Georgia Wier, Colorado Folklorist: Georgia Wier will serve as a humanities advisor on the Dutch Hop
tradition and practitioners, especially as it occurs in Colorado, for the editing phase of this film project. She
will also serve as the liaison between the film crew and the archival facility at CSU. She will have an
administrative role in this project as well. Georgia worked as the Northeast Regional Folklorist for the
Colorado Council on the Arts for 10 years ending in 2007. She began her documentation and support of Dutch
Hop during that period. Georgia served as the primary fieldworker for “Dutch Hop Polka: a Tri-State Project
Documenting and Presenting a Regional Tradition,” a 2010-2011 project produced by the American Historical
Society of Germans from Russia with NEA funding. Georgia received an MA in folklore from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Oregon. She authored “Colorado Has
Been Real Good to Us: an Oral History Project with Japanese Americans in Weld County, Colorado,” a chapter
in Oral History, Community, and Work in the West edited by Jessie l. Embry and published in 2013.

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