Siobhan Meï Curates New York Exhibition on Haitian History and Culture
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Siobhan Meï, teaching faculty in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, is wrapping up an exhibition, Rendering Revolution: Sartorial Approaches to Haitian History, at the Parsons School of Design. The show, based on Meï’s digital humanities project of the same name, is a queer, bilingual, feminist experiment in digital interdisciplinary scholarship that uses the lens of fashion and material culture to trace the aesthetic, social, and political reverberations of the Haitian Revolution. The exhibition opened Jan. 1 and closes Saturday, Feb. 15.
Meï has been assisted by UMass students in the creation of the exhibit. Daniella Michel, a senior in the informatics program, helped create the digital archive, Liz Momplaisir, who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree with individual concentration (BDIC) in Black queer fashion studies has textiles and watercolors in the show and Grayson Chong, a doctoral candidate in English, has served as the curatorial assistant.
Thanks to an $11,675 grant from the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, Meï will be continuing the project’s work all through next year.
