upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

Martha McDonald

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2014 Art and Change Grant – $2,500

Martha will create a performance installation at The Woodlands, a Victorian cemetery in West Philadelphia. The project explores the fragile nature of memory and highlights the lineage of women who preserve family and community memories through the making of memorial handcrafts. Dressed in Victorian costume, Martha will lead the audience on a song-tour of the cemetery, singing Appalachian folk songs about longing and loss, telling stories about the lost garden, and exploring how class and social status determine who was memorialized at The Woodlands and who was relegated to the anonymity of a potter’s field.  Martha will also facilitate knitting workshops along with a performance and exhibition.

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