2022

	Research for photographic project about the Connecticut River and its rich history from early European settlement to 19th-century industrialism to protected land
	Research for a series of bronze sculptures that will visually identify with scrolls and parchment manuscripts
	Research for concert/lecture which focuses on early 19th-century lutherie in New England
	Research for non-fiction picture book for school-aged children about the life and work of Ruth Henshaw Bascom, a 19th-century folk artist
	Research for novel that follows the lives of two people fighting for freedom and trying to restore their lives after the Civil War	I came to this project nourishing an idea for storytelling to help me better know the interior lives of people whose unheard stories are pushed to the margins of public records of historic moments. Often, I found public archives exacerbate silences, and I wondered about the lives of Black women during the 1800s and how the stories of that time were passed from one generation to the next. So, my project began as a search through archives. Sometimes the archives revealed names—a first name or nurse name—but little else. Therefore, I sought to write the stories of women I could not know.
	Research for Non-Fiction picture book for school-aged children about the life and work of Ruth Henshaw Bascom, 19th-century folk artist