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| Judy Selk Flores
Adjunct/associate Researcher
RFT-Micronesian Area Research Center
University of Guam (Guam)
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About |
Retired University of Guam professor currently following passion of revitalizing the historic village of Inalahan, Guam, where she grew up. Founded and runs the G.Flores History Center in a 100-year-old building, sustained by a Chamorro wood-burning oven (Hotnu) bakery selling traditional breads. Also as a professional artist, she creates and maintains paintings in windows and doors of abandoned buildings in Inalahan - THE PAINTED HISTORY WALK. Serves on the Guam Council on the Arts & Humanities board of directors, focusing on program planning for Guam's hosting of the Festival of Pacific Arts 22 May - 4 June, 2016. |
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Discipline(s) |
Art History
History
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Member of |
European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)  |
Geographic places |
Micronesia
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Historical periods |
Lapita and the Austronesian expansion
Ancestral Oceania
First and Early contacts
The Colonial time
20th century
21st century
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Indigenous languages |
Chamorro |
Experiences |
Applied Research (1992 to now)
— Guam Preservation Trust, Guam Visitors Bureau, Arts Council
Inalahan Heritage Tour includes natural and manmade historical and cultural sites in the municipality of Inalahan in southern Guam - assisted development of Gef Pa'go Chamorro Cultural Village since 1992; created and maintains G.Flores History Center, Hotnu Bakery, Painted History Walk; and promotes Inarajan Garden House, a vacation rental garden retreat and event venue.PhD Research (1995 to 1999)
— Sainsbury Research Unit, U of East Anglia
Chamorros of the Mariana Islands are reclaiming their histories through revitalization and reconstruction of traditional arts. Issues of reconstructing an ancient past. Identity, Decolonization |
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