja Alpeter-Jones (L&CC), Amy Dvorak (L&CC), Kristopher Imbrigotta (UPS)

The long term goal of this project is to develop a course entitled "Become a Community Climate Leader" that brings together high school students from frontline, urban, and rural communities from the northwest. Collaborators will educate 40 community climate leaders each summer through a weeklong course and will provide ongoing mentorship, logistical support, networking opportunities, and peer support events throughout the subsequent year. June 2022 Progress Report

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Learning from the Unhoused

Sammy Basu (Willamette), Joyce Millen (Willamette), Heather Kitada Smalley (Willamette), Jeremy Miller (Willamette), Kayleigh McCauley-Sayer (L&CC), Katie McGuire (L&CC)

Through college collaboration, this project aims to develop student-centered public health programming with community partner organizations that serve the unhoused. Collective efforts will center on bringing to bear the distinctive modes of the humanities and arts, namely, representing the causes of homelessness and the benefits of specific interventions through narrative and expressive means, in ways that are affirmatively human-centered and humane. June 2022 Progress Report