Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

Digitizing Black Curatorial Practice: Dr. James Washington, Jr. at MOHAI

Digitizing Black Curatorial Practice supports the Winter 2023 exhibition at MOHAI about the works and world of Dr. James Washington, Jr., the Black Mississippi-born artist who spent most of his life living and working in Seattle’s Central District. Rooting this project is the development of a microseminar -- engaging in Black and Digital Curatorial Studies -- to query how digital tools animate and extend the exhibition’s display, history, aesthetics, and community engagement, and how interactive spaces themselves act as sites of archival work, historiography, and anti-racist curatorial practice.