The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is coming to Chicago September 7 – September 28, 2019! Join the Black Metropolis Research Consortium and its member institutions: the DuSable Museum of African American History, Shorefront Legacy Center, Chicago State University, and the Woodson Regional Library for Community Curation in Chicago!
The Community Curation Program connects African American communities across generations by preserving our history and sharing stories, photos, and videos to the Museum’s online community collection. DuSable Museum's VIP Erica Griffin, Director of Education and Public Programs, has contributed her family's photographs and stories---What will you share?
Throughout the month, NMAAHC and its collaborators will provide free digitization sessions and host a series of workshops and programs on topics ranging from the history of Chicago house music to the basics of conducting genealogical research across the Chicagoland area. The program aims to encourage the preservation and intergenerational story-telling throughout the African American community.
If you are in the Chicago area, we invite you to bring your personal photographs, documents, and audiovisual materials to our events where our experts will digitize them for you. After your items have been digitized, you will receive a USB drive containing digital copies of your collections.
On select dates listed below at the DuSable Museum, NMAAHC staff can digitize a range of items— from your great-grandmother’s high school diploma to photos from your sorority chapter’s annual gala to the videotape of your family reunion. At the end of the hour-long session, we will provide a USB flash drive with digital copies of your collections.
Community Curation in Chicago-Events at DuSable Museum of African American History:
Still Image Digitization (Photos and Documents)
Location: DuSable Museum of African American History
Dates: September 7-20, 2019-Tuesday-Saturday 9am-5pm
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Moving Images and Sound Digitization (video and audio only)
Location: DuSable Museum of African American History
Dates: September 7-10:30am-12:15pm OR 1:15pm-3:15pm
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Digitizing Black Narratives featuring Angela Ford of the Obsidian Collection in conversation with Maudlyne Ihejirika of the Chicago Sun-Times
Location: DuSable Museum, Ames Auditorium
Date: September 14, 2019-10am-12pm
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Community Curation in Chicago is being held in collaboration with: National Museum of African American History and Culture | DuSable Museum of African American | Chicago Public Library-Woodson Regional Library | Chicago State University-Gwendolyn Brooks Library | Shorefront Legacy Center | For more information on upcoming events across the city please access the link here
The DuSable Museum of African American History is proud to be a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
Skyla S. Hearn, MLIS
Chief Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
DuSable Museum of African American History
740 East 56th Place
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone: (773) 947-0600 Ext. 247
shearn@dusablemuseum.org
"I like to think that my work has a universality to it. I deal with love, hope, courage, freedom, dignity---the full gamut of the human spirit. When I work, though, I think of my own people. That's only natural. However, my philosophy doesn't exclude any nation or race of people." ---Charles White
