Each in their Own Voice: Artists Reception and Film Screening

Erin Bellby Erin Bell

In Collaborative Projects, Oral History.

The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University today hosts the opening reception, gallery talk, and film screenings for their latest exhibit, Each in their Own Voice: African-American Artists in Cleveland, 1970-2005.  The exhibit, featuring oral histories collected by the Center for Public History and Digital Humanities, runs through March 7th, 2009. 

A panel discussion will be held on Saturday, Feb. 21st at 2pm.

The catalog for the exhibit was released this week and it looks great.  Each of the 23 featured artists is represented with a portrait and an example of their amazing work.  In addition to their formal bios, nearly all of the artists are also represented with transcribed selections from their oral history interviews.  Be sure to find yourself a copy of the catalog.

Voices word-analysis cloud (WORDLE)

The images and oral histories will be available online shortly, so if you can’t find a copy of the catalog you can still revisit the exhibit.  Each full interview will be archived at Ohio Link, and the contents of the catalog, including artwork, artist portraits, and audio excerpts, will be available in an Omeka-driven web exhibit compiled by the CSU Library.

The full interviews can be accessed at http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/.

Erin Bell

Erin Bell

Erin Bell (M.L.I.S.) is Project Coordinator and Technology Director at the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University and lead developer for Curatescape, a web and mobile app framework for publishing location-based humanities content. In addition to managing a variety of oral history, digital humanities and educational technology initiatives, he has spoken to audiences of librarians, scholars, and technologists on best practices in web development and publishing.