Join the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) for our 2024 CCDI Awardee Project Celebration event on Wednesday, November 20th, at 1 pm EST. This virtual event highlights the work of CCDI’s 2024 Artists/Scholars in Residence and Higher Education, Libraries, Archives, and Museums award recipients and their experiences researching and reusing the Library’s digital collections to create projects that center communities of color.
This year’s Higher Education and Libraries, Archives, and Museums award recipients include: Angelo State University, Indiana University, University of Houston-Downtown, DC Public Library, Friends of Tijeras Pueblo, and Hoboken Public Library. CCDI’s 2024 Artists/Scholars in Residence include: Dr. Allie Martin and Maya Freelon.
From creating Indigenous artwork in response to the Library’s Edward S. Curtis collection to honoring the experiences of enslaved children through visual media, each project has found creative ways to engage and otherwise respond to Library collection materials. These projects will conclude with a wide range of publicly available tools, activities, and resources including: soundscapes, a digital mural, community events, digital and physical exhibits, StoryMaps, curriculum resources, and more.
Collectively, the projects have explored over 30 Library collections and resources, from the PALABRA Archive to Sanborn Maps, to the Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories collection.
At CCDI’s 2024 Awardee Project Celebration event, representatives from each of the project teams will share their experiences, demo their final projects, and share their project outcomes. At the end of the event, attendees will have the opportunity to ask the award recipients questions about their work.
Registration is now open! Please join us and share widely with your network.
Attendees are encouraged to submit questions in advance to [email protected]. Additionally, attendees may request ADA accommodations at (202) 707‐6362 or [email protected].
CCDI is part of the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path program with support from the Mellon Foundation. This program provides fellowships and grants to individuals and institutions for projects that innovate, imagine, and remix Library materials to highlight the stories and perspectives of Black, Indigenous, Hispanic/Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and other communities of color from any of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and its territories and commonwealths (Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands). Learn more about CCDI here.
For more about the Library’s historic Of the People initiative, click here.