Hosted by Virginia Tech Rhetoric Club 

Hosted by the Virginia Tech Rhetoric Club

“Fashion, Culture, Futures: African American Ingenuity, Activism, and Storytelling” is a two-part symposium co-organized by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. (Image: A silk and lace shawl that belonged to Harriet Tubman that was given to her as a gift from Queen Victoria. In the collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C. Gift of Charles L. Blockson.)

"The FIDM Museum is thrilled to welcome Patrick Kelly scholar Dr. Eric Darnell Pritchard to our Instagram Live Collection Conversations series. Dr. Pritchard will discuss their upcoming biography of the designer, and share insights on the Kelly objects in the FIDM Museum Collection." Starts at 11am PST on Instagram. Join the conversation at @fidmmuseum. 

"What role does memory play in recording and reflecting upon history? How can recording practices illuminate shifts around our expectation of truth, help to dismantle accepted and exclusionary histories, and serve as public advocacy? Join Cooper Hewitt as we explore these questions in light of the exhibition Willi Smith: Street Couture, for which recollection and storytelling were integral to the shaping of the exhibition."