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Lydia Cambpell-Maher and Gavilán Rayna Russom Receive Archie Green Student Travel Award

by American Folklore SocietyAFS News, Annual Meeting News, Prizes
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Congratulations to Lydia Cambpell-Maher (Indiana University and ArtMix) and Gavilán Rayna Russom (Goucher College) who were recipients of the 2023 Archie Green Student Travel Award. The award is given by the AFS Public Programs Section in honor of folklorist and activist Archie Green of San Francisco to defray travel costs for the annual meeting. 

Lydia Campbell-Maher

The committee was particularly encouraged by Cambell-Maher’s interest and research into furthering the expanse and understanding in the areas of public folklore work, particularly the furthering of accessibility in public programming within festivals and disability culture and justice.

Lydia standing and smiling in front colorful painting made by ArtMix students

A photograph of Gavilán Rayna Russom by Elodie Adam. Rayna appears from mid chest up and tilts her head to her left as she smiles at the camera. She is a pale skinned woman with long reddish-brown hair parted on the side and a faint mustache. She wears a light pink pullover and large light pink glasses. There is a small gold "monroe" piercing above her right upper lip. She has on gold hoop earrings and a small orange necklace is partially visible poking out of the pullover's collar. She is standing in the main gallery of the Center for Art, Research and Alliances in New York City where she curated an artists residency and exhibition in the summer of 2023. Behind her, slightly out of focus and mounted on a white wall, are works by Omari Love, one of the artists in the exhibition. These include a portion of a white sheet stained with fake blood and ink across the top of the frame and two U.S. letter size sheets of paper with writing on them at the bottom right of the frame.

Gavilán Rayna Russom

The committee was impressed by Rayna due to her contributions as a public folklorist, particularly her dedicated passion, extensive fieldwork and ethnographic research into transgender and non-binary artistic expressions in communities.

Photo by Elodie Adam

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