The Washington State Historical Society will present the David Douglas Award to the Daughters of Hanford, an educational collaboration between Northwest News Network correspondent Anna King, freelance photographer Kai-Huei Yau, and Doug Gast, associate professor of fine arts and director of the Digital Technology and Culture (DTC) Program at WSU Tri-Cities, with assistance from DTC student interns and community members.
Daughters of Hanford is oral histories, portraits and personal archives of women who changed the World War II plutonium site, and women who were changed by it. It’s a series, a museum installation, and a radio documentary.
The Douglas Award honors projects, exhibits and digital presentations that inform and expand appreciation of Washington state history. The award will be conferred at a ceremony in Tacoma in September.