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.
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.
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.
In this guest post, Janiya Peters, a Summer 2024 Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Junior Fellow, describes the process behind creating her project, "The Gin in Motion: Examining the Cotton Gin Through Sound and Narrative."
This post is an interview with American Folklife Center staff who are instrumental in the preservation of Community Collections Grant project collections, as part of the wider Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
CCDI's 2024 Artists/Scholars in Residence, Maya Freelon and Dr. Allie Martin, participated in a panel discussion and led workshops at the 22nd Annual Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival.
American Folklife Center's (AFC) Nancy Groce announces a new AFC archival collection, the Warp and Weft of Yap’s Outer Islands: Backstrap Weaving in Micronesia, as supported through the AFC's Community Collections Grant program of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
On June 24, the Library of Congress hosted the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative’s (CCDI) Summer Fuse event! A recording of the program is now available in two parts: CCDI 2024 Summer Fuse Part 1 and CCDI 2024 Summer Fuse Part 2. The hybrid event celebrated CCDI’s 2024 Awardees and brought together the awardee’s project teams, …
This blog post features an interview with Dr. Allie Martin, a 2024 Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Artist/Scholar-in-Residence about her project, "Sampling Black Life: Soundscape and Critical Intention." In the interview, Martin discusses her participation in the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival, the Library of Congress collections she is using in her work, and the significance of amplifying sonic Black life.
