Contributors
Speakers: From the Weavers of Orlando, Karen Slongwhite Greene, Jennifer Williams, and Constance Blackmon-Lee
Diversity Week Committee: Megan Haught (chair), Amy Dovydaitis, Gaby Gomez, Glen Samuels and Tim Walker
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Keywords
Diversity speakers, weavers, diversity week, ucf, libraries, weavers of orlando, cotton, underground railroad
Description
UCF Libraries Diversity Week 2020 Committee presented Weaving History: Connecting Our Present to Our Past on October 21, 2020.
Abstract
Join UCF Libraries and the Weavers of Orlando for a virtual discussion and step into the local community of fiber arts. Local weavers and artisans will connect family histories to practices still being used today. Participants will learn about connections to cotton that came from India, and true quilts from the Underground Railroad.
Weavers of Orlando - weaversoforlando.org
Date Created
10-21-2020
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Type
article
STARS Citation
University Libraries, "Diversity Week 2020 – Weaving History: Connecting Our Present to Our Past" (2020). Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. 7.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/lib-edi/7