"Building A Creative Community With
Visual Art and Technology"
Recorded live on Zoom at the historic Barn House on November 1, 2020, Building A Creative Community with Visual Art and Technology at the Clemmons Family Farm was an interactive community-building arts and culture program held in our virtual Storytelling Room at the Clemmons Family Farm. We explored the role of art in our virtual community. We also discussed how technology has changed art and creative processes, and how technology and the virtual world are influencing art. Visual/graphic design artists Kia'Rae Hanron and Kenroy Walker are members of the Clemmons Family Farm’s network of Vermont African American/African diaspora artists. They share how they engage with digital technology what opportunities they see in technology as an artistic tool to promote togetherness and community.
Our guest scholar, Dr. Van Dora Williams, will provide an overview of the history of technology’s impact on our ability to communicate. She will also help us to discuss how technology and today's virtual world are influencing art.
Fostering creativity and connections!
As always, our goal was to encourage relationship-building and promote understanding across differences of race, culture and identity in an inspirational, safe, and welcoming environment. This program included an interactive community engagement where the artists invited audience members to co-create in our virtual Storytelling Room. We will also had a segment where audience members asked our collaborating artists questions.
Audience members were asked to bring paper, a black marker, and other colorful drawing utensils to the Storytelling Room on Zoom. During the program, Kia'Rae and Kenroy coached everyone in a community drawing experience based on prompts. Enjoy the photos of some of the works of community art below that were created in a short, fun engagement!
Our guest scholar, Dr. Van Dora Williams, will provide an overview of the history of technology’s impact on our ability to communicate. She will also help us to discuss how technology and today's virtual world are influencing art.
Fostering creativity and connections!
As always, our goal was to encourage relationship-building and promote understanding across differences of race, culture and identity in an inspirational, safe, and welcoming environment. This program included an interactive community engagement where the artists invited audience members to co-create in our virtual Storytelling Room. We will also had a segment where audience members asked our collaborating artists questions.
Audience members were asked to bring paper, a black marker, and other colorful drawing utensils to the Storytelling Room on Zoom. During the program, Kia'Rae and Kenroy coached everyone in a community drawing experience based on prompts. Enjoy the photos of some of the works of community art below that were created in a short, fun engagement!
Building a Creative Community Through Virtual Art and Technology is a Clemmons Family Farm production and directed by Pamela Donohoo. Lydia Clemmons, daughter of the Farm's founders and elders, Jack and Lydia Clemmons, will open the program.
The program overview and speaker bios are presented just below the video.
The program overview and speaker bios are presented just below the video.
Digital flyer, brochure and video thumbnail artwork by Kia'Rae Hanron. Doodle video by Lydia Clemmons.
Farm. Art. Heritage.
Building A Creative Community With Virtual Art and Technology at the Clemmons Family Farm was made possible with the generous donations of several Vermont businesses.
Building A Creative Community With Virtual Art and Technology at the Clemmons Family Farm was made possible with the generous donations of several Vermont businesses.
Enjoy other Clemmons Family Farm stories about life on the Vermont farm in the 1960s and 1970s here.
The Clemmons Family Farm is an African-American led 501c3 nonprofit arts and culture organization whose mission is to conserve and preserve the 148-acre physical farm, which is one of the 0.4% of the farms in the US that are African-American owned; to mobilize, lift up and support Vermont's African-American and African diaspora artists; and to build a loving and supportive community around African-American history, and the arts and cultures of the African diaspora. Your donations are tax-deductible and help us to offer excellent programs like these free to the public.