Join artist Tasha Dougé and the Lewis Latimer House Museum for a series of interactive STEAM activities to illuminate history!
Did you know that May is National Inventors’ Month & National Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month?
Celebrate the work that inventors do to shape our society and improve our lives. Illuminating Histories will highlight some of Lewis Latimer’s inventions and honor the work of Hong Kong chemist researcher Vivian Yam Wing-Wah’s work on OLEDs (Organic light-emitting diode). We will identify where OLEDs exist in everyday items and shine a light on inventions we value in our own lives together while we learn about new inventors.
lluminating Histories is a family-friendly virtual STEAM workshop series by artist Tasha Dougé in collaboration with the Lewis Latimer House Museum. It seeks to shed light on the hidden legacies of Black historical figures through innovative, immersive artistic approaches and applications.
Audience:
All ages welcome
Families welcome
Materials:
Please have the following materials available:
A light source
A picture of your favorite invention
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.