Aspasia Phoutrides Pulakis Memorial Award 2020

Bart Brashers, 2020 Aspasia Phoutrides Pulakis Memorial Award Recipient
The selection of Bart Brashers for the Aspasia Phoutrides Pulakis Memorial Award presented a fascinating opportunity to explore how a person’s daytime occupation might seem unrelated to the avocation where they spend most of their time after work. Bart was brought to our attention because of his extraordinary achievements in preserving Swedish traditional music and dance. However, an interview of Bart revealed that what he does as an atmospheric scientist touches all our lives every day and happens to have a Nordic connection, just as his commitment to cultural preservation does.

As a musician Bart Brashers is renowned in traditional music communities, both here in the U.S. and in Sweden, for

leadership in preserving the nyckelharpa, Sweden’s revered folk instrument. During the day he is a consultant in air quality in the Lynnwood offices of Ramboll, one of the world’s most respected research and development companies. It was founded in Denmark in 1945 by Børge Rambøll and Johan Hannemann who went out on the rooftop of their university building, looked out at the destruction to their beloved city of Copenhagen during WWII, and decided they wanted to start a company to help rebuild and protect society.

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The Aspasia Phoutrides Pulakis Memorial Award was established in 1983. It recognizes an individual(s) who has contributed significantly to a Northwest ethnic community and the community-at-large through efforts to preserve, document, or present that community’s culture as part of the ethnic experience in the Pacific Northwest.
 
It is presented at the Ethnic Heritage Council’s Annual Meeting.

2020 Bart Brashers
2019 Edith Christensen, EdD
2018 Christine Anderson
2017 Iraj Khademi and Estela Ortega
2016 Martha Golubiec
2015 John and Joann Nicon
2014 JoAnne Rudo
2012 Mary Sherhart
2011 Bettie Sing Luke & Lora Chiorah Dye
2010 Kristine Leander
2009 Peter Pawluskiewicz and Martha Brice
2008 Leo Utter
2007 Flori Montante
2006 Kathy Bruni
2005 Eduardo Menconça
2004 Norman Westerberg
2003 Richard L. Major
2002 Afifi Durr
2001 Sharon McBride Ritelis
2000 Sue Isely
1999 Joan Rudd
1998 Bernard “Bernie” Whitebear
1997 The Families of Jose & Norma Gomez and Juan & Marcolina Sosa
1996 Schobha Raman
1995 John Keane
1994 Lennie Meder
1993 Maria Medina
1992 Lucy Fueresz
1991 Ingeborg Hansen
1990 Ralph Hayes
1989 Rosanne Gostovich Royer
1988 Yuki Nakamura
1987 Sirkka Wilson
1986 Esther Mumford
1985 John Kovtunovich
1984 Ali San
1983 Dorothy Cordova