Siobhan Mei and co-curator, Jonathan Square, assistant professor of Black visual culture at the New School, at the gallery.

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CICS’s Siobhan Mei Curates New York Exhibition on Haitian History and Culture

Rendering Revolution Exhibition poster — The poster for the exhibit. Atop this article: Siobhan Mei and co-curator, Jonathan Square, assistant professor of Black visual culture at the New School, at the gallery.

Siobhan Mei, 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 Mei’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 Friday, Feb. 15.

Mei 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, Mei will be continuing the project’s work all through next year.