Research Fellow Valmont Layne entertains other CSPS fellows and staff during a party at the home of CSPS Co-Directors Ivan Karp and Corinne Kratz.

Photo by Anne Walker; courtesy Ciraj Rassool

Toasting the end of the academic year during a gathering at the home of CSPS co-directors Ivan Karp and Corinne Kratz. Clockwise: Research Fellows Valmont Layne, Leslie Witz, and Ciraj Rassool; CSPS Program Coordinator Anne Walker; and Corinne Kratz

Photo by Ivan Karp; courtesy Ciraj Rassool

"Frida Kahlo" of the New York-based group The Guerilla Girls speaks about "Making Trouble for Museums and Institutions" during the CSPS workshop "Cultural Battlefields: The Changing Shape of Controversy in Exhibition and Performance", held in March 2002.

Photo by Ciraj Rassool

CSPS Co-Director Ivan Karp explains the finer points of barbequing on a grill and smoking using the Big Green Egg to CSPS research fellows during a "braai" (barbeque) in May 2002.

Photo by Ciraj Rassool

Research Fellow Ciraj Rassool experiences a moment of bliss while eating a chocolate dessert at a program dinner at the restaurant Bacchanalia.

Photo courtesy Corinne Kratz

CSPS Co-Directors Corinne Kratz and Ivan Karp at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust. At right is Richard Kurin, Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. While in Washington, Kratz and Karp also visited Insitutions of Public Culture Student Fellows Josiah Mhute (who was interning at the Anacostia Museum) and Luvuyo Dondolo (interning at the Folklife Festival) as well as the two Emory Institute of Liberal Arts students completing fellowships at the Folklife Festival, Rhea Combs and Ajaya Khanal.

Photo by Zahava Doering

Student Fellow Josiah Mhute enjoys the Smithsonian's Folklife Festival, with "The Silk Road" as the theme. Josiah was in Washington, DC for the summer doing an internship at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Museum.

Photo courtesy Josiah Mhute

Helen Joannides strips bark from a tree as part of a summer camp activity at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, where she did her summer internship. This activity was in conjunction with an exhibit on residential schools for First Nations' children and was led by a First Nations man who taught the campers to use the bark to make woven crafts such as baskets.

Photo courtesy Helen Joannides