by Lisa Rathje | Sep 13, 2022
we were going to be elders just because we were still around and i was going to listen to you on a panel we didn’t feel qualified for and hear you talk about your guilt for still being alive when so many of your friends were taken y suicide by AIDS by racist police...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 9, 2021
This community program puts African American adornment traditions at the heart of our media literacy program. Many of our lessons begin with an activity about a particular type of adornment and then we look critically at how that tradition is depicted in various...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 9, 2021
AS220 Youth is a free arts education program in Providence, Rhode Island, serving young people ages 14 to 21. AS220 Youth has three teaching sites: our downtown Providence studio, UCAP Middle School, and the Rhode Island Training School, the state’s juvenile detention...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 9, 2021
Afterschool 5th‐ and 6th‐grade students in KID smART classes at Akili Academy in New Orleans were part of the Smithsonian’s Will to Adorn Youth Access Program during the 2013–14 school year. Over the course of the year, students studied adornment, style, and culture...
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