Members of the WIITH team looking at photographs and documents housed in UCSC Special Collections. Center, Christina Ayson Plank (WIITH head curator and digital archive co-director). Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a prestigious $75,000 Public Humanities Projects: Exhibitions Planning grant to support a Watsonville is in the Heart project called “Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley,” an art and history exhibition set to open at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in April 2024.
Christina Ayson Plank, Visual Studies Ph.D. candidate is the WIITH head curator and digital archive co-director.