Raffi Wright, with the support of the Special Opportunity Grant funding, created a Musical Arts project to narrate the story of their great-grandmother’s survival during the Armenian Genocide, in which over 1.5 million Armenians were killed. This project featured five song compositions using their great-grandmother’s unpublished memoir. The project required extensive research of Wright, which sought to not only expand the borders of this powerful project, but also highlighted new and important skills which Wright felt lucky to have experienced. To conduct this research, they used the Special Opportunities grant to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. which has archival resources that were essential to the authenticity of Wright’s work; photos, testimonials, artifacts, and more are currently on display at the museum. These resources helped enrich their understanding of the Armenian Genocide, and subsequently their great-grandmother’s difficult experience.  Wright’s final presentation occurred in Spring 2022 but to learn more, you can visit their website here: (https://raffiwright.wixsite.com/vocalarts).