SISTA CIRCLE STARTS UP AT EACC
(10/2/2018)
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"The loosely structured book club is something that all the girls look forward to. It’s different from being in a classroom. The girls are free to participate as much or as little as they wish. The group usually begins with a small literary activity to ease the girls into the reading. Then they read as a group or they break off into smaller groups. Towards the end of their time, they come back together as a group to discuss."
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Amazing Student: Stephanie Toliver
(9/20/2018)
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"Stephanie Toliver is a third-year doctoral student studying language and literacy education. She recently received an Honorable Mention by the 2018 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee and is the 2018 recipient of the American Library Association's Diversity Research Grant. Toliver hopes to provide imaginative options for other adolescents to see more depictions of black youth in futuristic and imaginative stories."
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How Afrofuturism Inspired Guy and Guy Inspired a New Curriculum (4/13/2018)
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"Youth participated in a workshop with Stephanie Toliver, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia, who studies representations of and responses to people of color in speculative fiction. Our arc of learning started when Stephanie led a training with Deep staff in fall 2017. She then returned in February 2018 to work with Block by Block artists to deepen their understanding and use of Afrofuturism as a creative tool. Is it horror? Is it historical fiction? Sci-fi? The group discussed how Afrofuturism overlaps with all of these genres."
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SavArtScene: Deep Center explores Afrofuturism, ‘Black Panther’ film (3/24/2018)
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“What brought me to Deep was the investment they had in introducing diverse science fiction and Afrofuturism to the young artists,” says Toliver. “After initially talking to Keith, I realized that I’d never known anyone to be so enthusiastic about helping students in any way possible, and that includes bringing in a genre that many people, scholars, teachers, etc., relegate to the margins of reading and writing. Additionally, to have a group of teaching artists who were dedicated to learning about a new genre because that’s what their students needed was amazing to me.”
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