Join artist Tasha Dougé and the Lewis Latimer House Museum for a series of interactive STEAM activities to illuminate history!
February is Black History Month, originating from 1969 when Black educators and students advocated for black history in the U.S. to be honored, before it became federally recognized in 1976. In the spirit of Black History Month and National Library Lover’s Month, LLHM’s Virtual STEAM Workshop Series: Illuminated Histories™ will honor Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, for whom the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is named after.
Participants will be invited to reflect on the discourse of libraries, then identify libraries and black knowledge institutions in their neighborhoods. They will create paper cutouts from a word “library” and make shadows with the library of lights in their homes.
Audience:
All ages welcome
Families welcome
Materials:
For this workshop we suggest participants have access to a dark room, ie: bathroom, closet, or ability to close curtains. Please have the following list of materials ready:
Assorted paper (plain, construction, origami, etc.)
Scissors
Pencils, crayons, or markers
A dark room
About the artist:
Tasha Dougé is a Bronx-based, Haitian-infused artist, artivist & cultural vigilante. Her body of work activates conversations around women, advocacy, sex, education, societal "norms," identity and Black pride. Through conceptual art, teaching, and performance, Dougé devotedly strives to empower and to forge broad understanding of the contributions of Black people, declaring that her "voice is the first tool within my art arsenal."
She has been featured in The New York Times, Essence and Sugarcane Magazine. She has shown nationally at RISD Museum, The Apollo Theater & Rush Arts Gallery. Internationally, Dougé has shown at the Hygiene Museum in Germany. She is alum of the Laundromat Project's Create Change Fellowship, The Studio Museum of Harlem's Museum Education Program, Haiti Cultural Exchange’s Lakou Nou residency, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s Innovative Cultural Advocacy Program and their inaugural Digital Emerging Artist Retreat.