Workshop Format
\nW e will begin with a brief overview of the Museum and its collections prese nted by Lydia Fraser\, the Sandy Spring Museum Archivist and Collections M anager. We will then turn to our brief presentations by our panelists\, fo llowed by a general conversation. \;
\nAbout the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies (CLCS)
\nThe CLCS is sp onsoring a year-long initiative\, \;Public Humanities: Research &\; Enga gement\, that supports six projects and will culminate in a symposium on 5 May 2023 \;
\nAbout Sandy Spring Museum
\nSandy Spring is the center of a unique Maryland community\, a network of rural villages. \; Among the first permanent settlers\, c. 1720\, were members of the Religious Society of Friends\, also known as Qu akers. Sandy Spring Museum has a host of archives from 19th-c Maryland\, p articularly records that indicate a range of exchanges and experiences amo ng and between Black\, white\, and Indigenous populations in the area. &ld quo\;At Sandy Spring Museum\, it&rsquo\;s all about the community. Everyth ing we do\, every milestone we celebrate\, every program and exhibit is he re for the community and because of the community. The museum is a place w here people can develop meaningful connections by exploring community hist ory through the visual\, literary\, and performing arts. In recent years w e have evolved from a traditional history museum into a dynamic\, particip atory cultural arts community center.&rdquo\;
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\nAbout the Speakers:
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Annemarie Mott Ewing \;is a Ph.D. Candidate a t the University of Maryland. Her dissertation\, "Citizenship and the Coun terfactual Imagination: Race\, Exclusion\, and Redress in the Literature o f the Long Reconstruction\," explores the way Reconstruction writings use the counterfactual to depict the undecided\, malleable nature of citizensh ip.
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\nYolanda Hester \;is an in dependent public historian\, writer\, and curator\; and co-founder of Fram eworks and Narratives. \; Oral history figures significantly in her wo rk and research. \; She has worked on projects for Arthur Ashe Legacy at UCLA\, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs\, The Center For Oral History Research\, KCET\, The Phillips Collection\, and The National Urban League. \;yolandahester.com.
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\nCa leb Hurley \;is a senior at the University of Maryland\, Coll ege Park pursuing \;an Honors English and Literature B.A. with a Creat ive Writing minor. For his honors thesis he's currently composing a collec tion of short stories that explore the social\, political\, and physical d eaths of Black people (specifically African American men) and how those ex periences cascade from father to son\, casting Black people as the quintes sential \;absurdist figure. He has a great passion for all narrative f orms including literature\, film\, music\, and video games. He believes in the preservation of these forms as our shared cultural record. He plans t o continue expressing his curiosity for the world through future narrative endeavors as he has a foundational belief in the power of storytelling. A belief that storytelling has the greatest potential for: social\, cultura l\, and artistic innovation\, while also building community.
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\nMaria Vivar-Guzman \;is Library Associate with Prince George's County Memorial Library System. Born in Mexico and ra ised in the United States\, as a library employee I work to provide resour ces to the community\, but especially to our Latinx and refugee communitie s in the county. As a native Spanish speaker\, I have become passionate ab out helping our teens and adults through art and language programs\, but a lso through outreach and digital literacy.
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