#TALES OF CONJURE WOMAN FREE#

The exhibition focuses on the artist's assumed role through an array of works in various media. For many years, the artist has used the alter ego Fatima Mayfield, a fictitious herbalist/fortuneteller, as a vehicle to role-play and confront issues such as romantic relationships, social ills, or financial woes in a way that is open, creative, and humorous. Experience reading cursive handwriting and familiarity with 19th century (or prior) handwriting and conventions/abbreviations may be useful, as well as knowledge of scientific terminology, astrophysics data, or linguistics.The exhibition features recent work by DC-based Renée Stout, who is best known for her exploration of vestigial retentions of African cultural traditions as manifested in contemporary America. Subject Area Expertise/Special Skills: knowledge of a specific language and access to a keyboard with the characters in that language may be required for certain projects. Language: foreign languages that use non-Roman characters (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Greek/Cyrillic, Native American and Indigenous languages, etc.) and Englishįormat: audio recordings, columned data/tables, manuscripts, letters, diaries, notes, currency sheets, coins Level 5 - ADVANCEDĬontent: handwritten materials in cursive (from the 19th century or earlier) or in a non-Roman script language, audio recordings that are difficult to hear or are not in English, specialty materials/projects such as numismatics projects and the Project Phaedra notebooks A general knowledge or familiarity with scientific terminology. Subject Area Expertise/Special Skills: some knowledge of non-English Roman-character/script languages and diacritics may be useful, as well as experience reading cursive handwriting. Language: English and/or other languages that use Roman script but may require the use of diacritics (French, Spanish, German, Italian, etc.)įormat: audio recordings, letters, diaries, notes and other written materials, projects with templated fields and special instructions Subject Area Expertise/Special Skills: experience reading cursive writing may be useful Level 4Ĭontent: handwritten materials, primarily in cursive or somewhat difficult to read (predominantly from the 19th and 20th centuries) , audio recordings that are relatively easy to hear/decipher, and scientific materials Subject Area Expertise/Special Skills: none required Level 3 - INTERMEDIATEĬontent: typed and handwritten materials in cursive or printįormat: newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, letters/diaries/notes that may include annotations or margin notes Subject Area Expertise/Special Skills: none required Level 2Ĭontent: mostly typed, handwritten in print, or otherwise very clearly written/readableįormat: memorabilia, advertisements, image captions, telegrams, diaries, letters, notes He was successful all his pursuits-passing the bar, opening a stenography business, and publishing essays in nationally-ranked magazines including in “The Crisis.”Ībout Project Difficulty Level 1 - BEGINNERįormat: letters, diaries, flyers, pamphlets, and one-page documents Soon after, Chesnutt moved to Cleveland where he began to study law and stenography, and to write fiction. In 1878, Chesnutt married Susan Perry and moved to New York City with the hope of escaping the prejudice of the South. He became the assistant principal of the Normal School in Fayetteville, a historically black college now known as Fayetteville State University. He started at the Howard school, which was founded for black students by the Freedmen’s Bureau. After moving with his family back to North Carolina in 1872, Chesnutt began working as a pupil-teacher at the age of 14. Chesnutt’s paternal grandfather was a white slaveholder, and he could have “passed” as a white man and legally been considered white in the South but chose to identify as African American.

#TALES OF CONJURE WOMAN FREE#

Chesnutt (1858–1932) was born in Ohio to free African Americans formerly enslaved in North Carolina.

Tales of conjure woman