“I have inherited my grandmother’s face. When my grandfather looks at me he cries. When my father looks at me he smiles.” Justine Courtney-Huang, Class of 2021
LITERARY ARTS
FASHION DESIGN
Students in Literary Arts Oral Histories class interned with The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s Teen Art Connect program to record individual audio stories for the exhibition What We Hold: Youth Voices on Roots and What Matters Most. The students participated in workshops with professional storyteller, Josh Healy, and radio producer Liz Mak. Class of 2021 Justine Courteney-Huang’s work, excerpt above, was featured on official exhibition promotional materials. The audio recordings reflect the following prompting question: “What do we inherit, embody, and echo from previous generations?”
Nyah Ginwright, Class of 2018 Fashion Design, participated in an internship at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), where she explored the intersection of fashion and African American identity with five other talented high school students. Nyah presented her research to Smithsonian Scholars in Washington D.C. at the Youth Access Grant Forum. Nyah’s work with MoAD supported a multi-year project titled The Will to Adorn: African American Dress and the Aesthetics of Identity, an initiative by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT
Nyah Ginwright speaking at the Smithsonian’s Youth Access Grant Forum in Washington, D.C.
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