1989

Living in a community of the deaf-mute in Lima. Produce photographic essay

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Problem solving issues that affect poverty and marginalized communities In 1989, the full impact of the HIV and AIDS on Africa had not been felt. My research in immigrant communities helped me to understand the need to design culturally appropriate access points if we were to engage in economic development and to combat public health crises. I have dedicated my life to problem solving issues that affect the poverty and marginalized communities, and the Chase Coggins Fellowship was invaluable in allowing me to achieve my life’s work.

Maxim Thorne, Esq., Berkeley College 1989

Work, teach and raise money in impoverished Zulu homelands

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Work with Amigos in needy rural area. Project page for Lisa Peterson-Grace Unfortunately we have little information on this project, if you are Lisa Peterson-Grace, or have more information, please contribute!

Study how the contemporary Cree artist defines himself; both as artist and as Cree.

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Study flora and fauna and ecosystems along the north coast of Gulf of St Lawrence.

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Collecting and illustrating black folktales to produce an affordable series of childrens’ books for use in schools in Brazil.

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Photographic study of the rural Midwest – the land both rural and wild and the people.

Peter Wegner The Chase Coggins Fellowship was my first indication that I was entitled to take myself seriously as a visual thinker. I’ve attached one image from my trip. It’s a shot of almost nothing. A roadside tavern in a desolate spot. An expanse of sky. A truck, a car, two dumpsters. And, almost incidentally, a neon sign submitting the following description: WEST. A single syllable to define a cardinal direction, a philosophical orientation and a part of the country. In various ways, it is a direct and unmistakable precursor to so much of the work I’ve made over the years. One work that comes to mind is “The United States of Nothing,” a piece that inscribes, in neon over wall paint, the names and geographical coordinates for American places unified by a theme of nothingness (towns named, for example, Nix, Nada and Neutral). Or “Buildings Made of Sky,” a photographic series revealing a secret city made of the spaces between buildings found by inverting the architecture of NYC. (The works mentioned here are in the permanent collections of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, respectively.) The same philosophical and formal concerns that first appeared in my work from the fellowship continue to animate my work today. Peter Wegner’s website TED talk by Peter Wegner

The Ecology and Evolution of Calathea ovandensis

Calathea ovandensis is an herbacous flowering plant that lives in the understory of secondary forest in the Neotropics. In this project, we monitored visitations of insect pollinators, both bees and butterflies, to individual plants in several plots of Calathea ovandensis in a forest in Veracruz, Mexico. We recorded, among other things, which species came and how often they visited. I was a field assistant on the project to Dr. Carol C. Horvitz, now of the University of Miami, and Dr. Douglas Schemske, now of Michigan State University.

Carol Yoon

Study of an insect species in the tropical rain forest

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Studied roots of Afro-Caribbean music through a community in Puerto Rico

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Worked with Operation Crossroads in Health Care

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Research among the Hopi as a basis for musical composition

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Worked in Africa with Operation Crossroads.

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Eight month study of family farm life in New Zealand.

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Worked in rural health program in Bangladesh.

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Worked in development of public health services in war-stressed Nicaragua

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