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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
An interview with LeAna López, member of Los Pleneros de la 21 (LP21), about the group’s American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant project, as part of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
Posted in: Community Collections grants
Posted by: Olivia Dorsey
This post summarizes the exhibition opening for "Whippersnappers: Recapturing, Reviewing, and Reimagining the Lives of Enslaved Children in the United States," created by Maya Freelon. Freelon is a visual artist and a 2024 Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Artist/Scholar in Residence.
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Posted by: Olivia Dorsey
This post summarizes presentations from CCDI's virtual Fall 2024 Awardee Project Celebration event. This event highlighted the work of CCDI's 2024 Artists/Scholars in Residence, Higher Education and Libraries, Archives and Museums awardees.
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Posted by: Donna Sokol
This is a guest post by Ava Thorpe, an intern in the AHHA program during the Fall of 2024. Transforming Education with Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: My Journey with the Library of Congress Digital Collections My name is Ava Thorpe, and I had the privilege of working on a transformative project titled “Supporting Culturally Relevant Pedagogy …
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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This is a guest post by Michelle and JW Newson on the 2024 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant project, Indian Town, of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP). The American Folklife Center’s Community Collections Grant program is part of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
Posted in: Community Collections grants
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant recipient Yvette Cohn Stoor writes about her project, Sustaining and Reclaiming Cultural Danzas: Los Matechines Y Los Comanchitos, as supported through the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
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Posted by: Olivia Dorsey
In this guest post, Jonathan Walton, a Summer 2024 Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Junior Fellow, describes the process behind creating his project, "Diversity and Multiculturalism: The Interconnected Sounds of America."
Posted in: CCDI, Connecting Communities Digital Initiative, digital futures, internships, research
Posted by: Olivia Dorsey
The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) will hold its virtual Awardee Project Celebration event, featuring CCDI's 2024 award recipients, on Wednesday, November 20th at 1pm EST.
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Posted by: Donna Sokol
This is a guest post by Emily Paterson, a 2024 Junior Fellow who interned in the Office of the Chief Information Office’s Design Division. Exploring Image Descriptions How would you describe the image above using only your words? Maybe you would mention its pencil-sketched look or describe the focused behavior of the readers. Perhaps …
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