National Museum of American History | Paper Conservation on the Fisk Jubilee Singers diorama | In the Studio @SmithsonianAmHistory | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
Join senior paper conservator Janice Ellice Janice Stagnitto Ellis in her studio as she tells us about her work on a diorama of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, a singing group that began touring the United States and Europe in 1870 to raise money for the African American school.
This object is part of the "Who Pays for Education?" section of the GIVING IN AMERICA exhibition. The diorama was made by Diedra Bell and Stephney Keyser between 1994 and 1998 and is based on an 1873 painting by Edmund Havel.
GIVING IN AMERICA is part of the National Museum of American History's Philanthropy Initiative. For more about the Initiative, visit https://americanhistory.si.edu/philanthropy.
To view other Philanthropy Initiative videos, visit http://s.si.edu/PhilanthropyPlaylist.
Join senior paper conservator Janice Ellice Janice Stagnitto Ellis in her studio as she tells us about her work on a diorama of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, a singing group that began touring the United States and Europe in 1870 to raise money for the African American school.
This object is part of the "Who Pays for Education?" section of the GIVING IN AMERICA exhibition. The diorama was made by Diedra Bell and Stephney Keyser between 1994 and 1998 and is based on an 1873 painting by Edmund Havel.
GIVING IN AMERICA is part of the National Museum of American History's Philanthropy Initiative. For more about the Initiative, visit https://americanhistory.si.edu/philanthropy.
To view other Philanthropy Initiative videos, visit http://s.si.edu/PhilanthropyPlaylist.
