Join artist Tasha Dougé and the Lewis Latimer House Museum for a series of interactive STEAM activities to illuminate history!
Women’s History Month originated from a celebration of “Women’s History Week” by the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women in 1978, and it gained national recognition in 1980. In the spirit of Women’s History Month, National Craft Month and National Kidney Month, I.H. will honor Velma P. Scantlebury, M.D., the nation’s first black female transplant surgeon and bring awareness to the kidneys through craft making.
We will discuss the role of the kidney, how many we have, kidney illness and donation all by creating light up kidneys.
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.)
Red and/ or brown tissue paper
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.