What I did:

I conceived, designed, and project managed a digital exhibit using Omeka, an open-source web-publishing platform, to narrate the stories of 11 female African American writers, artists, performers, and scholars who received a Rosenwald fellowship between 1928 and 1948.  

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Why I did it:

• To highlight materials in the Special Collections housed at Fisk University's John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library and to demonstrate the roles of music, fashion, literature, sculpture, painting, and dance in the production of social justice. 

• To give undergraduate students the opportunity to gain skills in metadata input, exhibit curation, document analysis, and writing (biographies and explanatory text).

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Impact:

The exhibit boosts the academic profile of the John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library and spotlights the high quality of work produced by Fisk students.

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