A Peek Into Indigenous Furniture: Through The Eyes Of Lydia Hill
Overview
https://aims.vmis.in/caa-exhibitions/exhibition/a-peek-into-indian-functionality-through-the-eyes-of-lydia-hill/
Howard University student Lydia Hill, who received an AIIS Digital India Learning Initiative summer student fellowship, created a virtual exhibit “A Peek Into Indigenous Furniture: Through the Eyes of Lydia Hill,” that was featured in the U.S. Department of Education’s widely distributed September 2022 IFLE Newsletter. The exhibit, which is available on the Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds (VMIS) site, focuses on cultural artifacts of functionality (furniture and other accoutrements intended to accommodate bodies). It incorporates a first-person essay where Ms Hill weaves together a discussion of the particular contexts of the cultural artifacts and insights into the echoes she discerns with African-American cultural traditions and practices. The exhibit has great potential to be used as a resource for middle and high school educators to include in their classroom curricula. The AIIS DIL student fellowships, were partially funded by a grant from the US Department of Education, .
https://aims.vmis.in/caa-exhibitions/exhibition/a-peek-into-indian-functionality-through-the-eyes-of-lydia-hill/
https://aims.vmis.in/caa-exhibitions/exhibition/a-peek-into-indian-functionality-through-the-eyes-of-lydia-hill/
https://aims.vmis.in/caa-exhibitions/exhibition/a-peek-into-indian-functionality-through-the-eyes-of-lydia-hill/