Mode of Program Participation
Performances and Arts
Participation Type
Roundtable
Session Title
Local Knowledges Exhibit
Session Abstract or Summary
In fall 2016, Virginia Tech students in the the graduate seminar "Research Methods in Material Culture & Public Humanities" learned hands-on skills from a range of community partners in southwest Virginia. Meet the students and those who taught them about beekeeping, butchering, quilting, tattooing, chair bottoming, brewing, crocheting, building pots, and carving bowls. A series of display windows on the second floor of the Squires Student Center details how these skills are tied to local histories, spaces, and social networks.
Presentation #1 Title
Local Knowledges Meet and Greet
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
This informal gathering brings together the students who prepared the Local Knowledges exhibit and the community partners who taught them a range of hands-on traditional skills. Participants will reflect on what they learned during these mini-apprenticeships, an experiment in community-based experiential education.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Danille Elise Christensen is Assistant Professor of Public Humanities at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. Trained as a folklorist, she studies the social meanings of vernacular expressive culture and organized the Local Knowledges exhibit.
Local Knowledges Meet and Greet
This informal gathering brings together the students who prepared the Local Knowledges exhibit and the community partners who taught them a range of hands-on traditional skills. Participants will reflect on what they learned during these mini-apprenticeships, an experiment in community-based experiential education.
